{"id":1977,"date":"2025-05-03T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:25:06","slug":"slaughterhouse-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Slaughterhouse Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A common problem for our Heads of Houses in Oxbridge is the little mistakes that unaccountably slip into their curriculum vitae or press releases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it happens, no-one really knows — simple clerical errors by their PAs, enthusiastic auto-correction by the computer, or maybe their cat trampled over the keyboard at a critical moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problems of Kerris Bowles-Ottery<\/a> have been generously overlooked by the Fellowship of St Judas College after his explanation that a vindictive ex-lover had doctored his cv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we hear of a spot of bother for Wendell Lacksworth, the Master of Slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendell Lacksworth graduated with a Class II degree from Oxford and then obtained a PhD from the University of London. Of course, there’s no shame in that. Degree class is in any case a mediocre predictor of attainment in academic research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the public announcement accompanying his elevation to Head of House reads “Professor Wendell Lacksworth, DPhil(Oxon) has been appointed to the Mastership of Slaughterhouse…<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small point, perhaps? Indicative of a lingering sense of injustice that all those years ago Wendell was denied a PhD place at Oxford because of a second-class degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More seriously, there is a connection between insecurity and poor behaviour, like bullying. This is well-established in both psychology and everyday observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often, academics act aggressively to hide or compensate for their own feelings of inadequacy. It’s a coping mechanism for low self-worth or unresolved emotional issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s why those little mistakes in curriculum vitae are actually well-worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 21 Group emphasises that this is a work of fiction. Any similarities to actual persons, whether living or dead, or actual events are purely coincidental<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A common problem for our Heads of Houses in Oxbridge is the little mistakes that unaccountably slip into their curriculum vitae or press releases. How it happens, no-one really knows — simple clerical errors by their PAs, enthusiastic auto-correction by the computer,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t