>“I am sorry, I am not going to be able to simply talk about research. I just learned that my tenure case was denied.” He looked at me & said instantly: “But if

>“I am sorry, I am not going to be able to simply talk about research. I just learned that my tenure case was denied.” He looked at me & said instantly: “But if your case had been approved, who in the senior faculty would have won?” He understood the game. My mistake was thinking I was a player when I was a pawn. I don't get it, the entire piece is a man old enough to qualify for tenure discovering that politics exists in academia? Written in the prose style of a Dan Brown novel? Could have at least given us the meat of the story here about what actually transpired because I honestly can't take that at face value