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title: 'Snark and the Chronicle'
date: '2005-05-20T04:15:12-04:00'
permalink: /snark-and-the-chronicle/
tags:
    - academia
---

[Here’s](http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i37/37a00701.htm) something I wouldn’t quite have expected to see: the Chronicle of Higher Education actively making fun of an institution of… well, higher education. (Subscription required, alas; I’ll try to post an open link as soon as one exists.)

Not to say they didn’t totally deserve it. But I bet public relations officers the academy over are now rethinking the Chron’s place on their automatic mailing list…