Who Would Fardels Bear?

By Dr. Sam Armato

Who Would Fardels Bear is a story of corruption in unlikely places, university administration, which revolves around a deans memories of childhood abuse and his misplaced revenge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493160037

Dr. Sam Armato

My career has educated me on the vastness of our country. I started out in Brooklyn, N.Y. where I attended elementary and high school. I was drafted into the U.S.Army in 1944 and spent two years in various army bases as well as in Germany. After being discharged I went to Columbia University under the G.I.Bill of Rights, received a Batchelor’s and Master’s degree there and then went to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where I taught for three years. I then went to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where I received my Ph.D. I was recruited by USC in Los Angeles to teach in the Comparative Literature and English Department and taught there since 1964. I lived in Manhattan Beach, CA. during that time and still reside there with my wife in close proximity to my three children all of whom have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavor. My son Leonard is a brilliant lawyer and a Sports Attorney who has cultivated the image of Shaquille O’Neal into a multi-dimensional national personality. He was Shaquille’s manager for many years. Other clients include Ronnie Lott, Oscar De La Hoya, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. My son John Peter Armato is a distinguished Internist and is among the most important authorities on diabetes, its prevention and its cure. My daughter Antonina is a song writer producer who has written :chart” songs for Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez as well as Mariah Carey. My wife Nancy is an outstanding Real Estate Broker who knows the South Bay and Los Angeles in general better than anyone. We all live in Manhattan Beach, CA. Thus I have completed a continental pilgrimage from N.Y.C. to the Midwest and finally to California on the West Coast. Dr.Sam Armato

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Commencement speech, President Cartwright—morning

We are here today to celebrate the university experience and what it means in preparing us for the world we are about to enter. We have learned to collect and evaluate evidence before drawing conclusions based on that evidence. In other words we have learned to be objective. That’s the real value and the consummation of the process. We at the university tried to instill these values in you in our courses and by our example. We are what we think we are. And if we think we are objective and do not prejudge we will live by those intellectual virtues. We must examine the entire range of moral, ethical and political options closely and without any predisposition for embracing any one of them. Again we are what we think, but what we think must precede what we become, that is our identity or what we are. If you take nothing else away with you today as a legacy of your university experience you must embrace the principle of objective, examined truth. You will positively influence the society you enter if you carry these principles with you, and the assumption is that the message will infiltrate the rest of society as well.

Office of the Dean of Humanities—

int.

Office of Dean of LAS. Deans Weber and Cline

Dean Cline

He really knows how to instill traditional values in the graduating class. Presumably they will be ready for the world they enter once they graduate. The problem is they won’t be ready for the villains out there, those likely to abuse the innocent unsuspecting victims. You know. The scurrilous misfits. I don’t suppose it would be appropriate to inject this disagreeable morsel of reality into an otherwise palatable academic repast. This generation of graduates will find out soon enough. Speaking of misfits, we are going to have to start working on that misfit Spavento, who really doesn’t belong in a research university. He just doesn’t seem to be interested in publishing. I don’t know how he got tenure, that obscene and stultifying university policy that has made too many incompetent professors survive. So be it. But we’ve got to demoralize him by insisting on his inadequacies. When he seems to be vulnerable, I’ll tell him you want to see him, and then you can work on him.

Dean Weber

Good. Get started and then let me know when I can call him in.

Cut to:

ext. Two professors walking on campus, Spavento and Spender:—morning

Prof. Spavento

It’s probably true. Most university professors do favor liberal points of view. As a matter of fact a David Horowitz wrote a book identifying the professors he insisted not only have a liberal bent but they try to inculcate their views into their students The Professors:101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (2006) actually identifies the professors he deems dangerous to America and its political system. This is a strange reversal from his Stalinist days when he virtually worshipped Stalin, the communist icon (perhaps a legacy from his parents who were both registered communists). Today he has taken up the cudgel Herbert Hoover (as well as Ronald Reagan)wielded in the 1960’s against the free speech movement at Berkeley and who believed that communists had infiltrated the university faculty and were indoctrinating impressionable young minds. He has become a reincarnation