[meteorite-list] Tucson 05 Retrospective

[DNAndrews]

Hey Geoff,
I think we have our new Jackass Award Winner for next year.  Very 
disrespectful "story" indeed.

S. Ray DeRusse wrote:

> Greetings List;
>
>    Well, imagine our surprise when we read the thread below. I had a 
> personal conversation with the Dean of the TCU geology department in 
> which he informed me that among other things, Dr. Ehlmann was "barely 
> a geologist and not a very good one at that". He also called him, "an 
> old man just waiting to retire," just a menial curator of a meteorite 
> collection doing no real research". He said more but I don't 
> necessarily agree with everything he Dean said. But it matters not 
> much since in my view this award has very little meaning attached to 
> it because of the group handing it out. Was there some sort of 
> election or nomination procedure involved or posted somewhere? How 
> does this little favoritism scheme and showering of affection work for 
> a group who even his colleague has bad mouthed him this way. Did you 
> include the Dean's viewpoint ? Or did you gather together willy nilly 
> to keep misconduct and racism  a fertile nesting ground in planetary 
> science?
>
>> We're going to make a special "Jackass of the Year" certificate for 
>> the person who stole the award, and we'll leave it out on the table 
>> next year, so be sure to steal that too. Thanks.
>>