ANUS sacks two music professors
NewsThe Australian National University School of Music in Canberra, no stranger to controversy, has outdone itself by dismissing two long-serving teachers, the violinist and violist Tor Fromyhr and the cellist David Pereira.
ANUS says they were appointed incorrectly. They are being offered re-employment as casual labour.
This is the National University of Australia, remember.
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Is this the most unfortunate acronym ever? Not sure I should google them….
This acronym has been created here. Check them out and you’ll see that they designate themselves as ANU School of Music.
So more correctly: “ANUS Music”
Care for another plate of beans?
At least the League of American Orchestras had the sense to change their name (formerly ASOL – the American Symphony Orchestra League).
It’s up there with the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Yes, and they’re not even retentive at that place!!
ANUS?
Sometimes, people do make @rses of themselves.
I think we need to get to the bottom of this one.
I’m behind you on this one. This is just too cheeky. Must’ve been named by some bum.
Some bum who is clearly the butt of all jokes!
What a, name! Nearly as hillarious as the Queens’ Annus Horrible speech!
Ah, yes. The famous Annus Horribilis of 1992. To put it another way, an @rse of a year.
Just naughty boy using clever words to shock the adults.
LUBE (Laughable University Bogus Expulsions) will be performing a deep probe into how these two fiddlers were yanked from their positions.
Hard times down under in ANUS
Well, this headline just has to be included in the “Best Ever” compilation.
One of my favourite Simpsons episode is when Homer founds the pressure group Fathers Against Rude Television.
The University of North Texas (known as UNT) has a radio station wisely known as KNTU.
My inner Beavis and Butthead are cackling like crazy people, thanks a lot. I kinda needed this this morning.
I should expect a buttload of comments from your German audience.
Are we sure they weren’t involuntarily and explosively expelled from the ANUS?
“Casual labor”. Sounds like American academia’s Adjunct Professor. No permanent contract, no benefits, lousy pay. Gee what a surprise from the academic world.
Basically yes, instead of being a professor they are now a lecturer so to speak..which means paid hourly with limited hours and no benefits.
This is the last time I read this website with my grandson!
Oh please. ANU and SOM are the two institutions here. Australian National University and School of Music (a faculty). ANUS makes no sense whatsoever. It’s never had that acronym. Prior to being absorbed into the ANU, it was an independent tertiary music institution named The Canberra School of Music, founded in 1965 by Ernest Llewellyn. The 1400 seat Llewellyn Concert Hall within bears his name. Upon the building of the then new and still current premises in 1976, Llewellyn enlisted the help and advice of his good friend Isaac Stern for curriculum expansion. Some of that was based on the Juilliard model.
Quite. If that acronym was a joke, it was forced and puerile.
I can imagine WA Mozart participating very cheekily in this discussion.
It makes one pucker just thinking about it.
One might suppose that ANUS are sole agents for musical actitivies there…..
SD consistently resorts to using sensationalist headlines for clicks, while the boomers chime in with cringe-worthy puns. The term “ANUS” is misleading; it actually stands for the ANU School of Music.