Have you ever been forced to do something you know that you don’t need to do? At least you’re not like John Kallam. There is an urban legend that this man, who had worked in criminal law for years, written several books on criminology, and had even been an investigator in the Nuremburg trials, got a job at Fresno State College (California State University, Fresno today). Since he only had a bachelor’s degree, the college forced him to get a master’s degree or lose his job (which the school rudely explained that they were actually doing him a favor, as they were making the rest of the teachers get doctorates).
So our dear John Kallam enrolled out-of-state, figuring that three months of seminars and nine months of intensive study at home would get him his degree. But, ironically, the textbook he needed to use in the class was a textbook that HE wrote.
Hey–stranger things have happened, right? But don’t you just love the irony here?
To read more about this… http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/textbook.asp
