One way to get tenure

Remember Mrs. Ralph, from The World According to Garp?

Florence Cochran Bowlsby, who was best known to Garp as Mrs. Ralph, would live a life of larkish turmoil, with no substitute for sex in sight-or, apparently, in need. She actually completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature and was eventually tenured by a large and confused English Department whose members were only unified by their terror of her. She had, at various times, seduced and scorned nine of thirteen senior members--who were alternately admitted to then ridiculed from her bed.

I heart Mrs. Ralph. I haven't stop laughing, at various points of the day and out loud, since I recently re-read Garp. (Not to worry, I am still also re-reading Eat Love Ni-na-ni-na Bleak Anna.) She "was eventually tenured by a large and confused English Department whose members were only unified by their terror of her." Hee hee heh heh HEE. Oh how the thought of such a thing warms my little black heart.