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I don't recall this dynamic on any topic of substance. Either an unimportant issue was completely hijacked by this kind of foolishness or we more or less stayed on topic.

I was mostly on committees comprised of STEM faculty, though.

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Yeah, I never really encountered this at department/college level committees, mostly composed of people with econ backgrounds. First time encountering it is on the university-wide committees.

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The closest I've been to that was grad student senate, but obviously nothing of any importance was discussed there.

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Probably because academic departments are extremely sorted samples of people, applying strong filters on interests and personality.

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