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| | Jessica thumbs her nose - Jessica Mitford at California State University at San Jose - first printed in Winter, 1974-75 ... |
 | | We have, to quote Jessica, "gathered the sordid belongings - the squalid parcels and gear" from her room at the San Jose State Faculty Club and are driving in my car between San Jose and her home in Oakland. |
 | | It is mid-December, the beginning of the Christmas recess at San Jose State, and Jessica Mitford has been informed that, at the close of the present semester, she will not be rehired as Distinguished Professor of Sociology, which job she has held since September. |
 | | Because she has refused to comply with the California State College rule that all teachers in the system must be fingerprinted, she has been fired or, as the Dean of Social Sciences, James Sawrey, puts it - to Jessica's immense delight - "dehired." |
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