UC Berkeley Robbing Poor Ethnomusicologists

[Tedium]

I know, bud. I was making a funny lol.

Sorry, Tedium. I know better than to get upset, but I just don't think it was all that funny. For the past 60-odd years, I've been a fan and student of various kinds of off-mainstream music - primarily early Blues, Cajun, Roma (Gypsy), some African - and North American folk music in general. 

I'm not a musicologist. Just not qualified -at all. Strictly an amateur. But I have many books written by musicologists and they have greatly helped in understanding the background of what I hear - and try to play. Their contributions are to be respected. They are not to be mocked. 

I'm sorry to hear about the news from UC Berkeley. But thank you for informing me.

Poor choice of words. I apologize. I was more intending to mock the fact that I was posting it at all, because the news would probably not be of interest to anyone on this board. My apologies.