Survival of the Witless
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Survival of the Witless is a card game
produced by Avalanche Press
about tenure
. Released in 1997, the game was created due to Avalanche Press founder Mike Bennighof's anger at being fired from his teaching job at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
for winning a teaching award as an untenured professor.
Survival of the Witless was Avalanche Press' hottest selling game, but as of 2007 is out of print.
Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...
produced by Avalanche Press
Avalanche Press
Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. An extremely prolific company, they have produced many respected contributions to the wargame community, most notably The Great War at Sea and Panzer Grenadier series, as well...
about tenure
Tenure
Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have his or her position terminated without just cause.-19th century:...
. Released in 1997, the game was created due to Avalanche Press founder Mike Bennighof's anger at being fired from his teaching job at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
for winning a teaching award as an untenured professor.
Survival of the Witless was Avalanche Press' hottest selling game, but as of 2007 is out of print.