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Also, I got distracted earlier and forgot to mention something. I find it interesting that if River has only recently a professor (from our most recent point of view), then the Doctor being erased from the databases has always been coming. Otherwise she would not have been able to "officially" become a professor, being too busy stuck in prison. Yes, some prisons offer education, but "professor" tends to imply that she's done some sort of teaching in her own personal timeline, as well as there never being any evidence that Stormcage houses such programs. (Nor does it seem very likely to me that they would, honestly.) Even if they did, I can say with a high degree of certainty that they would not then let her teach. [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:24, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | Also, I got distracted earlier and forgot to mention something. I find it interesting that if River has only recently a professor (from our most recent point of view), then the Doctor being erased from the databases has always been coming. Otherwise she would not have been able to "officially" become a professor, being too busy stuck in prison. Yes, some prisons offer education, but "professor" tends to imply that she's done some sort of teaching in her own personal timeline, as well as there never being any evidence that Stormcage houses such programs. (Nor does it seem very likely to me that they would, honestly.) Even if they did, I can say with a high degree of certainty that they would not then let her teach. [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:24, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | ||
River was a professor & was not a prisoner when we first saw her in ''Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead'' (in which she died). As far as I can remember -- & someone's sure to say if I'm wrong -- that story & ''The Angels in Manhattan'' are the only ones in which she's been Professor, not Dr, River Song. The oldest of the Rivers in ''Last Night'' presumably was a professor, as she & the Doctor were about to leave on their last tryst before she went to the Library, but her title wasn't mentioned. | |||
As an aside, some US viewers may be missing the significance of the title because they don't know that, in British academia, "professor" is a high academic rank -- head of department or thereabouts -- not just "someone who teaches". | |||
Being Professor River Song means she has a departmental chair (head of department) or a personal chair (same rank but without the burden of admin), which generally requires much more than "some sort of teaching". She must be well established in her field, with plenty of high-quality research to her credit. (I was 89 not long ago but I'm 78 now.) --[[Special:Contributions/78.146.184.166|78.146.184.166]]<sup>[[User talk:78.146.184.166#top|talk to me]]</sup> 21:13, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | |||
