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Dear Friends:

    It's gratifying to see so many people "get it." Now, if we could just start a movement (perhaps the Larry Summers Anti-Massacree Movement"? Just a thought) we might be able to persuade some college boards of visitors and their prexies to give a few of these tenured twits a short lesson in reality-based academia.

    Lord, I'm such a cockeyed optimist ...

PS - I don't know how many top-level tenured guys and gals teach at most universities, but apparently at Harvard it's minus two or less ... Hopefully, the smaller, less prestegious schools are not following the leaders.

 

posted by Rarmcwa on September 16, 2006 at 8:20 AM | link to this | reply

Great post, Rarmcwa, a points taken. And after the academic intelligentsia

have refused to pass on their bit of knowledge, and the faux intelligentsia (from inflated grades and undeserved degrees) become the academic leaders and professors?

posted by saul_relative on September 16, 2006 at 12:12 AM | link to this | reply

Doesn't that fall into....

their notion that "There are no losers?"

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 15, 2006 at 6:32 PM | link to this | reply

Ah. Perhaps that is why they are adding "new Ivies."

Pretty lame if everyone gets honors. Then again imagine being one of the few who don't...how bad must they have done? Or did they just get on the wrong side of someone? Not pay their tuition in full?

posted by FactorFiction on September 15, 2006 at 6:29 PM | link to this | reply

An excellent read.......

It would beinteresting to see what percentage of undergraduate classes there are taught by graduate assistants.....

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 15, 2006 at 5:59 PM | link to this | reply