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2013-11-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-27 05:51|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Odds any different in getting a tenured job in academia than getting a place on a pro sports team? Seem to recall the denunciation of high school and college sports as leaving the lads short in practical skills for life when the music stopped. Doesn't seem much different in spending countless years in pursuit of a doctorate in obscure and low demand studies to find one without practical skills for life when the music stops too.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-27 08:04|| 2013-11-27 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Tenure today is becoming a rare thing in academia. In the early 1900s, professors were held in high regard--before most of them went way left and beyond. I have a little trouble drawing the analogy between academia and drug gangs--there are not many parallels. Recently, I read a letter to the editor by a purple heart marine, a declared conservative with a Ph.D. He said universities are reluctant to hire conservatives--there's just no real diversity anymore.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-27 08:19|| 2013-11-27 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 P2k, you can't fool people about your sports qualifications.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-27 10:57|| 2013-11-27 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Walking towards the communal coffee (free range trees, beans collected from monkey shit) pot, I knew my cover was blown. Sometimes things just happen. So I turned to face them, crushing my Lucky underfoot into the newly (looks like old Oak) refinished floor. Seeing a first opening I took it: "This room stinks of Ikea".

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-27 22:36|| 2013-11-27 22:36|| Front Page Top

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