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From: stern@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Defending Nassau Hall
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 01:54:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 01:54:54 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!stern    Feb 19 15:43:00 1985

[flame on]

I can't resist.  The people who accuse peter and gary of nonsense
are really making a great impression on us observers:

scc!steiny asks:

>But will Princeton graduates find it easy to get jobs
>at companies that subscribe to USENET?

Yes.  I had no trouble.  Strange thing, though.  Nobody ever
asked me about Princeton's contributions to USENET.  Hmmmmm....

Any company that bases its judgement of a person based on the actions
of other people should have its recruiting procedures examined.  
To say "Gee, Biff graduated from Princeton in EECS, so he must be
a Professor X clone, and Professor X has the personality of wet cement,
so Biff must be like wet cement as well" demonstrates a rather severe
case of brain cell damage.  In saying that the statements of one person
immediately represent the personalities, attitudes and opinions of
everyone else at the same net-site, you sound extremely ignorant.

Something tells me that having Peter Honeyman on the faculty of
Princeton's CS department could hardly be bad public relations for
the university.  If the great PR powers in Nassau Hall decide that
I am wrong, and that Professor Honeyman is personally destroying
Princeton's reputation, then I will burn my Princeton degree and
immediately apply to Dave's Discount Technical Institute (free
toaster with each application).  

arnold@gatech adds:
>It seems that the really important thing to remember about Princeton is that
>it is the "Ivy League" school which will hand Brooke Shields a degree.

At least she was accepted.  And when somebody with a brain decides that
Ivy League is no longer a proper adjective describing Princeton, Penn, 
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth, and should be enquoted, 
please tell me.  I wouldn't want to be grammatically incorrect.

Please direct all flames to:
Hal Stern (class of '84 honey-worshipper)
{ihnp4, harpo, ima}!inmet!stern