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From: bondc@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Clay M Bond)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting privileges
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Date: 10 Mar 89 23:32:36 GMT
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Reply-To: bondc@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Clay M Bond)
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I would support Mr. Baird's postition that the purpose of
a College (or University) is twofold.  I do wonder where
he has been, however, if he is indeed shocked by attitudes
that Universities exist for the students (read, undergraduates.)
It is not only the prevailing attitude amongst students,
but also amongst the non-University community (such as the
state legislature.)

Mr. Baird's assumption that *research* is some sort of
domain owned and operated by faculty, however, is ignorant.
What, Mr. Baird, do you think Ph.D. students are doing?
And any assumption that faculty research is somehow more
valid than student research (particularly since in so many
cases what passes for faculty research is student research,
though not cited as such) is a ridiculous statement which
may fool the undergraduage, but certainly no graduate student.

Please, Mr. Baird, I am not impressed at all that you are
faculty, nor that you have a Ph.D.  Some of the most stupid
people I have ever met are tenured faculty at some University.
Has it been so long since you were in graduate school, or did
you not have the basic intelligence to see throught the initials
when you were there?  Or are you just overly impressed with
yourself?

And please do not make pompous statements about language when
you so obviously do not know the difference between denotation
and connotation.  Adictionary enntry has nothing to do with
language, and one with such sterling credentials as yours I
would expect to know that.

Though your initial posting did, admittedly, score some sympathetic
response from me, your pomposity overrode anything you might have
had to say.  So you're faculty?  Who cares?  Piles and piles
of blatant stupidity, both on Usenet and in the form of research,
are belched forth every year by faculty.  Being so doesn't get
you any automatic respect, nor does it get you an intelligence
bonus.

What it does do is make your pomposity all that more intolerable.

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