Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] declining quality of writing
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun Jun 27 06:47:02 2004

I would love for our college (better yet, academia in general) to define
academic freedom. Every year, at least one person at my college
exercises it as the right to do anything you want and not to do anything
you don't want (like say...teach). 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Leonard
J Kapner
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:09 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] declining quality of writing

I know. I've tasted the wrath of small minds many times. But tell me, if
there's no catalytic impetus to change that which is clearly wrong, how
do
we as an industry deliver on the academic excellence that we tout to the
na?ve students we teach and the belabored parents who sacrifice to
finance
their children's ascent into adult society?

Len

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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jeffery
Smith
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 7:56 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] declining quality of writing

Get someone angry at you in academia, and they will hate you for a
lifetime. Kissinger said that politics in academia are vicious because
the stakes are so small. He's right.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Karen
Nakamura
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:11 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] declining quality of writing

>If I were teaching in such an environment, you better bet I'd be making
all
>kinds of noise at faculty colloquies about such a wrong-headed
strategy.


One would, if one had tenure.

Until one does, one does not make waves in a place where a slight 
that took place in the faculty dining room on March 17, 1953  is 
still remembered and talked about.

Such is life at a small college.

Karen


-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
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