Re: pedantic chit chat [no looping]

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

Title: Re: pedantic chit chat [no looping]

At 6:03 PM -0400 5/22/01, Tom Ritchford wrote:

> gee, no one ever ripped me off in
> Academia like the Real World.

It happens. Academic raiders are just less likely to use lawyers to do it.

> of course, it's been a very long time
> for me, perhaps it's all
> changed now?

Same as it ever was, I think (though it's been a while for me too).

Academicians have been "sampling" each other from the beginning:

>
> Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form
> of politics, because the stakes are so low.
> -Wallace Sayre
>
>
> "University politics are vicious precisely
> because the stakes are so small. "
> - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
>
> As Villa trenchantly points out, "Perhaps the
> conflict seems so strong because the stakes are so low." (as
> cited in Affleck, Allen, & DeLoatch, 1997).
>

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