Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 -- -----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/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information