Re: concern
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 15:27:53 +1000
> The July 31 Chronicle of Higher Education headline read:
>
> Academic Warns Americans Against Taking Positions at Australian
> Universities" and on a nearby page is the story, "New Zealand Urges
> Student Drinkers to 'Just Say Forget It': Universiteis use ad campaigns
to
> combat a long-standing tradition in the country"...I might ask "what's
> going on down there? Is there some truth to scottie's teasing?"
I had no idea there was anything of the sort going on here ... all I can
imagine this is refering to is that we have a dreadful government in power
at the moment (who, thank God, should be gone by the next election) who
besides funneling money away from the arts like water out of a reservoir
have issued major cuts to universities, which as a consequence are short
staffed and unable to pay the staff they have very well. To paraphrase REM,
everybody's hurting ... I stress though that it's certainly not an issue of
choice; Australian academics are just as loath to have to take positions
overseas rather than at home as you'd imagine they'd be. Did you read the
article? What exactly was it about?
I agree with you though that a list of this nature should not feature
Americans or Australians, blacks, whites, gays or what have you ... it
should contain Lovers of Salinger's Literature, no more, no less. As given
the ... universality (for want of a less controversal word) of his themes,
I should think there is a lot of diversity amongst his readers, and thus us
bananafishers.
Camille
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