Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:57:54 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Thanks (and no thanks)


At 9:25 AM -0500 11/6/97, John Lye wrote:
>Stirling Newberry wrote, "Tenure is to the university what inbreeding is
>to the aristocracy."
>
>Tenure is the cornerstone of the peer review system.  It protects
...
>students, and bad for the state of knowledge.
>

Every group regards the priveledges which protect their interests as being
essential to the continued strength and survival of the common good.
Aristocrats inbreed because they believe that they are superior to those
outside and that allowing bad breeding in would destabilise the entire
structure.


Stirling Newberry
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