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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:39:14 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: terry goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: comparative poco lit


I often use Pooh as a source of wisdom, why not? Especially in reaction to
one more attack which said that the problem with academe is the
specialized critical language. If there is one thing Pooh shows is there
are different modes of discourse and different wisdoms to get from them,
if one just remains open to them. In my experience that openness remains
the primary attitude and interest of graduate students in literary
studies.
The lament at lack of funds and mega-debt is constant and getting worse,
with rising fees and--at least at my university--no comparable rise in
income. Which is the reason the TA's (primarily graduate students) are on
strike at York. The administration seems to believe that graduate students 
don't have to eat. I had few job prospects back in the seventies but my
scholarship and a very easy TA job actually paid my expenses.
That being said,  I find very few PhD students today or in the past whose
primary interest is the employment at the end. Unlike, for example, people
in law school.
terry

Terry Goldie
English Department
York University
North York, Ontario
Canada
M3J 1P3
voice: 416-604-3670
fax: 416-736-5412
email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca




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