Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:55:41 -0500 (EST) From: Joseph Flanagan III <flanagan-AT-odin.english.udel.edu> Subject: Re: Fwd: letter E. Said This is not to be meant as an attack on Said, or even an attack against tenure, but it seems hard to believe that someone in his position really needs tenure. Surely, someone of his stature would be picked up by another institution, with little negative effects to either his reputation or salary. But what about those who don't have tenure yet? What protects THEIR academic freedom? I just don't buy the "if it happens to someone like Said, it can happen to anyone." It seems that people rally around celebrity cases like this to obscure the fact that academic freedom, like much else in the profession, is not a universal phenomenon. Joe --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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