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"Why did I say yes to the Dean when he asked whether I would take on this position? He made the request/offer to me a week after calling me to let me know I had tenure -- he claimed that this gave me a fair shot at saying no."
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Squabbling over how much more a college graduate earns than a high-school graduate. This completely ignores quality-of-life issues.
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"The most important information on doctoral programs is available to academics and reporters alike, if only we would look: dissertations."
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With pictures of Sly Mongoose in progress...
In the name of compassion require a decade of immediate unreimbursed national service from every (elitist) college graduate. Graduates of Colour would be excluded, of course. One could satisfy national service by instead donating an organ or serving in politics. America would thus be saved - and we would no longer tolerate rural Mexicans working in the fields like Samuel Maverick's 1624 Massachusetts labor force.