organizing college footballers

[Peter Kosenko]

Similar, by the way, was true for UC Press copyeditors, except that the income stream wasn't there.  The same impoverishing page rate was in force for about 13 years that I know, the premise being that non-Ph.D.s or grad students of English should feel priviledged to be picking oakum for professors who can't write as well as they do or don't pay attention to detail.  You would think that they would have stopped making excuses and just raised the necessary funds to subsidize publication of things that aren't big sellers (if they were worth publishing).

Peter Kosenko

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From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:39:04 -0500


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>Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 19, 2001
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>UCLA Football Players Turn to United Steelworkers for Advice on 
>Improving Conditions
>By WELCH SUGGS
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>The United Steelworkers of America is advising a group of current and 
>former football players at the University of California at Los 
>Angeles, who are organizing to fight for stipends, better health 
>insurance, and job training from the National Collegiate Athletic 
>Association.
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>CB: One of the most open and gaulling forms of exploitation of youth in the U.S. is the ripoff of college athletes based on the amateur theory snafu which goes something like " oh, we can not let you young people be sullied by filthy lucre, so we wise college dons will just have to take all the $$$$$$ ". 
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