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[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 06:14 PM 6/1/01 -0700, Dennis R. wrote:
>That's not quite how it works in the humanities, where grads don't cook up
>vats of research results and then deliver these in a box to the
>superstars; the superstars write their own books, and the profits made
>from publishing a humanities book are pretty feeble compared to any
>managerial textbook. What you get is a class struggle over the
>distribution of teaching-time, as it were: the serfs do the entry-level
>teaching and go crazy correcting papers, while the superstars get a
>limited amount of time to work on Great Theory, and hone their skills
>teaching to a limited audience of grad students, and both face off against
>the university system as a whole, which as we know is just another
>business.

Do not forget RAs doing endless bibliography searches and summaries for
their superstar advisors, or superstars "borrowing" ideas from grad student
papers.

wojtek