Academic perks

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Oct 15 12:55:57 PDT 2001


On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, joanna bujes wrote:


> ...and raised his children...only to be dumped for an adoring grad student
> ten years later.
>
> Didn't happen to me, but watched it happen with great regularity to others.
> I have even been told that one of the real perks of academic life is the
> adoring booty.
>
> Joanna
>

You know, I keep hearing second and third hand stories about this. I've been teaching in colleges and universities for about 12 years now, and I've completely missed out on the "adoring booty" (as have all my colleagues). Is this an English department thing? Ivy league college thing? What?

Miles



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