Academic perks

[Forstater, Mathew]

I agree that in my experience it is something that you hear about second
and third hand but never see.  A senior colleague at another institution
once remarked to me that "you know you're getting old when you find
yourself more attracted to the moms at Parents Day than their daughters"
or something like that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Jackson [mailto:cqmv at pdx.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:56 PM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Academic perks

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