Academic perks

[Jeffrey Fisher]

um, nope. seen it. and they don't always leave their wives for an adoring
student . . . sometimes it's a religious order. seen that more than the
former, actually, and not confined to either english depts or ivy schools. i
suspect it happens more than gets reported and less than we sometimes think
it does, but it happens. it's real.

otoh, there was a certain phenomenon in my union organizing days (TA union,
if you count that . . . which i do :-) that we used to call "horizontal
organizing." you can imagine, i'm sure, and i doubt *that's* confined to
grad student unions, either . . .

j


> From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:28:14 -0500
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: RE: Academic perks
> 
> 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
>