I'm no longer an academic, but I taught for 15 years and missed it too. I wasn't exactly looking, but I only even heard of a couple cases. --jks
>From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Academic perks
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
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>
>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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