>Stanley Fish on the impact of the recession on higher ed, after his
>department had to slash 49 planned hires to 18:
>
>"And what about me? How do I feel about operating in a regime of scarcity
>(temporary, I hope) after almost three years of entrepreneurial frenzy?
>Well it has its pleasures, rather like the pleasure (on the
>obsessive-compulsive side to be sure) of cleaning up your desk after a
>bout of intense and almost narcotic writing, or the pleasure of pruning a
>manuscript of self-indulgent length, or the pleasure of finally getting
>through that pile of mail and identifying the debts and obligations it
>brings even if you can't quite take care of them."
>(http://chronicle.com/jobs/2001/10/2001101901c.htm)
Wow. Will Stan sell one of his Jaguars too, just in the spirit of the times?
By the way, he was excellent the other night on the O'Reilly Factor.
Doug