Steve
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
>
> >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
>