Uromania

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:

> ... are there academics proper (and/or improper, even?  Far more likely ...)
> "here," at least in any ongoing, active capacity?  Hard to tell.  I can't
> imagine anyone, tenured, seeking tenure, or one day hoping to be seeking
> tenure, much less interested in responsible scholarship or whatever,
> engaging in the not-all-too-elegant nastiness by which we seem to pass much
> of the time here.


You mean the selection committee might stoop to combing through the  
archives to predict who may be particularly abrasive in faculty meetings
and such. However aren't the most dazzling prospects generally assumed to
be somewhat difficult in the 'personality' department? I think the more
likely hesitancy would be of publicizing your ideas for fear someone else
might proceed to exploit them before you got around to doing so. 

			P.