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>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:07:20 -0600 (CST)
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>Subject: RE: Re: #5986.7 Response from David Maxwell (!)

Could it be, as I have stated, even though I still disagree with
President Maxwell, that "constructing the body" and other items of
lit and sociocrit (which I find in the Drake catalog) are not on most
student's "todo"
lists?

I have been under fire for well over 10 years for my criticism of the
swarms of neo-derridian druids who have taken over many departments
and have tried to keep the "teacher types" out, or have made sure
they don't get tenure.  I must say that administrators are partly at
fault for hiring people who are likely to make publishing glib, silly
articles and monographs their number one
concern.

I wish President Maxwell luck, and I will be the first to praise him
if his experiment works out, but I still think it will be impossible
without skilled in-house language
specialists.

TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D.
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee-Martin
http://globegate.org/french/globe.html
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