Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: The purpose of Universities Message-ID: <2426@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 18:39:48 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2426 Posted: Wed Oct 23 18:39:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 08:03:51 EDT References: <699@bu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation Lines: 26 ["You save my life, Captain Buffalo! Have a CIGAR!"] > Excuse me, as a person involved in a University, exactly what did we > 'purport to sell'? ... Your entire attitude ... I find offensive. > Sorry sir, grow up. Yes, we make 'em literate *you* do the job > training, and when that ceases to be, we all lose badly, if you don't > believe that, try to look beyond your spreadsheet and short term > employment needs. ... try to get a person with a poor education to > read a book or solve an abstract idea at all, they'll laugh at you and > go on living in their sadly limited little worlds. ... It's disgusting > the way these attitudes have currently created a climate where > University funds have all but dried up and fat-cats from industry are > swinging their pocketbooks in ways that only governments should be > allowed to like drunken sailors in a whorehouse on payday. ... > > -Barry Shein, Boston University Don't be fooled! Barry Shein is a dockhand who dropped out of school at age 10. He got so smart by reading books and solving abstract ideas! 8 |-) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva