Re: Cap's bad old days :)

blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:17:40 -0500 (EST) 

Nah, I didn't mean to imply You were a greedy academic, just making
observations about academia in general.  What you're doing for your
students is very good, but they have to be in your class to begin with. 
That's the true nature of a higher educational system that decries the
evils of capitalism by demonizing the people that have the wealth, means
and willingness to support charities to begin with.

While college presidents still run from big business to big business, a
hat in one hand and the other held palm out.  Thank God the businesses
keep giving, eh?

Woah, Alice Walker got published too?  Add her to a list that includes
Hurston and Maya Angelou.  Looks like there really is a market out there
for welfare moms...

Talent -- no, genius -- finds a way in any system, and more often than
not it's a pretty difficult way.

(I'm not denying that it was much easier for a John Cheever or a JD
Salinger than for Angelou or Walker...but again, that's true across all
systems as well.  Every system will always favor some and make it more
difficult for others.  Our system, because of the attitudes of the
educational elite, actually has produced a market large enough to support
the art of the dispossessed in our society to at least some degree. 
That's a credit both to educators and to our system. . .).

Jim

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:53:50 -0700 (MST) WILL HOCHMAN
<hochman@uscolo.edu> writes:
>Thanks Jim, but I'm not tripping over myself but with Alice Walker's 
>ideas
>and some imagining...as for your cash cow tude, I happen to be working 
>on
>a book of my best student's stories and have been editing it for free,
>gratis, just to help a good writer polish and finish a fine book.  I'm
>glad you've got me all scoped out as greedy academic since I'm working 
>on
>leaving my tenured position directing a program to follow my wife in 
>her
>career.  I'll keep my eye out fo talented welfare mothers and try and 
>stay
>off the dole myself, will
>
>On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, blah b b blah wrote:
>
>> Will, if the next JD Salinger were a 20 year old woman on welfare 
>she'd
>> have academics like you tripping all over themselves to discover her
>> first :)  Talk about a cash cow. . .I can see it now.  First, the 
>little
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:38:17 -0700 (MST) WILL HOCHMAN
>> <hochman@uscolo.edu> writes:
>> >Camille, I enjoyed and supported your critique and think it does 
>> >belong on
>> >this list...Holden and his suticase incident for one thing, make me 
>
>> >think
>> >Salinger was likely to understand wealth as part of our culture's
>> >vulgarity, and I think you are smart to know that there's more to 
>the
>> >marketplace than merit...
>> >
>> >Ever read "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" by Alice Walker?  
>Does
>> >anyone realize what art is lost to poverty...the next J.D. Salinger 
>
>> >may be
>> >on welfare and caring for three kids before she's twenty.  
>> >
>> >will
>> >
>> >
>> 
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