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To: LindyBill who wrote (89758)	12/8/2004 5:43:25 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) of 793896

Speaking as a conservative academic, one who is now and has been for most of his career, I can vouch for the major points in this most interesting article. I survive and survived more than 40 years in academia by doing what most of my conservative colleagues did and still do: I learned to use humor, satire and occasional sarcasm to get my conservative views across in the liberal and leftist academic communities in which I was privileged to serve. I discovered that one can make a point much better and have it considered without instant rejection when it is offered in the sweet tasting bunn of humor. I also, in the later stages of my career, had the advantage of rank and tenure status to keep the younger wolves at bay. Even when they disagreed with me, and they most often did, they had to play the game of academic courtesy, especially if I happened to be on a committee with had the power of life and death over some of their projects and prospects. Quite a game that one learns to play. Politics at its worst and practiced by the best. What a life. My favorite question: Why are faculty politics so fervently intense and bitterly engaged? Answer: Because the stakes are so small.

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