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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (787499)	6/7/2014 10:45:26 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1576882

Hi J_F_Shepard; Re: "For a freaking stipend? Are you nuts????": In academia, the word "stipend" is used for students. Don't recall hearing it used for professors. But what I was told is that: The reason academic politics is so sordid is that the stakes are so low. You can google the phrase, I didn't make it up. And the same morals academics bring to their political fights (who gets which office, etc,) they also use on their research. And while wages are relatively low in academia, these are not people who can easily obtain a lot more money in industry. Sure they say they can, but they really don't want to do that. There's always a few who make the transition. In physics, the ones who make the most money are the ones who are hired by Wall Street to analyze derivatives. In fact, some of blame the various melt downs on bad physicists. But a lot of academics are incapable of living in the real world. Not getting tenure would mean working at McDonalds. They like the prestige of the position they have and they will fight like anything to keep those jobs. -- Carl