Great Rant in the Irish Times

REPSOC1916

May as well have a laugh during this dark time for all of us.

Pity the poor fools in UCD though some of it is applicable to us.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0501/1224269475580.html

Denerick

Fair play to Tom Garvin. If anyone has had the pleasure to read one of his books, he has a penchant for a great polemical line or two.

Groinshot

My favourite bit is that he was a professor in UCD

Prof.Badass

Down UP with this sort of thing!

delta_bravo

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0506/1224269791606.html

Heres the retort to it. Hes right and he is wrong in a way. Universities are now run like businesses but I think its unfair to say that thought and research is not regarded as important anymore.

Openmp

delta_bravo wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0506/1224269791606.html

Heres the retort to it. Hes right and he is wrong in a way. Universities are now run like businesses but I think its unfair to say that thought and research is not regarded as important anymore.

By arrogantly dismissing Prof Tom Garvin (retired), Mary Daly caused a cat fight out in UCD with that article. Of course she can opine in the media all she wants safe in the knowledge that she has a fully tenured professorship.

sron

delta_bravo wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0506/1224269791606.html

Heres the retort to it. Hes right and he is wrong in a way. Universities are now run like businesses but I think its unfair to say that thought and research is not regarded as important anymore.

I love how enthusiastic those in the picture look.

I liked the NUIG retort in today's letters. It would be hard to devise a more fatuous exercise than marketing a Shakespeare play as if it were new.

El Siglo

Marketing Shakespeare, that bit really got on my wick (if you'll excuse the pun;)). Laffan and her ilk are all the same, they'll trumpet the successes of this 'model' till the cows come home, as Orwell said; "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents" I think the same line of thinking might be applicable to Laffan and Daly's response.

Tristram

sron wrote: »

I love how enthusiastic those in the picture look.

I liked the NUIG retort in today's letters. It would be hard to devise a more fatuous exercise than marketing a Shakespeare play as if it were new.

Enjoyed that myself alright