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Great Rant in the Irish Times

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    #2
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭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.


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    Groinshot
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    My favourite bit is that he was a professor in UCD


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    Prof.Badass
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    Down UP with this sort of thing!


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    delta_bravo
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    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.


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    Openmp
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    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.


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    sron
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    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.


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    El Siglo
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    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.


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    Tristram
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    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 :D


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