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Great Rant in the Irish Times

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  • #2
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    Groinshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Groinshot


    My favourite bit is that he was a professor in UCD


  • #4
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Down UP with this sort of thing!


  • #5
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    Openmp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭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.


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  • #7
    sron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭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.


  • #8
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    Tristram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,592 ✭✭✭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 :D


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