Astrology and all that (was Re: More details: Re: The Rotting Universities)

2001-08-14 Thread Keith Hudson
] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: More details: Re: The Rotting Universities Hi Ed, At 08:31 13/08/01 -0400, you wrote: As for the woman at the Sorbonne who wrote the thesis on astrology, I would be curious about what she wrote on. For example, perhaps she is a social historian

Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-14 Thread Magic Circ Op Rep Ens
- Original Message - From: Lawrence DeBivort [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: RE: The Rotting Universities We are also seeing in the US a plethora of degree-mills -- fake universities whose goal is to sell 'degrees' so

Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-14 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Christoph Reuss wrote: Keith Hudson wrote: I see from today's Times that our country is not the only one with rotting universities. In Paris, The Sorbonne, founded in the 13th century and once France's most renowned university with the highest standards of scholarship, has now given

Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-14 Thread Christoph Reuss
Brad McCormick wrote: Christoph Reuss wrote: Keith Hudson wrote: I see from today's Times that our country is not the only one with rotting universities. In Paris, The Sorbonne, founded in the 13th century and once France's most renowned university with the highest standards

The Rotting Universities

2001-08-13 Thread Keith Hudson
I see from today's Times that our country is not the only one with rotting universities. In Paris, The Sorbonne, founded in the 13th century and once France's most renowned university with the highest standards of scholarship, has now given a doctorate to a 63 woman who wrote a thesis

Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-13 Thread Ed Weick
Keith Hudson On this list I dare not make a guess as to the state of Canadian universities -- not that I know anything about them. But I have my suspicions. I'm not the right person to comment, since I haven't attended one in thirty years. They may have lost some of their prestige since

More details: Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-13 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Ed, At 08:31 13/08/01 -0400, you wrote: As for the woman at the Sorbonne who wrote the thesis on astrology, I would be curious about what she wrote on. For example, perhaps she is a social historian interested in the role astrology played in peoples lives or in the decisions made by the

Re: More details: Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-13 Thread Ed Weick
Hi Ed, At 08:31 13/08/01 -0400, you wrote: As for the woman at the Sorbonne who wrote the thesis on astrology, I would be curious about what she wrote on. For example, perhaps she is a social historian interested in the role astrology played in peoples lives or in the decisions made by

Re: The Rotting Universities

2001-08-13 Thread Christoph Reuss
Keith Hudson wrote: I see from today's Times that our country is not the only one with rotting universities. In Paris, The Sorbonne, founded in the 13th century and once France's most renowned university with the highest standards of scholarship, has now given a doctorate to a 63 woman who