On 1/14/03 4:07 AM, "Jennifer Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear ArtnAnts, > > Normally, I wouldn't care about this kind of thing, but you posted the note > in a way that suggested you don't think much of art history, and the way you > posted suggested disrespect for those who bother with such things. Your > email ad for a diploma mill suggested the same thing. The tone of your > messages was that this is an easy field for the kinds of people that Brad > Brace believes are "failed artists." Suggesting that I could get an easy > Ph.D. in two years rather than by investing the time and effort that this > work really requires is another way of saying that. > Ah Jenny, art history would be a more popular discipline if its practitioners acquired both more humor and greater willingness to play! The diploma mill ad was at least as much a joke on the sender as on the recipient.I don't think you need take it as any sort of insult. As a slavey in the fields of academe currently, long long after one could be expected to have any ability to sing "I did it thei-r-r-r-r way" with any kind of gusto, I need all the self-mockery I can muster just to smile politely at the department chair every day. If I could get the dang paper from a diploma mill I would. AK
