You have it backwards. "coporations are our bosses." Who gets appointed to the board of regents? What names appear on the buildings, including the libraries?
Several penners have noticed that the "user friendly" library "improvements" coincide with budget cuts. Every few weeks, the library gets a couple dozen books. The library is engaged in a weeding process to make room. I was apalled by the economic books chosen & got some reversed. The major criteria was how often a book was checked out. I assume that few books on Afghanistan were checked out until a few years ago. Books are not a good candidate for just in time inventories. On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 05:06:15PM -0700, raghu wrote: > 2) If you think "students are our customers" is bad, what do you think > of "coporations are our customers" as a motto for a public university. > Yet an executive from Intel quite explicitly suggested this at a > recent conference to celebrate the newly developed hybrid on-chip > laser. The Intel rep had the audacity to openly talk about Intel's > efforts to lobby the NSF to reorient its funding priorities to this > end. Even worse he declared Intel's preference to using inexpensive > grad student labor that he claimed was a win-win proposition. > > Since we all know there is no such thing as win-win in capitalism, the > question is: are we chumps for going to grad school? > -raghu. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
