My understanding is that at Vanderbilt, if you win a Nobel Prize, you get your own, personal campus parking spot; so says my sister-in-law you got her PhD there.



Dan



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On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:10 PM, "Peter Shears" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



> Sally -

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> here it's called 'rationalising'!

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> Peter.

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> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sally Gunz [[log in to unmask]]

> Sent: 31 August 2011 19:10

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> Subject: Re: thought for the day

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> Agreed. Nothing induces passion like parking issues. The other issue at university used to be cutting back on the book collection (I can't even remember the terminology now -- culling and purging?) in U libraries. No longer nearly as relevant to faculty. I once chaired our faculty (Arts) council meeting where the discussion was "A" and "B' requirements. I never did discover what they were but they clearly were right up there with parking. (I suspect they were what lay between some departments and redundancy in the U system!!).

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> Sally

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> On 8/31/2011 2:00 PM, Maurer,Virginia G wrote:

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> Well, if I were moving to another university, which I am not, one of the first things to negotiate past salary and courses would be parking. No assurance of reasonable parking would be a deal killer. It would be far more important than tenure, at least to me.

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> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] on behalf of Lee Reed [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>]

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> Subject: Re: thought for the day

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> I believe that it was former UCLA president Clark Kerr who said that the most pressing responsibilities of a university administration were to provide " football for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.”

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> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Sally Gunz <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

> For those of you considering another year of University 'challenges', here is another option:

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> http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/dan-middlemiss/

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> Sally