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From: Dolly Ziegler <>
Subject: Re: Off-Topic Reply to RE: On Douglas Richardson's new books
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:35:19 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <c9.218334e7.2a018b99@aol.com>


Hello to the list. Ken, I must disagree with this statement of yours:

On
Wed, 1 May 2002 wrote:

> Most 'pro' contributors and editors rely on academia to provide their real
> living. They teach and lecture -- these kinds of things. Obviously, the
> colleges and universities that they work for suffer from the lack of getting
> much less than 100 percent effort to the profession that sustains them.

Even the most devoted teachers and professors are expected to have outside
interests -- they do not teach/lecture/advise/committeegrok/study 16 hours
a day, 7 days a week. If one of those outside interests is medieval
genealogy, other people benefit when that specialized knowledge is shared.
It is quite unfair to say their profession (college, university) gets
"much less than 100 percent effort" when that happens.
Cheers, Dolly in Maryland

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