Today, Salon is reprinting the piece we ran about universities being run like a business. Ordinary Times- you hear it here first!!
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
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Congrats Rufus!Report
Congratulations Rufus. Pretty dang cool.Report
And I liked it just as well on a second read in another place.
Congrats, Rufus!Report
Personally, I think it was better here.
But, yes, it’s awesome that it’s there too.Report
Thanks! I’ll admit I liked the picture here better.Report
Although, of course, I picked the picture here! So…. never mind!Report
Regarding picture choice, it could have been worse.Report
Tout est pardonné, indeed. Congrats!Report
Congrats Rufus!
I notice that they changed the title. Was that your idea or their’s?Report
Oh, theirs- that’s standard operating procedure at most outlets. It’s why I always feel bad for writers who get savaged for an article whose title or lead paragraph gave the wrong impression.Report
Or, even worse, when the angry comment is entirely about the lead in and title and they haven’t read the article at all! At any rate, I’m skipping the Salon comments, which tend to be a bit of a freakshow on a good day.Report
Awesome!
There were no comments, so I got things started.Report
Thanks for that! I usually skip the comments at Salon because they seem to get a lot of kooks there. It’s not as bad as some of the places online, but enough to make me appreciate our commentariat here!Report
Congrats!
Of course, Salon’s going to Salon with their editing, as “Running the University (and everything else) like a Business” shows a different set of implicit value judgements than “The free market is destroying my school”Report
Yeah, well definitely a different set of likely solutions to the problem than I would go with.
Not a big deal. It’s actually somewhat helpful in illustrating to me that my titling could be punchier before I pitch stuff. My title here was okay, but I’ve pitched articles with pretty lame titles I’d have to say.Report
I didn’t know how to write eye-grabbing titles until I learned this one cool trick!Report
Congratulations!Report
Excellent! Congrats!Report