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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:14:00 CST
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- From: "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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- Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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- Natalie's description of academic dress styles ....
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- : And professors can usually be distinguished from other staff by clothes.
- : The men in coats and ties and the women in hose and heels are usually non-
- : faculty (or rather non-teaching/non-researching -- the term "faculty" here
- : is pretty confusing since it includes lots of non-teaching/non-researching
- : positions). Middle-aged people in jeans are usually faculty in the College
- : of Arts & Sciences.
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- Usually, but not always. I enjoy being told I look like a banker,
- and I'll almost always wear a tie for teaching. What's confusing
- about the term "faculty" including non-teaching, non-researching
- positions? Isn't that what the term "tenured deadwood" refers to?
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- Steve Karlson
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