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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca!mroussel
  3. From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
  4. Subject: Re: Job Discrimination
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155336.29957@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
  6. Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
  7. References: <ARA.93Jan24165321@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
  8. Distribution: sci
  9. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:53:36 GMT
  10. Lines: 18
  11.  
  12. In article <ARA.93Jan24165321@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu
  13. (Allan Adler) writes:
  14. >Many math departments place advertisements in which they specify that
  15. >they want to hire someone having a particular nominal specialty
  16. >and that others need not apply. [...]
  17. >What one is actually paid to do is to teach.
  18.  
  19.      Teaching includes both graduate seminars and the supervision of graduate
  20. students.  Since the line between teaching and research is nebulous in this
  21. area, it strikes me that a department is fully justified in choosing its
  22. new faculty at least partly on the basis of research field.  It wouldn't
  23. be fair to incoming graduate students (and it would quickly prove
  24. destructive to the department) if a cross-section of research interests
  25. were not represented.
  26.      Maybe I'm just missing Allan's point.
  27.  
  28.                 Marc R. Roussel
  29.                                 mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
  30.