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Mr. Wonderful

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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine: November 7
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This week's message board postings were powerful and plenty.  #1 Groupie told the selection committee that the inspiring content of the postings reminded her of  some words from the old World War II song "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer," and she asked that her assistant retrieve the second stanza and post it prior to presenting this week's awards:
 

"What a show -
 What a fight -
 Yes, we really hit our target for tonight.
 How we sing as we limp through the air,
 Look below there's our field over there.
 With a full crew aboard and our trust in the Lord,
 We're coming in on a wing and a prayer."
 
 
And now for the formal award presentations. The selection committee noted that good things sometimes come in sets of two or three, and this was reflected in the message board postings this week. This week's  "honorable mention" catagory is comprised of four sets of related postings:
 
 
HONORABLE MENTION - SET  #1:
 
POSTER: Mash Tent - "It appears to me that the wur'l class war in Hattiesburg continues to rage. A war against the faculty. Against academic freedom. Against tenure. Against shared governance. Against due process. Against AAUP. Against traditional academic values. And now it appears to me that the wur'l class war zone has been expanded to include the surrounding community at large. Against the Hatiesburg voters. Against the Hattiesburg mayor. How bad does it have to get?"
 
POSTER: War Veteran - "I agree we have a new war going . . . the war has been expanded to a new front outside of academics. The 'academic goldmine' has spread to the community
 
POSTER: Choose your poison (dart) - "It's not like there's a dearth of vulnerabilities: lawsuits, AA/EEOC concerns, departmental holdbacks, public criticism of faculty, continued campus unrest, inability to lead and resolve conflict, enrollment growth below projections and below other state universities, looming accreditations, caustic style, scorned ex- supporters, temper, health, attention span, media spin, false starts, academic fundraising, inability to deliver on promises, cost of correcting mistakes, faculty flight, administrative turnover, super secret economic development raises . . ."  [Thanks, foot soldier, for this nomination]
 
 
HONORABLE MENTION - SET #2:
 
POSTER: foot soldier - "USM faculty members have ethical sensibilities. Most of them are not in this business for the money. They are in it because they care about other things than money."
 
POSTER: Money talks - "Truer words were never spoken, footsie . . . I think you may have possibily identified one of the reasons underlying much of USM's sad debacle: a difference in values."
 
 
HONORABLE MENTION - SET #3:
 
POSTER: Emeril -  "It's about money, and money is about politics, and politics is about power."
 
POSTER:  Stephen Judd - "It is interesting to watch how the benevolence of the powerful can turn publically brutal when their interests are threatened. That's the state of the drama we are watching now."
 
 
And now for the WINNING SET:
 
The Citation de la Semaine selection committee deviated from its previous policy in this particular instance, by accepting a nomination from #1 Groupie's (Immature) Research Assistant who went back into the message board archives and reproduced this posting. POSTER: - Otherside: "Academics collectively, not individually, are the experts in questions of higher education. They are the ones who established the principles of shared governance, academic freedom, etc. by which real universities run.
 
POSTER:  Eric Luce - "I belong . . . to AAUP."
 
POSTER: UNC Wilmington - "You are not alone. I belong to AAUP too. This is a tremendous and powerful message board.
 
 
The Entire Mr. Wonderful Organization would like to wish all posters a very good week, and we would like to end today's presentation ceremony with something for your listening pleasure - something that we believe captures the unrelenting spirit of the message board. Be sure your sound card is installed as you access the following hotlink:   Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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educator

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Bravo to the Selection Committee. Eric Luce and UNC Wilmington's "set" spoke volumes for the strength and hope that AAUP gives its members.


 


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Say it with music

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I like the song. It describes the plight of the USM faculty very well. Hitting a target. Getting hit and losing an engine. Limping back to home base. Trusting that things will get better. Getting ready for the next mission. And so it goes.

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Originally posted by: Say it with music
"I like the song. It describes the plight of the USM faculty very well. Hitting a target. Getting hit and losing an engine. Limping back to home base. Trusting that things will get better. Getting ready for the next mission. And so it goes. "

 


Ah, yes.  As Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human endeavor was so much owed by so many to so few."



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Originally posted by: Mr. Wonderful
"   POSTER: Choose your poison (dart) - "It's not like there's a dearth of vulnerabilities...  "

Thanks Mr. Wonderful,


I'm in good company (and despite what that other committee said, I was not pandering for your award).


Cypd



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