Excellent!  Bravo!

My favorite excerpt:

If our leadership continues to treat our university as a business, students and faculty will continue to be stepped on. A university exists for the faculty and the students they educate. Shifting the focus to profit is senseless. Those who seek only money should not be allowed to have power over the careers of those who seek the more valuable qualities of living.

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Originally posted by: Sometimes disillusioned prof
"I don't know this young man, but he and his professors are to be congratulated. No one could present this problem/issue more eloquently than he has done--from the mouth of a student. I sincerely hope that those who SFT calls our "stakeholders," as well as those on the board and in the other media outlets, read this."

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For the record, S.D. Prof, Sam Leake is female.  "Sam" may be short for Samantha, but I'm not sure. She has a cute picture with her column.  I agree it is an inspiring piece for these difficult times.

Someone needs to smuggle a copy of this column to Commissioner Crofts. Apparently he is on campus today (if a parking space by the Dome with a "Reserved Crofts" sign means anything).

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Originally posted by: Gnome Chompski
"Thank you, Sam.  And thanks to Reporter. Would someone please explain to Dr. Thames the distinction between a simile and a metaphor?  It's one thing to say, "Life is like a game," but quite another to say, "Life is a game." The two statements sound similar, but the meanings are different. I can understand the notion that there are aspects of a university that are similar to certain aspects of a business; but to say that the "university is a business" is to invite misunderstanding, at the very least.  At the very worst, . . . well, that's what Sam has already described with such eloquence."

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