I've been absolutely fascinated and amused by the overreaction!! My friend watched a little girl get her gummy bears confiscated. He endured a painful conversation over whether or not his banana was a gel. (I'm sure it was by the time they were done 'screening' it.)
The whole thing is pathetic. I can think of at least a hundred ways to disguise explosives. If they really want to get a bomb on a plane they will. This hysteria does nothing whatsoever to prevent that. I think they want people so afraid to fly that they will drive and feed the demand for oil.
On the other topic...The way I see it tenure is primarily an opportunity to be free politically.
Tenured profs may be able to go in new directions which is great...but they still have the same troubles paying the bills as the rest of us. So they do so at the peril of their research group. That being said, I am totally mystified by the extent of active avoidance of anything remotely controversial by the tenured profs at my U.
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Posted by Sulphur Siren to academicsecret at 8/12/2006 01:05:17 PM
