going public

[Wayne Johnson]

Michael.


First of all, I am very disappointed that you shared my "highly poisonal"
statement to YOU about Harvard.  You have completely trashed my burgeoning
reputation as a Harvard basher and general excorifier of life along the
Charles!  Now, no one but Jon Ford will take these statements seriously.
Everyone else will just roll their eyes ceilingward and say to themselves or
to their significant other (or other, bi-polar self or whichever is most
convenient or most in line with their therapist)...Oh!  There goes Bubba
Harvard-bashing again.  No suspense.  Nothing.  Thank you, Mr.
Shares-Every-Little-Thing-and-Undercuts-the-Irony-Person!

Secondly,  I thought Cornel Wilde was dead by now.  At least he should be
after running away and leaving Gerte Frobe to be baked like a summer yam by
a bunch of guys wearing banana g-strings and bad body paint.  I don't think
Richard Harris would have done that!   Why the hell would PBS bother to
interview Cornel Wilde anyway?  Oscar Wilde, I could understand.  Cornel is
too old, if still alive and ambulatory, to be shlepping Sharon Stone or
Jessica Lange or one of the seven Britney dwarves.   What have I missed here
in the Dominion Boon docks?

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Michael
Eisenstadt
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:05 AM
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: going public

Bubba wrote:

> I know I give you a lot of silly guff about Harvard, but I really have the
> deepest respect for the institution and their approach to education...as
you
> examples illustrate...it operates a vastly more sophisticated approach
than
> most other schools.

and boy are they in the news right now. i heard a
Cornel Wilde telephone interview with a PBS reporter
this morning.

as you know fat boy Larry Summers is their new el
presidente. he is very young for the position and
he may have ambitions to do a Woodrow Wilson
(Princeton president -> White House).

so he may have said to himself 'lets see what
happens if I move against the Black Studies
department.'

so he braced Cornel Wilde in an interview. the
one thing he was accused of if it is true is
very very damaging in Harvard terms: missing
classes.

at Harvard the profs never but NEVER miss
classes unlike everywhere else in academia.

of course they should have never set up an
independent Black Studies department in the
first place. it should have been placed in
the History department. if Summers can
reverse this, he's got my vote.

C Wilde in the telephone interview said that
as far as he was concerned, colleges were
instruments of social change and that his
agenda could be as well pursued in a community
college as at Harvard or Princeton.

stay tuned!