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So which school are you referring to here? On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Suzanne Stauffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It wasn't the U.S. News rankings. It was a satirical website, "CollegeHumor." > > > "Strong football program" = $100 million + in annual budget; coach's > salary of roughly $5 million; national champions twice in the past 10 > years; played in bowl games at least 3 times in the same period; campus > closes every home game due to being taken over by tailgaters; library, labs > and classroom buildings are closed due to past vandalism by drunken fans. > > I honestly don't understand your point. > > Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > School of Library and Information Science > Louisiana State University > 275 Coates Hall > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > (225)578-1461 > Fax: (225)578-4581 > [log in to unmask] > > * > Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? > Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? > > --T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock" > > * > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum on behalf of Gretchen Whitney > *Sent:* Sat 2/18/2012 6:50 PM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* Re: slacker schools (fwd) > > Rec'd with a technical glitch. --gw > -------------------- > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:21:43 -0500 > From: Mary E Choquette <[log in to unmask]> > > I usually do not chime in on such threads, but in this > instance I must. Does anyone really take U.S. News and World Report > seriously in matters of accreditation or any other realm of academic > consideration by folk or institution? Is it not just a paragraph in an > institution's glossy? Secondly, just what is a "strong football program?" > Not all sports are contained within the arena of conferences that play on > kickback, so to speak. Been watching that recent Harvard grad playing for > the Niks? His choice. Traditional sports and other modes of kinesthetic > performance production are all too regionally chauvenistically > categorized. > > IMO > > ************************************* > Mary Edsall Choquette, M.L.S., Ph.D. > College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool > University of Maryland, College Park > 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing > College Park, MD 20742 > [log in to unmask] > >