What is the point of this whole discussion? Isn't there something more interesting in the LIS world to discuss than go on and on about which schools are for slackers, which schools have strong football programs etc. etc.?

Catherine Closet-Crane, PhD
Instructor
School of Library and information Science
Kent State University

My view is not intended to represent the views of my institutional home.

De : Tracy McCowan <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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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

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