RE: paleonet Evolution & Health Sciences Assistant Professorship open

["Riding, James B" <jbri@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: paleonet Evolution & Health Sciences Assistant Profess

Like Bill, I would unequivocally recommend all of David Lodge's books to all on PaleoNet

Jim Riding

British Geological Survey

Nottingham UK

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From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Bill Chaisson/Deirdre Cunningham
Sent: 06 October 2004 19:39
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet Evolution & Health Sciences Assistant Professorship open

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY


Department of Integrative Biology

Faculty Position in Evolutionary Biology and the Health Sciences

Not a particularly paleontological contribution, but more of a general academic one.

This advertisement comes to me as I am reading the first volume of a trilogy of academic satires by British novelist/critic David Lodge.  Changing Places (1975) describes an exchange of faculty between the "University of Euphoria" (Berkeley) and "Rummidge University" (Birmingham UK).  It takes place in 1969, a rather lurid year in Berkeley's history.  The sequels are Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988).

I find academic satires to be a welcome antidote to academic aggravation.

Bill

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William P. Chaisson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY  14627

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