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...depressed as Gilder is sunny. "I worry seriously about a world in which it's too easy to simply flip around the dial and think you are gaining access to the world of knowledge and meaning," says Todd Gitlin, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "There's a kind of mental and emotional laziness that gets built...
This is excusable because the coaches are geniuses, and thus fragile. And, of course, because they are paid as much at a typical university as the entire chemistry department. They are great personages, feudal barons only nominally under the control of college presidents. Cal Berkeley astounded the civilized world by firing a coach named Lou Campanelli for yelling at his players in a manner deemed insensitive. Much agitated discussion followed. Had the university lost its sense of values or, worse, its hope of national television? Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles...
...worry about the incredible compliance problems and potential litigation if you fire someone." Using disposable workers also means that companies rarely have to train them. Moreover, getting rid of such workers is easy when they don't measure up. Says Robert Uhlaner, senior vice president of Quantum Consulting in Berkeley, California: "You can try them out. The best thing about it is that you never have to face firing people -- because you never really hire them in the first place...
Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, would have served as a visiting professor next spring. Peter G. Schultz, a biological chemist at the University of California at Berkeley, was offered a tenured post by the Chemistry Department...
...believe it was for a mixture of personal reasons and his strong connections with various parts of Berkeley, and the local community," said...