Re: HOW STUPID CAN A UNIVERSITY BE?
(no name) ((no email))
27 Apr 1995 11:32:53 GMT
In article <062308Z27041995@anon.penet.fi>, email@example.com (Poor
>Poor Richard's favorite university constantly complains that it has no money.
>That same university prevents Poor Richard from spending the money on his
>You see, Poor Richard (being poor) was not able to get an unadulterated
>NIH R01; instead, what he has is a little "piece-of-the-action" on an
>NIH grant PI'd by someone else.
>But even this money is not allowed to be spent by the big bad Chairman
>of the university department in which the PI sits. You see, if the money
>were to be spent, both the PI and Poor Richard might be even more important
>than the chairman! So, to prevent the embarassment, why not let the
>money just expire.
>And now that chairman don't get a cut of the indirect costs, I guess
>the university will just have to forgo its allotment.
>Too bad for the complaining university....
>HOW STUPID CAN A UNIVERSITY GET.
Why don't you go tell this to someone who cares? If the situation at pr's
university is soooooo bad, why doesn't he/she just move? Certainly, someone
with all of pr's talents can find gainful employment somewhere else. Perhaps
pr has been out looking to move to another university, and no place else is
interested. I wonder why such might be the case... Maybe pr's overhead return
won't even cover his/her connection fees to the internet for this gratuitous
Hey, pr, listen carefully: We don't care to hear any more of your twaddle.
It's a waste of bandwidth.