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br> Parris Island, SC /p> p>Defense by foreign barbarians. What a good idea. br> -- Arminius /p> p> WHO'S PATRONIZING WHOM? br> Re: Ben Stein's Spiders With Tenure : /p> p>I read Ben's piece on professordom in both the magazine and on your website yesterday. Loved it. As a veteran of 41 years as a college professor, almost all at state universities, I can add a few things to his observations. One is that the liberalism of most academics is rooted to some extent in the fact that they most of them are wards of the state. In the old days when intellectuals depended upon rich patrons for support, they were a lot more conservative. Imagine that. Also, a lot of academics are rather immature people who, like children, love to bite the hand that feeds them. Then the fact that their clientele includes many young people who like to rebel against social conventions tempts them to ingratiate themselves by catering to those rebellious tendencies. br> -- John S. Evans

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