[Spridgets] Oil ( no direct LBC )

[Lester]

Which university and do they have any open positions in the sciences??

Lester


On Jun 23, 2008, at 2:19 PM, B- Evans wrote:

> Robert Duquette wrote:  "Do you figure this is what the Saudi's are  
> trying
> to discourage by pumping more oil? :)
> http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/06/23/mccain-battery.html "
>
>
>
> The great thing about this is that McCain would have the government  
> pay hard
> cash for RESULTS, not a bottomless pit of academic research that is  
> not
> required to actually produce any results.   What people don't  
> understand is
> that when the government gives a $1 million dollar grant to a  
> university,
> the university skims 40% right off the top to pay for its supposed
> "overhead".   In reality, it has been my experience as a university  
> fiscal
> officer that the 40% is used to pay for unrelated faculty travel  
> (e.g. to
> adopt a baby in Romania), (literally) wine and cheese parties,  
> unrelated
> faculty luxuries, and a myriad of unrelated things the university  
> could
> never get away with if they tried to use State taxpayer money.
>
>
>
> (Now, listen for the squeals and howls of protest from an academic  
> community
> that earns well over $100,000 a year and is required (by union  
> contract) to
> teach no more than 9 hours per week for 30 weeks a year, and not  
> required to
> hold office hours for students or give any academic advising to  
> students.)
>
>
>
> Buster