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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:33:12 +0000
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- From: rmcdonell%ucsd.edu@SDSC.BITNET
- Subject: Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
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- >>
- >> One may
- >> >argue that students who attend the ivies are better prepared (and of course
- >> >they are) than the generally working class students--the ones who go to
- >> >the cheaper schools, but I wonder if another social imperative is at
- >> >work here?
- >> >Irv
- >>
- >> "Better prepared for whose what?" might be another way to ask the question
- >> and open the issue of the "social imperative" to the question of "Whose?"
- >> as well.
- >>
- >> robt
- >>
- >> rmcdonell@ucsd.edu
- >>
- >Robert:
- >Actually, I can't really remember what I was writing about. I think
- >they are better prepared for assuming open-ended social role--they
- >define their own projects, purposes, rewards, etc.--they are better
- >prepared to assume positions that most of us find more rewarding than
- >those positions in which roles and rewards are defined for us. The
- >social imperative might be that those of us who have made our way into
- >these positions have a deep interested in reserving those kinds of
- >positions (which are, after all, more fun that the others) for our
- >children--the ones who go to these elite schools.
- >Irv
- >How is ucsd these days? Let's meet at CCCC.
- >--
- >Irvin Peckham
- >University of Nebraska at Omaha
- >peckham@unomaha.edu
-
- Irvin,
-
- I see what you're saying, and it is true, but I think, given that accession
- to such open-ended postions, to one degree or another, requires submission
- to that social imperative(call it hegemony, dominant ideology, whatever)
- and its reproduction, that it is difficult (I hope) to be "happy" unless
- one is attempting to (radically) transform/subvert the hegemonic order.
-
- UCSD has the virtue of being situated very close to the Pacific Ocean
- (that vast expanse of blueland that has befuddled the most assiduous of
- sub-dividers). What more can one say re: an institution that consistently
- ranks among the top five grant-grubbers in the nation--the majority of them
- war department related.
- rmcdonell@ucsd.edu
-