LETTERS
LETTERS Rauh deal I suppose that part of the inevitable fallout of "Tilting at Windmills" is that occasionally its attack missiles land on an innocent party. One such person was the...
...One of the points you made is that those who sided with Clifford did so at least in part because they too represented clients like BCCI and undertook the kind of work that might have put them in similar straits "but for the grace of God...
...The editor replies: There's the rub...
...others wish to work in the public sector for service-oriented organizations such as the National Weather Service...
...It may intrigue your readers that Rowe's and Kahlenberg's assessments of law school have a much broader application than one might suspect...
...process, 4) end faculty tenure, 5) reorganize faculty titles and responsibilities, 6) return to the four-year bachelor's degree, 7) take sexual harassment seriously, 8) ban political discrimination, 9) stop athletic corruption, and 10) crack down on institutional corruption...
...I enrolled at graduate school in 1988 enthralled with the idea of becoming a college professor, a teacher as well as a researcher...
...Fish story I am baffled by the hysterical response my book, Impostors in the Temple, engenders among otherwise seemingly normal academicians...
...Thinking like a lawyer means thinking about the 49 things that don't much matter rather than the one that does...
...Because it is subtly communicated to graduate students that you can slip down the ladder from an MIT or a Washington, but can never climb up from a Metropolitan State or a Lyndon State—never, even if you are a real talent who's just "slumming...
...In these days of school budget nightmares, few people wish to bet the next 30 years of their lives—and their families' lives—on the stability of a small school's funding...
...Morrison is head of the Public Citizen Litigation Group...
...I shall ignore the innuendo and straw men that Fish employs to press his erroneous case and instead focus on the outright falsehoods: The book "cites only right-wing authors...
...My highest hope is that I will meet my maker with a track record half as worthy as his...
...When he does cite a source it is often some third-hand report of a story in The Wall Street Journal...
...The book "promotes only right-wing ideas...
...it makes them write as if astride a cattle prod...
...Louis We here at George Washington University were delighted to see your thoughtful and comprehensive review of Marcel C. LaFollette's Stealing into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing ["Lab Rats," Natalie Angier, September...
...SANDY HOLLAND Washington, D.C...
...Louis...
...Thinking like a scientist means thinking more about the one "hot" project which can obtain federal funding, rather than the 49 duties (e.g., adequately teaching your two classes per year, revising 20-year-old class notes, pursuing research relevant to today's problems in your backyard) which would do a lot of good around you, but won't enhance your resume, your chances for promotions, or your ability to jump to another school for more money...
...I should emphasize that my own affection and respect for Joe were immense...
...Because a relative or, as is more often the case, a respected friend, is involved, Washington insiders tend to pull their punches...
...I am a graduate student in the atmospheric sciences, yet with a few words altered, the review would be a legitimate critique of my profession in academia...
...One such person was the recently deceased Joe Rauh, who was lumped together with Lloyd Cutler, Harry McPherson, and Paul Warlike as Washington insiders who sided with one of their lawyer-colleagues in offering sympathy over the indictment of Clark Clifford [September...
...While I do not presume to speak for the others who are mentioned, I do think it would have been appropriate to note that one of the principal reasons Clifford is in all this trouble is that he did not simply provide legal services to First American Bank, but he and his partner Robert Altman were officers of the bank and had significant stock interests in it as well...
...In any event, it was never even a temptation for Joe and his clients...
...Our pleasure quickly turned to chagrin, however, as we neared the end of the third paragraph and found that your review had moved Professor LaFollette from our campus in downtown D.C...
...Just because the law offices of both Rauh and Clifford were adjacent to Farragut Square does not mean that their clients came from the same economic neighborhoods...
...He told me so...
...I laud Yale for having more than 90 percent of its students earn their degrees in four years or less...
...Most end up either leaving before completing their Ph.D.'s or following their Ph.D.'s with 1) postdoctoral positions (no teaching, usually), 2) research positions at research institutes (again, no teaching), and/or for those lucky few, 3) faculty positions at universities, where they teach primarily graduate students...
...I endorse the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
...Perhaps a rigorous deconstructionist argument would explain how all these men and women qualify as "right-wing authors...
...I know that Rauh had contempt for Clifford's role at the NBW...
...Most of his career since leaving the government was spent defending individuals whose civil liberties were attacked by the likes of Senator Joe McCarthy, fighting for equality in housing, schools, and jobs, or working with labor to advance the well-being of individual workers while fostering union democracy...
...Though we'd never allege misconduct in this honest mistake, misinformation often takes on a life of its own...
...The book "lauds only right-wing institutions...
...Now this is a really daffy statement...
...LETTERS Rauh deal I suppose that part of the inevitable fallout of "Tilting at Windmills" is that occasionally its attack missiles land on an innocent party...
...Whether or not that is true for the others, it is certainly not true for Joe Rauh...
...What is especially surprising is that Charles Peters knew Joe personally, and the article contains the explanation of why Joe made the statement he did—his son is one of Clifford's lawyers...
...I conclude the book by recommending that we 1) prohibit student teaching, 2) stop rewarding spurious research and writing, 3) change the Ph.D...
...Many atmospheric science graduate students arrive aspiring to teach students, including undergraduates...
...Many of my answers parallel those of Kahlenberg and the comments made in Rowe's review...
...But he couldn't say anything to the Post because it might embarrass his son...
...I also cite frequent contributors to The Washington Monthly—Nicholas Lemann and James David Barber— among others including Stephen Jay Gould, Pauline Maier, Jacques Barzun, and Andrew Hacker...
...Rowe's patience wears thin with Kahlenberg because he cannot shake the "calculating careerism" while he is contemplating his jump into public service...
...On August 17, Dr...
...Perhaps, but I am still baffled, especially after reading Fish's review...
...Why do these teachers end up in all-research schools in the first place...
...ALAN B. MORRISON Washington, D.C...
...MARTIN ANDERSON Stanford, California Mr...
...Fish attributes the difference to the "tone and substance" of the presentations...
...NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Birmingham, Alabama Stealing into St...
...Take your reviewer, the distinguished Professor Stanley Fish from Duke University, who responded in a true Jekyll-and-Hyde fashion [Political Booknotes, September...
...Joe McCarthy would have envied that charge for its audacity —one person I cite in Impostors is Stanley Fish himself...
...One of the more galling aspects of the comparison with Rauh was the inclusion of the episode of Clifford's involvement with Tony Boyle and the National Bank of Washington...
...This calculation goes on in science, as well, with the jump being from all-research institutions to those which still espouse teaching as a primary goal...
...Wrong...
...This can lead to a 'spiritual derailing' of the students who are assimilating this approach...
...Holland is executive director of George Washington University's Office of University Relations...
...I cite one editorial from The Wall Street Journal...
...Anderson is a senior fellow at the Hoover InstitutionCareerist atmospherists I am writing in response to Jonathan Rowe's excellent review of Richard Kahlenberg's Broken Contract ["Loot Court," June 1992...
...We are very proud that LaFollette is one of our professors and we would therefore surely appreciate your setting the record straight...
...By late 1990, I was trying to figure out why the educational system was so indifferent to my objective...
...I congratulate Amherst and Dartmouth for not using students as teachers...
...much further west—all the way to Washington University in St...
...For example: Students arrive wanting to do public interest work...
...they leave serving the private sector...
...Fish wrote me a glowing letter stating that he had seen me on C-Span and that he had found me "thoroughly absorbing, entertaining, reasonable, and persuasive—not words that I used when describing your book" in The Washington Monthly...
...For many, and perhaps most, law firms, that kind of mixing of roles is not allowed...
...Joe was deeply involved in that matter as well, but on the side of those who tried to rid the union of Boyle and assure a fair election for his replacement...
...Anderson's favorite mode of documentation is to report 'What I have observed personally.' " I do say that once or twice, but the overwhelming majority of my book is supported by citation of studies, experts, and reports of events...
Vol. 24 • November 1992 • No. 11
