Jon Gallantly put it: >The interesting question, to me, is how the corporate way of doing things >somehow takes over supposedly non-corporate entities. Is it like a >computer virus? Would that it were, so we could just apply some virus eradication tools. Do we need to reboot? As Jon gnomes, probably all too well, the corporators have also taken over public universities. Fine arts get puny funding, and this is not unrelated to the topic at hand. Music programs, philosophy departments, foreign languages - - if these are not disappearing altogether from many schools, their professors are paid miserably low wages relative to the Bidness Faculty, who often make two to three times their salaries. Never mind the salaries of the administrators, who now run most of the show (they allow faculty senates to exist, that they might do their venting behind closed doors). And who is to blame? I think that we all are, and in particular the original keepers of the flames themselves, who have allowed, even encouraged the corporate corps to do the work of running things. And so they did. Rick, needing more coffee.