Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera

[Jim Taylor]

Chris, you a nice fella and all, but you gotta NOT pick on football.

Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera


> The point is very little if any of the money earned (extorted?) on
football
> ever trickles down to be sqandered on academics.
>   At one university I know well, a stadium and a museum were built in 1938
> following the state centennial celebration. The stadium has been rebuilt
> and enlarged at least 3 times since. The museum remains only one third
> built. One year the bill for Astroturf was sent by mistake to the museum.
> The bill was more than the operating budget of the museum.
> Shame! Shame! Shame!
> ...........Chris Durden
>
>
>
> At 05:36  24/10/00 EDT, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 10/23/00 8:41:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >gatrelle at tils-ttr.org writes:
> >
> ><<  On another matter, It should be of concern to all of us that the
> > Bulletin of the Allyn Museum has not been put out for three years. I
heard
> > from The Top that the U. of Florida, which now controls the Allyn
Museum,
> > has cut off funding for the Bulletin. This is outrageous. The U. of F
> > absolutely spends more in one year on ONE football players uniforms,
travel,
> > etc. than a years worth of the Bulletin issues!! For a multi-million
dollar
> > University to cut off such a worth while scientific publication smacks
of
> > nothing but internal politics. >>
> >
> >The reason that universities justify spending money on football is that
> >football brings in huge bucks. When was the last time that you saw a leps
> >program on Pay For View? While Joe Six Pack sits on the couch damaging
his
> >brain he could be out with his son or daughter doing something useful
like
> >setting up butterfly habitats or taking the kids to a museum. Habitats
and
> >museums are not sexy.
> >
> >Remember sex sells and it might even get your thesis on Pay For View!
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
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