rpi

[sullivan -at- platte -dot- unk -dot- edu]

Paul,  Perhaps you remember me, Dale Sullivan.  I started the
Ph.D. program at rpi when you did and took Carson's class with
you.  I have just been forwarded your attack on rpi. I must tell
you, my experience there was much different than yours,
evidently.  Do you realize that your attack of the school where I
spent thousands of my own dollars (still paying off) and where I
put my family  (wife and 4 children) through 3 years of tough
poverty-- do you understand that you are now destroying or
attempting to destroy the value of my degree and the degree of
many others.  I chose RPI because it was the best program in the
nation; I could have settled for a lesser program, but I felt the
sacrifice to go to the best was worth it.  I still think RPI is
the best program out there.  Your attack on the program,
evidently stemming from your refusal to give in to Carson's
requirements in our class (you do remember that's where it all
started), hurts a lot of people, not just RPI. Fortunately, the
tone of your message was so vitriolic that I assume most readers
can recognize a neurosis when they see one.  Dale Sullivan

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CONTRA CABAL - GENERAL INFORMATION
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CONTRA CABAL has published 22 editions and has a regular
international readership of many thousands. It comprises an
electronic column that contains  satirical and expository essays.
These essays create public awareness of the philosophical,
pseudo-religious, oligarchic world views of several Rensselaer
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They predicate upon the discrete manipulation of situations to
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CONTRA CABAL - CUMULATIVE INDEX
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coca.idx  Index
coca.inf  General Information

coca.100  Contents 1(1-6):

coca.101  Introduction to CONTRA CABAL
coca.102  Introducing the Weasel
coca.103  Dedication
coca.104  The Cabal of Asses
coca.105  A Rhetorical Image
coca.106  The Tails of Three Irish Asses

coca.200  Contents 2(1-7):

coca.201  Introduction and Review
coca.202  Now that I have your Attention!
coca.203  The Two Freedoms
coca.204  Academic Clones within the Cabal
          Letters about the Editor and CONTRA CABAL
coca.205  The Thirteenth Member of the Cabal of Asses
coca.206  Precensorship and Assassination: Neo-Nazi Cabalism
          Another Letter from Robbie the Raccoon
          A Letter from a Reader in New York
coca.207  Feminist or Femi-Nazi?
          The Seven Sycophantic Sisters
coca.208  Epilogue to Precensorship

coca.300  Contents 3(1-2):

coca.301  The Presidential Council of Asses
coca.302  Rhetoric of Demokracy

coca.400  Contents 4(1)

coca.401  The Fall Series Commences
coca.402  Byron the Piper
coca.403  I [Had] a Dream . . . NCTE 93
coca.404  The Piper's Oblivion
coca.405  The Editor Replies to Ms. Robinson
coca.406  A Reply to Dr. Dale Sullivan

coca.inf  General Information
coca.idx  Cumulative Index

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