Date: 17 Nov 1994 06:19:41 GMT
From: Willem de Winter <------@-----.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
Subject: Re: Academic postings . . .

gil@landmark.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:

(rantings deleted. . . )
>Yes, not me Gil Hardwick in particular but WE as the public and WE as
>now ex-university students sucked into all this, and even then not
>allowed free of it while staff continue after us to become involved
>in their ridiculous unending sex scandals, HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN HAD.

Mr Hardwick appears very fond of the royal "WE"...  As one of the
"students sucked into all this", I fail to see what his case has in common
with ours. I was one of Dr Rindos' postgraduate students when he was
sacked, and to varying degrees we all have suffered as a result of that.
Out of his six postgraduate students three have had to withdraw before
submitting. Our problems, however, were NOT due to any actions or 
misdoings of Dr Rindos. Rather, they were caused by the stressful 
processes that accompanied his sacking, and the loss of his highly valued 
input as our supervisor. I should stress here that we all have stood by 
him until the very end, and that on every occasion and at every level of the 
university, we have defended his qualities as a scholar and our supervisor.

Mr Hardwick's problem is entirely different. He chose to kick a man in the
ribs who was already down, who had already seen his career being ravaged,
and is now whinging that the guy stood up and hit him in the teeth. 

Tough shit, Gil.

>WHAT HAS ANY OF IT GOT TO DO WITH THE REST OF US BEING ABLE TO HAVE
>OUR OWN STUDIES SUPERVISED AND ASSESSED ON ITS MERITS. WHAT HAS DR
>RINDOS BEING GAY, AND WANTING TO LIVE HERE WITH HIS MATE, GOT TO DO
>WITH ME NOT BEING ALLOWED TO STUDY AT UNIVERSITY AT ALL.

Right, Gil, nothing at all...

>How come they get such privileged treatment? How come all these
>bloody Americans and others come here getting special dispensation
>while we GET NOTHING. What is this country? Just a host for a lot of
>parasitic foreigners, or what? What do we get for actually being
>CITIZENS of the place? 

Where have I heard such rantings before? It sounds chillingly familiar, 
though the context is different. Visions of old black and white images, 
enraged crowds shouting "Juden raus!", "Volk und Vaterland", "Blut und 
Boden!"...

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Willem de Winter