[PEN-L:1787] Re: Re: Summers makes nice

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Hanly wrote:

>Doesn't this make Summers look worse rather than better? After all, his
>name was on the memo, and therefore he approved the contents. At the same
>time, he represents the text as his own when it  was written by someone
>else. In academia, at least in  the past, that would be grounds for sever
>disciplinary action. Seems to me that someone in Canada actually had
>their PHD rescinded for that sort of thing when it was discovered that
>someone else had actually written the thesis that earned the degree.

How many academic books and papers are written by grad students and signed
by bigwigs? I know of one celebrity leftish academic who even had tenure
recommendations ghosted by grad students. I know of one celebrity leftish
journalist who has a stable of ghostwriters, many of them not even
consensual.

Maybe we can get Larry Flynt to put up some reward money and find out the
real extent of this.


Doug