Re: HOW STUPID CAN A UNIVERSITY BE?

Jonathan Maddox (jmaddox@neumann.une.edu.au)
29 Apr 1995 17:52:12 GMT

On Thu, 27 Apr 1995 06:21:34 UTC, Poor Richard (an175779@anon.penet.fi) wrote:

-Poor Richard's favorite university constantly complains that it has no money.

-That same university prevents Poor Richard from spending the money on his
-NIH grant.

-You see, Poor Richard (being poor) was not able to get an unadulterated
-NIH R01; instead, what he has is a little "piece-of-the-action" on an
-NIH grant PI'd by someone else.

-But even this money is not allowed to be spent by the big bad Chairman
-of the university department in which the PI sits. You see, if the money
-were to be spent, both the PI and Poor Richard might be even more important
-than the chairman! So, to prevent the embarassment, why not let the
-money just expire.

-And now that chairman don't get a cut of the indirect costs, I guess
-the university will just have to forgo its allotment.

-Too bad for the complaining university....

-HOW STUPID CAN A UNIVERSITY GET.

Pretty stupid. This is very, very typical.

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