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The tenure question has furthered the part-time dilemma abuse now found at most colleges. Tenure is necessary. Retirement is at least a book-length problem. Thirty-year old notes need updating or at least an acknowledgment of the transitions in literary criticism. If one does not gain tenure, a college can merely throw you away. Yet tenure like academic freedom is not a license for abuse.

: -- Dr. John Harty, III (posted 11/1, 11:59 a.m., E.S.T.)

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