Open Season

Piracy roams the academic high seas. Last week two prominent Southern educators spoke out about it--though unofficially, because they didn't want to admit out loud that their own faculties were being pillaged.

Said one: "Everybody is raiding everybody else. We just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw around--some Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university faculty--and only two to destroy it."

Said the-other: "Before the war, when another university wanted to borrow a professor even for a six-month lectureship, they wrote a polite letter asking our permission. Now they just send a telegram direct to the professor, offering him a permanent job. The only way I hear about it is if I happen to run into the professor with his furniture on his back."

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