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Date:    Sat, 04 Dec 93 22:51 EST
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From: PATTYO%IRISHMVS.CC.ND.EDU@UICVM.UIC.EDU
Subject: hiring policy
Notre Dame has a similar informal policy where grad students are ok
to teach while grad students, but once they get their degrees, they're
no longer ok.

This reminds me of the incest taboo.  It's not that there's something
inherently evil or biologically inappropriate about intimacy within
the family or kin group.  Instead, it's a fostering of cooperation
between and among a whole bunch of kin groups.  If universities hired
only their own grad students, no cooperation among departments and
sharing of different and diverse knowledge would occur.  At least not
to the extent that it could occur.  I think the policy may be taken
too far, though.  Why am I qualified to teach and research at and for
Notre Dame as a graduate student, but once I get the official PhD,
that's it....  Hmmm...  It makes you wonder.

Patty O'Donnell