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Date: 11 Feb 1993 18:13:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Joe Hopper <HOPPER_J@gold.colorado.edu>
Subject: UGH! on rankings.
To: socgrad@ucsd.edu



Ugh.  I am tired of the rankings discussion.  Seems to me it is just as veiled
way of beating ourselves up emotionally and intellectually.  Are we good
enough?  Do we measure up?  Most of us do this enough in our daily lives, and
I would be happy if such topics were off limits in forums like this.

Is anyone else irritated by this?  What bothers me most is all the genuine
excitement and intellectual vigor I feel when READING and WRITING and DOING
and TEACHING sociology just immediately evaporates when I get caught up in
discussions like this.  I think we can offer more to each other as graduate
students and sociologists.  Call me Pollyanna.

Joe Hopper, University of Colorado