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From: "Jack B. Monpas-Huber" <jam97003@uconnvm.uconn.edu>
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:40:41 +0000
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Subject: Time limits
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You know, I've never been very persuaded by individual responsibility / "if only you 
would work harder" / blame-the-victim arguments like Tom Brown's.  While there are 
certainly those unmotivated students who after so long may deserve to be cut off, I 
suspect from Nandini's, Danielle's, and now Linda's comments, a more common student might 
be the highly motivated but structurally challenged (family, marriage, kids, jobs, etc.) 
student.  Like Linda, I too reject the instrumentally rational model that Tom uses on the 
grounds that it is inherently elite-serving, unrealistic, and makes life in grad school 
harder than it already is.  Tom, I really wish you would lighten up.


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JACK B. MONPAS-HUBER
Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Sociology
University of Connecticut
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E-mail: jam97003@uconnvm.uconn.edu
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