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Hi Dan,

I guess your answer to my (tongue in cheek posting) would be the
second choice: that the poster needs to buy some intestinal fortitude,
and that the first choice (again, rather poorly communicated sarcasm)
is obviously not the accurate assessment.

It is a shame that this forum does not communicate sarcasm or irony
well at all.  I did NOT mean to convey SERIOUSLY that a "Brand X"
University education was any less an education than a private
university.  I apologize if you felt that I considered that to be the
case.  I do not.  My sister was educated at "Brand X" University (The
University of Washington, Seattle, Wa), and is one of the most
brilliant people I know.

Those seemed to be the only two options available, and option 2 (That
he is a "gutless wonder") seems to me to be the correct option.

Again, I apologize to you, Dan (and anyone else whom I may have
inadvertently offended), by communicating so poorly.

Dan McCloud <mccloudt@river.it.gvsu.edu> wrote:

>J. Michael Phillips wrote:
>> 
>> ***SIGH***
>> 
>> Pretty sad commentary on Public Schools . . . I went to a Private
>> University, and graduated in 3 1/2 years with a BS AND a BA . . .
>> [snip]
>> I guess it's true, either the public universities are but a pale
>> imitation of REAL universities, or this guy needs to stop by Sears,
>> and buy himself some intestinal fortitude . . . Can I hear comments
>> from my State University Brothers?  Which do YOU think it is?
>> 

>I think that this individual would fare just as poorly at a private school as he is 
>in his present situation.  It is a rather snobbish assumption to think that students 
>at a private institution are better students, workers, human beings, etc. by mere 
>virtue of them simply being students at a private institution.  Success at the 
>university level has infinitely more to do with the individual than it does with the 
>college of choice being a public or private institution.  In fact, if Mr. Fryoux's 
>situation is strictly financial, as he would have us believe, then he would most 
>probably have more of a problem at a private school, since tuition is much higher.  I 
>would suggest that you re-examine the source of his difficulties, if he does have 
>any, as your assessment of that public school's role in his current problematic 
>situation is severely misguided.



J. Michael Phillips

http://www.eskimo.com/~wizkidm/