Subject: Re: Help! - Value of Ivy League vs. Other Schools
From: tigger22@primenet.com
Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:34:02 -0700
Ed Toussaint wrote:
: It seems to me that enticing an athlete to attend an Ivy based on the
: promise of a future earnings bonanza is a cruel game of "bait and
: switch".
: Athletes that enter these schools under the Ivy League Academic Index --
: which rations among the Ivies those kids who would not normally be
: admitted -- just won't get the same benefits that their classmates will.
: Their families will assume, what is in many cases, a crushing debt on the
: basis of the sales pitch that is made by the Ivy coaches.
: The Ivy schools ought to be required to have some sort of warning label
: on their sales presentations, especially to football, basketball and
: lacrosse players. Something like, "This education is no guarantee of
: financial success. Because you are entering the school under a special
: admissions program your post-grduation earnings may be significantly
: below those of your more academically-oriented and talented classmates.".
what a bunch of rubbish....
i never heard of or knew any other athletes that had trouble landing a job
after graduating. Also, keep in mind, student-athletes at Ivy-League
schools have a to have a 2.0 GPA to participate in sports, unlike most
colleges where it is 1.6.
Also, having participated on 2 varsity sports at Penn, it was always
academics bfore athletics.
Worst case scenario,...if the person were a "dumb jock", he still has
contacts thru alumni..i mean, i know plenty of guys who majored in such
things as History, but becuase they excelled in the football program, or
basketball, or wrestling, many had job offers, good-paying, from alumni..
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Subject: Re: Is a US post-doc a good idea?
From: d-turnb@students.uiuc.edu (Doug Turnbull)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:18:36 -0500
In article <51ebde$m0h@oden.abc.se>, m9303@abc.se (Tommy Anderberg) wrote:
> I have a friend over here on the old continent who will soon have to make
> a decision about what to do after grad school. One possibility is a post-doc
> in the US. There are some considerations which I don't expect anybody to be
> able to help with (how this will affect future chances of getting a permanent
> position back here, if spending 2-4 years on another continent really is such
> an attractive idea, etc.) but there are also questions which many of you
> probably could answer. This person has only been to the US for short visits,
> so even basic things like "what are the costs of living", "what is a
> typical post-doc salary (in physics)", "what are the normal duties of an
> American post-doc in physics", "what is the relation vs. faculty members -
> how independent can I be" etc. need to be answered.
I don't know for sure, but I would bet taking a post-doc in the US
would make it harder to find a permanent position in Europe afterwords
(and correspondingly easier to find a job in the US). This, at least, was
the story I heard when I was considering the reverse. (going to Europe for
a post-doc.) There are a couple of reasons for this. First, most companies
don't recruit very heavily internationally. (or at least not
intercontinentally). Also, it is very expensive for a company to fly you
to their office for an interview, which would discourage the pursuit of
international students. It isn't impossible to do, but I think finding a
job will be more difficult.
>
> Also, at the risk of starting another "my-school-is-better-than-yours"
> fight, I'd like to ask what everybody thinks/knows about Northwestern
> University (Evanston, IL) - especially the dept. of physics - as this is
> one of the places where my friend would be most interested in going.
I don't know a lot about the department of physics specifically.
Northwestern is a very good scool, but it is better know for its
business/law/humanities schools. The physics department is probably fairly
good, but probably pretty small. However, what is really important for a
post-doc is the quality of the professor you will be working with. Even if
the rest of the department stinks, as long as your advisor is doing good
work and is well connected, it doesn't really matter.
Doug Turnbull
Subject: Re: does it ever pay to be a "whistle-blower?"
From: kinsler@dirac.shef.ac.uk (Paul Kinsler)
Date: 18 Sep 1996 07:52:05 GMT
Troy Shinbrot (Post.To.NewsGroup.NOT@email.thanks) wrote:
: I agree with all that has been said, but I would add that in academia,
: "retaliation" is seldom necessary. In most subordinate positions, it is
: absolutely mandatory to obtain a good reference from your superior
: (advisor, mentor, department benefactor, whatever). If you irritate your
: superior, your career is for all intents over, with no retaliation
: required. Thus if your friend wants to blow the whistle, I recommend that
: she wait until she has another position firmly and unambiguously in hand.
: Her career may be compromised at that point, but it may not be crippled.
This is only necessary if your superior
is likely to be dishonest and vengeful.
Not all people are like that.
Of course, if your supervisor is honest and
fair, then you are unlikely to have the
problems which started this thread off.
#Paul, trying to counter the negative stereotyping
about 'supervisors' cropping up in this thread.
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"You people, you do not see the grandeur in the wind and stone and stars,
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Subject: Re: does it ever pay to be a "whistle-blower?"
From: "Arthur E. Sowers"
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 04:35:52 -0400
On 18 Sep 1996, Paul Kinsler wrote:
> Troy Shinbrot (Post.To.NewsGroup.NOT@email.thanks) wrote:
> : I agree with all that has been said, but I would add that in academia,
> : "retaliation" is seldom necessary. In most subordinate positions, it is
> : absolutely mandatory to obtain a good reference from your superior
> : (advisor, mentor, department benefactor, whatever). If you irritate your
> : superior, your career is for all intents over, with no retaliation
> : required. Thus if your friend wants to blow the whistle, I recommend that
> : she wait until she has another position firmly and unambiguously in hand.
> : Her career may be compromised at that point, but it may not be crippled.
>
> This is only necessary if your superior
> is likely to be dishonest and vengeful.
> Not all people are like that.
As I recall, what brought this question up in the first place is that
there were ALREADY doubts about the supervisor's
intentions/actions/honesty. The fact of the matter is that supervisors,
compared to subordinates, most of the time have: a) much more power, b)
the advantage of having the benefit of the heirarchy and infrastructure,
c) built-in insulation from most actions available to the subordinate.
> Of course, if your supervisor is honest and
> fair, then you are unlikely to have the
> problems which started this thread off.
Which was not the case.
> #Paul, trying to counter the negative stereotyping
> about 'supervisors' cropping up in this thread.
I think all subordinates need to be "on guard" until the time comes that
they can feel confident about their supervisor. Most of the time when
there is a disagreement its going to be a position of power, rather than a
position of justice, that will prevail. The literature is full of
documentation.
Art Sowers
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> Physics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Phone (w) +44 114 2824283
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> "You people, you do not see the grandeur in the wind and stone and stars,
> in the blood and fire and iron - but paint only the flowers."
>
>
Subject: announcement
From: "Arthur E. Sowers"
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 04:47:51 -0400
From faseb@faseb.org Wed Sep 18 04:24:02 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:17:27 -0400
From: FASEB Information Services
To: arthures@access.digex.net
Subject: Urgent Action Needed on NIH Funding Bill
FASEBnet ACTION ALERT -- FASEBnet ACTION ALERT
MEMORANDUM
TO: Members of FASEB Societies
FROM: John Suttie, President
RE: Urgent Action Needed on NIH Funding Bill
DATE: September 17, 1996
BACKGROUND: On Thursday, September 12th, the Senate Appropriations
Committee completed action the FY 1997 NIH funding bill (H.R. 3755). The
Committee identified NIH as its highest priority and provided NIH with the
largest increase awarded to any single program in its version of the bill
funding the Departments of Labor, Heath and Human Services, and Education.
The level recommended for NIH is $12,415 million, which is $487 million or
4.1 percent above the FY 1996 level. While we are both pleased and
grateful for this action, we were disappointed that the Senate was not
able to match the House action which provided an increase of $820 million
or 6.9 percent.
It is not clear whether the NIH funding differences between the House and
the Senate spending plans will be resolved in a conference on the regular
appropriations bill or in a conference on a Continuing Resolution based on
the House passed and the Senate reported versions of H.R. 3755. In either
case, the Conference is expected to begin as early as September 25th and
the conferees -- the members of the House and Senate who will negotiate a
final agreement on NIH funding -- will be the same.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write to the conferees listed below. You can send
letters, faxes, or telegrams. If you cannot write to all the conferees,
the priority is to write to Senators Arlen Specter (Chair) and Tom Harkin
(Ranking Minority Member) of the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations
Subcommittee. If your own Representative or Senators are not on the
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TIMING: We must act quickly. A vote is expected as early as September
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There is strength in our collective numbers, so please pass this
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critical issue.
YOUR LETTER SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
o A brief introduction, including a very simple explanation of the work
you do and your own connection with NIH.
o That you appreciate the priority both the House and Senate have placed
on NIH by giving it the largest single increase in the Labor-HHS funding
bill.
o That you would like the conferees to adopt the House funding level,
which will give NIH more resources to advance its important work.
o Thank the Member in advance for doing his/her best to provide NIH with a
generous increase for next year.
A SAMPLE LETTER is posted on the FASEB home page at the following address:
http://www.faseb.org/opa/sample.html. Also available on the FASEB home
page are the names, direct addresses, phone and fax numbers for all
conferees. To write to these individuals, however, only the following
address is needed:
WRITING TO CONGRESS:
Letters to Senators should be addressed: The Honorable (Senator's name),
United States Senate, Washington, DC, 20510, with the salutation "Dear
Senator (Name)"; while letters to Representatives should be addressed: The
Honorable (Representative's name), U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515, with the salutation "Dear Representative (Name)".
LIST OF SENATE CONFEREES:
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Inouye (D-HI), James M. Jeffords (R-VT), Herbert H. Kohl (D-WI), Connie
Mack (R-FL), Harry Reid (D-NV), and Arlen Specter (R-PA)
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Istook (R-OK), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Dan Miller
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(R-IL), Frank D. Riggs (R-CA), , Louis Stokes (D-OH), Roger F. Wicker
(R-MS), and C.W. Young (R-FL)
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From: "Molten Metal"
Date: 18 Sep 96 09:47:48 +0000
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Subject: Poison Ivy and Timoth Leary
From: Marc Andelman
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:17:00 -0700
IMHO, no one should attend an ivy league institution unless they
are fortunate enough to be very well off financially, and want to meet
more people of that wealth class. There is nothing wrong with that, as
long as we can be honest about it. What they do not like to tell you,
however, is that these schools have a solid lack of middle class, except for some sons
and daughters of professionals, certainly not sons and daughters of small buisnesmen,
landscapers, contractors, laundrymat owners, etc. It is also more than a little
arrogant for these people to lay any claim to being better educated.
In fact, these schools do their students a great disservice by telling
them they are geniuses. There is nothing at all wrong with being rich,
but you will not get that way turing your parents into paupers and graduating
with a mountain of debt. Many habits, such as drug use, poor family values,
and ivy league institutions are fine for the rich, but very destructive
to the less economically fortunate. Tim Leary and the whole drug culture
started at Harvard and acheived it's social acceptance through the ivy league
cadre that reports "news"
Marc Andelman
Biosource Inc.
President
(The oldest recruitment firm in biotechnology)
Subject: PhD seeks position / Computer Science: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms
From: kvm
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:44:29 +0400
I am seeking employment or postdoctoral opportunities.
My research, in experimental and applied computer science, is
focused upon the design and application of both algorithmic and
non-algorithmic problem solvers. My research interests and experience
consist of evolutionary computation, neural networks, genetic
algorithms,
machine learning, statistical methods, optimization techniques,
fuzzy logic, and their applications to data mining, classification,
time series prediction.
My appended resume provides more details on my qualifications.
Dr. Alexei Skurikhin
Mathematics Department,
Institute of Physics & Power Engineering,
249020 Obninsk, RUSSIA.
Phone: (+7-08439)-231-00
E-mail: alexeisk@hotmail.com
RESUME
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LAST NAME: SKURIKHIN
FIRST NAME: ALEXEI
DATE OF BIRTH: May 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH: Irkutsk, Russia
CITIZENSHIP: Russia
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS:
Treugol'naya pl.1-68, 249020 Obninsk,
Kaluga Region, Russia
TELEPHONE: (+7-08439)-231-00
EMAIL: alexeisk@hotmail.com
CURRENT POSITION: Mathematics Department,
Institute of Physics & Power Engineering,
249020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia.
FIELD:
Computer Science (Emphasis Automatic Control &
Computer Science Engineering)
TITLE/POSITION: Research Scientist
SPECIALTIES:
Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Statistics,
Fuzzy Systems with a focus on their applications
to data mining and intelligent control of complex systems
EDUCATION
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
February 1996 PhD degree in Computer Science
Jan 92 - Jan 96 Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology
of Russian Academy of Sciences, 142292 Pushchino,
Moscow Region, Russia,
The PhD program with specialization
in genetic algorithms and neural networks
Sept 81 - Feb 87 Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute,
Completed Diploma in Automatic Control Systems
(for the Computer Science and Engineering program)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
BCS - British Computer Society, Special Interest Group of
British APL Association
COMPUTER SCIENCE RELATED EXPERIENCE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Research, design, development, and applications of genetic
algorithms,
artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic and statistical methods.
Application areas are classification, bond rating, pattern recognition,
personal screening, time series prediction.
Design, development, and applications of genetic-based learning
classifier
systems.
Design and development of software for artificial neural
networks,
genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems written in C, C++, Microsoft
Foundation
Classes (MFC), J under MS DOS, MS Windows 3.11, MS Windows 95,
Windows NT.
Development and testing of software for technical data
management systems in C (under MS DOS, MS Windows 3.11,
MS Windows 95, Windows NT).
Design and development of software for computer systems for
scientific research, specifically creating programs for data
acquisition, process control, and data analysis in C, DBase,
Foxbase (under RSX, MS DOS, RSX, MS Windows 3.11).
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 87 - Present Research Scientist
Institute of Physics & Power Engineering (IPPE),
249020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia.
Nov 94 - Sept 96 Programmer and Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Cyco Russia, 249020 Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia.
(Branch of the Dutch company "Cyco Software
Development, BV", Rijswijk, The Netherlands)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (4 of 16)
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Surkan, A.J., Skurikhin, A.N., "Experiments in Bond Rating with
Probabilistic Neural Networks", (accepted, to appear in the Proc.
of the Intern. Conf. on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong,
September 1996).
Skurikhin, A.N., Surkan, A.J., "Messy genetic algorithm evaluates
college student applicants", (accepted, to appear in the Journal of
Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing - first quarter
of 1996).
Surkan, A.J. and Skurikhin, A.N., "Prediction by Neural Networks
Compared
for Energy Control Problems", pages 231-236, Volume 58-I Proceedings of
the
American Power Conference and presented in the Session on Electric Load
Forecasting at Chicago Illinois, April 9-11, 1996.
Skurikhin, A.N., Surkan, A.J., "Messy GA Learns a Classifier
to Design Multiplexers", pages 100-103, Proceedings
of 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computing,
Nagoya, Japan, May 20-22, ISBN 0 7803 2902-3, 1996.
REFERENCES, extended resume with the research interests description,
and complete publication list:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Available on request.
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Subject: . PhD seeks position/Semiconductor Gas Analysis
From: alexandb@titan.oit.umass.edu (Alexander Bolshakov)
Date: 16 Sep 1996 20:41:13 GMT
I am a PostDoctoral Associate who looks for a full-time position with an
industrial company. I am a physicist working as an analytical chemist.
Most of my experience is related but not limited to the trace analysis of
gases used in the semiconductor industry.
KEYWORDS of EXPERIENCE: Plasma, Specialty & Bulk Gases, Semiconductors,
GC-AES, ICP, Air Pollutants, Lasers, Ablation, Microwave/RF, Computers.
* Specialty gases: chlorine, phosphine, arsine, silane, hydrogen chloride,
hydrogen bromide; * Inert gases: argon, helium, nitrogen, hydrogen, air.
I worked with different RF plasmas, including ICP and Glow Discharge, and
Hollow Cathode Sputtering. I handled both vacuum and high pressure gases,
as well as liquid gases. I am familiar with microwave sample preparation.
Personal: Male; Russian; J-1 visaholder; will relocate.
References: from University of Massachusetts, and from TEXAS INSTRUMENTS.
Please find my resume at http://www.harbornet.com/biz/office/bolshak.html
A resume is also available by mail.
Alexander Bol'shakov Phone: 413-549-0072
University of Massachusetts FAX: 413-545-4490
Box 34510, Amherst MA 01003 E-mail: alexandb@titan.oit.umass.edu
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