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...Leagues however, have never been a breeding ground for the mayors. The "baseball factories" are in the South and especially the West where the weather is much more conducive to baseball, counting for the seasons that last longer. The Arizona State alumni book includes Reggie Jackson. Rick Monday, Craig Swan, and Bump Wills, Tom Seaver, Bill Lee, Steve Kemp and Fred Lynn each graced the USC campus. Harvard's contributions to the last decade of big league ball is Pete Varney, who played out a mediocre career with the White Sox and who now coaches at Brandeis...
...presence is the protection of the mediocre along with the talented. Furthermore, union presence often creates an adversary situation between faculty and administration. Says Cal State's Dumke: "Under collective bargaining, working together as a community of scholars is just not possible." San Francisco State Biology Professor Lawrence Swan notes, "I see my job as teaching and research and scholarship. I try to shy away from politics...
...Still, Swan voted for the C.F.A. because he believes conditions had made unionization inevitable...
...level institutions, where faculty has power over tenure and academic standards, unions have held almost no appeal. There is also, both inside and outside academia, a good deal of ambiguity about whether professors should organize or go on strike. Says Swan: "There's nothing lower than a faculty member who refuses to teach...
Wrestling may not be as appealing to the eye as Swan Lake, but Phills claims that the sport "can be very attractive if one develops...