gmf@uvacs.UUCP (07/20/84)
The talk about snobs, preferring mediocrity, etc., reminds me of an erstwhile dean of a Letters & Science School in a certain university (with Letters instead of Arts to accomodate a school containing Communication Arts and Fine Arts ). The dean was proposing and and backing an honors program. A faculty member, who may have been expressing a majority opinion, said "But isn't that elitism?" "My God," said the dean, "I hope so." Of course, he's no longer dean. Gordon Fisher