July 25, 2003

Making Personal Life Better for All in Academe

To the Editor:

We all know people, in and out of academe, who can't be away from their pager, cellphone, PDA, or computer, and who work weekends and rarely take vacations ("Family Time," June 13). What's different about academe, from my point of view, is that the standards are rarely cut and dried, so one always feels an internal pressure to do more, even if no overt external pressure is applied.

I have to disagree with one of the suggestions in The Chronicle's online

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