December 5, 2003

What Professors Can Teach Fund Raisers -- and Vice Versa

By CAROL KOLMERTEN

As I slouched in my chair in the large, drafty ballroom filled with other people eagerly taking notes, I felt that old, familiar distancing and rising anger, so long forgotten from my undergraduate years decades ago.

Back then, after hearing something patently absurd in class, I would glimpse other students nodding to each other with tacit understanding -- seeming to be part of some club that I was excluded from, seeming to have some understanding of the world that I did not. I

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