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« Reply #1935 on: October 14, 2009, 09:37:37 PM » |
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I have the Google search bar thing instaled in IE. It gives suggestions for phrase completion. The top suggestion after typing 'Oxford Round Table' is 'Oxford Round Table Scam'. Gotta love it.
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« Reply #1936 on: October 15, 2009, 07:36:29 AM » |
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I have the Google search bar thing instaled in IE. It gives suggestions for phrase completion. The top suggestion after typing 'Oxford Round Table' is 'Oxford Round Table Scam'. Gotta love it.
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« Reply #1937 on: October 15, 2009, 04:33:37 PM » |
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I didn't get my annual invite yet. Does this mean I'm too good for ORT, or too bad?
On the bright side, I did receive my annual invite to Who's Who.
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« Reply #1938 on: October 15, 2009, 08:21:16 PM » |
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No invitation. Again. I don't care, I have other friends who care about me, so there!
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« Reply #1939 on: October 16, 2009, 05:08:46 AM » |
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No invitation. Again. I don't care, I have other friends who care about me, so there!
I didn't get one either, but they may have discovered who we are IRL and are leaving us off the lists... that is my positive spin on not being important enough to invite! |
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« Reply #1940 on: October 16, 2009, 08:11:06 AM » |
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I did a search for oxford round table and came up with lots of hits for press releases of faculty that had been invited. Some of them allow for comments at the end of the article. I'm SO tempted to cut loose, but my goal is to embarrass ORT, not individual faculty members.
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« Reply #1941 on: October 16, 2009, 08:26:21 AM » |
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I did a search for oxford round table and came up with lots of hits for press releases of faculty that had been invited. Some of them allow for comments at the end of the article. I'm SO tempted to cut loose, but my goal is to embarrass ORT, not individual faculty members.
A few years back I worked at a place where both the President and the VP went to the ORT. Going to the ORT wasn't as bad as their decision to publicize it on the university's webiste... "This month the Pres and VP attended the presitgious ORT, a meeting of elite academicians from around the world, blah, blah, blah..." I can't count the number of inside jokes that circulated around faculty meetings for the years that followed on account of that. If they hadn't publicized it, I would have chosen to believe that it was simply a questionable use of travel funding. |
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« Reply #1942 on: October 16, 2009, 10:05:49 AM » |
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I did a search for oxford round table and came up with lots of hits for press releases of faculty that had been invited. Some of them allow for comments at the end of the article. I'm SO tempted to cut loose, but my goal is to embarrass ORT, not individual faculty members.
Well, one could argue that embarrassing them will get the word out a LOT faster than what we are doing not. Truth is, ORT is still up and running and they somehow continue to convince faculty to spend copious amounts of increasingly scarce travel $$ (or even worse, personal $$) to attend what is, for all intents and purposes, a jazzed-up tour group. |
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« Reply #1943 on: October 16, 2009, 12:54:43 PM » |
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No invitation. Again. I don't care, I have other friends who care about me, so there!
I didn't get one either, but they may have discovered who we are IRL and are leaving us off the lists... that is my positive spin on not being important enough to invite! I don't like that logic. That means I must not have been posting enough wacko things lately because I simply cannot believe that they could know who I am and NOT want me there to liven up the discussion. C'mon, I get unsolicited PMs and emails from other people who want to meet me based on my posts and papers. How is that not good enough for the ORT? Just for that, I will finish up my current creative writing assignment and submit it to the proper authorities. I'm sure that will garner me an invite for the women in science education sharing their world views on reconciling life with work discussion. |
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« Reply #1944 on: October 16, 2009, 02:00:03 PM » |
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Sometimes the ORT uses an email header such as "Luxry Watch U Deserve!" and "Gigantic tool in 5 secs!" Check your junk mail folder.
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« Reply #1945 on: October 16, 2009, 02:08:08 PM » |
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Sometimes the ORT uses an email header such as "Luxry Watch U Deserve!" and "Gigantic tool in 5 secs!" Check your junk mail folder.
The second one is spot on--anyone bragging about going to ORT will, in face, BE a Gigantic Tool. |
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« Reply #1946 on: October 16, 2009, 07:49:01 PM » |
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Sometimes the ORT uses an email header such as "Luxry Watch U Deserve!" and "Gigantic tool in 5 secs!" Check your junk mail folder.
Ah, so I shouldn't have been deleting those items marked "Sasify you women in 10 minutes"? I wish someone had mentioned that earlier. |
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« Reply #1947 on: October 20, 2009, 07:52:27 PM » |
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Dear Friends,
Having just joined the august company of individuals selected for invitation to the Prestigious Oxford Round Table, I checked it out and did some arithmetic.
I've run tours in Europe and Britain, back in the '80s, and used to rent space for my students at colleges. I calculate that each ORT attendee's room and food costs, generously, about $900. Back when my tours were active, it cost half that. That means the not-for-profit ORTco clears $70,000 per full conference, and only $34k for one that fills halfway. Not bad for a week's work (not subtracting costs for printing and mailing those classy fliers). I noted in the Wikipedia entry for the organization that "In 2008, there were 25 scheduled sessions of the conference—ten in March and fifteen in July/August," (according to the Harris Manchester College website). So multiply that by fifteen, and the directors have to pay themselves an enormous "administration fee."
Yrs, Ahkalmonab
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« Reply #1948 on: October 21, 2009, 07:07:03 AM » |
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the directors have to pay themselves an enormous "administration fee."
Oh, now I feel sorry for those directors because I just hadn't thought about their problems. I mean imagine trying to send out invitations to a scam expensive, but worth it unique opportunity and have to track down suckers far-flung people in a multitude of fields to get their panels filled. |
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« Reply #1949 on: November 12, 2009, 08:41:46 AM » |
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I saw a whole stack of ORT invitations in the incoming mail the other day. I guess my school is just that excellent. And I recently got an email followup from ORT, reminding me of the invitation they had previously sent. They are persistent.
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