MoonlightingAuthor(s): Gordon ClarkSource: AAUP Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Oct., 1975), p. 238Published by: American Association of University ProfessorsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40224866 .

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for professors, and of extra-income prerogatives for chiefs of clinics; the elimination of private medical practice for doctors in university clinics; the upgrading of clinic doctors' wages; the creation of new city and regional universities; the construction of student hous- ing; co-participation university government by teachers, students, and university workers in equal parity, with the appointing of new teachers reserved exclusively to the teaching staff; the right to a uni- versity education for every qualified entrant who studies seriously; a rationalizing of stipendia (180,000 of Italy's 650,000 university students now receive an average $600 a year). These are the salient reforms supported by Communists, Socialists, and Left or Lib- eral Catholic groups

To criticisms that the financial outlay for realizing the reform program would be so great as to make it either illusionary or highly inflationary in an already strained economy, university reformers reply, first, that

rationalizing the university structures will in itself generate considerable resources; and, second, that cleansweeping the archaic, corrupt, inefficient, class- oriented, uneconomic, wasteful, and uncoordinated Italian bureaucratic apparatus will provide not only the surplus funds needed but significantly more.

As ior the wisdom of converting Italy into a func- tioning social economy with a progressive technological infrastructure and the scientifically oriented manage- ment of a population whose growth will be controlled and whose activities will be harmoniously employed in creating the material basis for the good society which has been implanted in this Catholic community's minds and hearts for centuries now - well, that is given in the equation. Or at least it was before the outcome of the Yom Kippur War made it possible for primary producers to commence re-forming the line that was broken by Charles Martel, at Tours, in the year 732.

Moonlighting Sometime between two o'clock, amorphous dream, and amorous wanderings, (Kohoutek fizzling out on astronomers) I composed a reply to the Academic Dean on the nature of literature and when science fiction could be, made a rough mental sketch for a fine review of friend David's new book of poems, and still wrapped in sheets, schemes, dissolving desires, invented an ingenious metal device for cleaning chimneys, thus insuring my children's economic and educational futures.

Then I woke up Marian and described my invention, ending with a mention of somewhere reading that the Japanese use of a wooden pillow decreases circulation to the brain, thus inducing sleep.

"Odd you should

bring that up," she muttered, "for I was just considering getting your son's baseball bat.

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Now, this morning, the distinction between literature and science fiction blurs again, the ideas for my review have gone awry, I can't find a ruler for lining out my invention, nor, as a matter of fact, any reason why my children shouldn't damn well make it on their own - same as I did!

Gordon Clark

University of Maine at Augusta

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