Saturday, June 13, 2009

Of low stakes and academic politics


In the bitter fight over "Oxford University's professorial seat in poetry", for which elections were held recently, do you want to know how low the stakes were? The Economist has the answer [via Aurelie Thiele]:

This year, out of more than 4,000 academic staff and 150,000 graduates, only 477 people bothered to vote.

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