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  1. Reasoned defence

    It is unclear whether recent reports of "peer censorship" amount to anything more than "peer criticism", itself an exercise of academic freedom ("Peer pressure curbs language", September 7). Even...

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  2. UCU fees don't add up

    The time has come to pay University and College Union subscriptions for 2007 08. My subscription request outlines, without explanation, different rates for former Association of University Teachers...

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  3. The ring of truth

    I was intrigued by the chastity ring inscribed with "THES" ("Mystique of the virgin", September 21). I assume this is because you represent untainted purity, not impenetrability. Alan Woodley...

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  4. Grant defence

    Christian Fleck faults the European Research Council on many counts, the main one being the great number of applications and the small ratio of success ("Grant contest proves ill-conceived lottery",...

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  5. One we nicked earlier

    Ian Marshall suggests that lecturers should avoid "wasting potential research time" by downloading lectures from the internet and reading them out ("It is time we tamed the tyranny of technology",...

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  6. Voice of the Other America

    Forty years after his death, American protest singer Woody Guthrie still fascinates. Will Kaufman , an academic who doubles as a Guthrie tribute artist, offers his own personal take, while Lee...

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  7. Head cases or a healthy scepticism?

    For as long as there has been a medical orthodoxy, there have been patients seeking alternatives to it, from mesmerism to homeopathy to reiki. So does that make them gullible, asks Roberta Bivins, or...

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  8. Nobody f***s with my speakers

    Or at least they didn't, says veteran talks organiser Marquard Smith, until a recent event when it all went maddeningly, horribly wrong I often wonder why so little academic research has been...

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  15. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical record of life in America's South: "One winter morning in the long-ago,...

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