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Monday, February 4, 2008 12:00 AM

I'm a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.

I love being a grad student stripper but I'm worried about fallout from family and professors.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Monday, February 4, 2008 08:22 PM

    Way to commit professional suicide

    Cary Tennis and all those suggesting you do this don't have a clue. When they find out, your undergraduate students will eat you alive. Your colleagues will treat you as a joke. Whatever position one might take on the ultimate morality of all this, you can forget about an academic career if you do it --- except maybe in some backwater where none of the academics have much credibility.

    —John Carson Read John Carson's other letters

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