Piracy roams the academic high seas. Last week two prominent Southern educators spoke out about itthough unofficially, because they didn't want to admit out loud that their own faculties were being pillaged.
Said one: "Everybody is raiding everybody else. We just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw aroundsome Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university facultyand only two to destroy it."
Said the-other: "Before the war, when another university...