On Thu, 25 May 2017, CuddleBeam wrote: > Rule XXXX > University Director:
You know, while I think the emerging economy is great and don't want to distract from it, it's been a while since we've had a theme, and the economy is sort of generic as a theme. An elaborated Grants/Departments/scholarship theme is one we've never tried, I think. Maybe to the extent of replacing the political power system; we've been doing Prime Minsters and the like *forever*. We've done - hmm - economic Oligarchs, Kings/Revolutions, successions, and Papal hierarchies. But not academic ones. To prevent takeovers, we've defined longstanding players as Senators and other classifications, but we've never granted Tenure. (of course, this would be done while taking care to promote actual scholarship work, and not make essays, theses, etc. subject to gamesmanship).
