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Old 23-Jul-2008, 23:11
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Default Re: University of Warwick Launches £50,000 Writing Prize

Wouldn't mind £50,000. I'd keep £40,000 and establish a more modest prize worth £10,000 so people would suck up to me for the money.

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All members of the University of Warwick Staff - from nursery staff and gardeners to professors and porters - are invited to make a nomination for a prize entry by August. Warwick's honorary professors and honorary graduates will also be asked to make nominations.
Isn't this just a teensy-weensy bit Victorian...? Because there appears to be one category for the working classes (professors do work, you know), plus one for the worthies: the honorary professors and graduates.

I could do better things with £50,000 than build a gazebo.

Equal opportunism all round, is what I say.
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