Comments on: Money, again! http://marshallandme.com/money-again/ Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:24:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: michael edmunds http://marshallandme.com/money-again/comment-page-1/#comment-38 michael edmunds Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:37:41 +0000 http://hintonandco.com/?p=983#comment-38 Olsberg is correct in his estimation that at Buffalo the papers probably would have formed a place of on-going discourse. Where should the papers have gone! ST. Michael's College where else? I guess a case could be made for the Robarts as well. Look at Frye's papers. Housed at Victoria and with a clear mandate of stewardship, research and publications abound from their. There's an irony that money at UT, St.Mike's was in short supply as the 80's was ushering in the digital revolution and computers were sucking up University budgets. The very technoligical shifts McLuhan spoke of were short changing the idea of grabbing his papers. However suppose that perhaps money may not have been the sticking point... There was little respect for McLuhan either at ST Mike's or the University itself. Leave the papers out of it. What happened to his program itself? When I view it this way, I wonder then if it is a clear cut case that the papers ought to have remained in Cananda at all. (That they were is due to Teri McLuhan's intervention.) Just as it is said that our talents must leave the country to receive recognition at home, perhaps likewise for the papers. Buffalo may have been the best compromise of all. Far but near. Who cares about those papers of the others? It's McLuhan ideas and thoughts that are of prime importance. Olsberg is correct in his estimation that at Buffalo the papers probably would have formed a place of on-going discourse. Where should the papers have gone! ST. Michael’s College where else? I guess a case could be made for the Robarts as well. Look at Frye’s papers. Housed at Victoria and with a clear mandate of stewardship, research and publications abound from their. There’s an irony that money at UT, St.Mike’s was in short supply as the 80′s was ushering in the digital revolution and computers were sucking up University budgets. The very technoligical shifts McLuhan spoke of were short changing the idea of grabbing his papers.

However suppose that perhaps money may not have been the sticking point…
There was little respect for McLuhan either at ST Mike’s or the University itself. Leave the papers out of it. What happened to his program itself? When I view it this way, I wonder then if it is a clear cut case that the papers ought to have remained in Cananda at all. (That they were is due to Teri McLuhan’s intervention.)

Just as it is said that our talents must leave the country to receive recognition at home, perhaps likewise for the papers. Buffalo may have been the best compromise of all. Far but near. Who cares about those papers of the others? It’s McLuhan ideas and thoughts that are of prime importance.

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