by Chris Cumo

Christina Aguilera, that hard, commercial look in her eyes, lures teenage boys to http://www.christinaaguilera.com. Johann Sebastian Bach, dead 253 years is alive at http://www.jsbach.org. Even Piltdown Man, who was never a man, has a Web page at home.tiac.net/~cri_a/ graphics/pskull.gif. If a pop icon, a dead man and a hoax have Web pages, surely part-time faculty can stake their claim to Cyberspace.

As they do adjuncts might forgive Aguilera her obnoxious preening. Her material-girl instincts sharper than daggers, Aguilera knows how to captivate her audience. Part-time faculty need these instincts to court their audience: students or customers or whatever one calls them these days. Paul J. Watson, research assistant professor of behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque knows the game.

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