While the money is tight right now, Mrs. DeCaumette said, she has survived because there is a tradition of sharing and helping in her family.
Last year in the Savor Sangha, we began a tradition of sharing our intentions with each other on Facebook, in the safe space of an event wall.
That said, given the lack of a tradition of sharing within other research communities, it may be important that funding bodies give such recommendations and direction to facilitate sharing.
The commons, a leftover from the Anglo-Saxon traditiof of shared usage of the land, were eaten away by centuries of enclosures (a euphemism for theft), a process that no amount of peasants' revolts or angry levelling of hedges could reverse.
Re "Monopoly's Money," Nov. 6: The article was littered with inaccuracies and missed the fact that Nascar is a successful business model that has a long tradition of sharing the wealth to ensure long-term growth for all its constituents, including drivers, team owners and tracks.
How about reviving the tradition of shared agency as well as responsibility that has been a signature item of the great Democratic presidencies of our time?
On many campuses, faculty oppose the spread of MOOCs, angry that their universities joined in with little consultation, undercutting the tradition of shared governance.
Taking a page from the "University" of Phoenix script, they seek to run the "delivery" and "management" of course materials, stripping these vital functions from faculty, undermining the tradition of shared governance, and putting more power in the hands of unqualified administrators and managers.
