UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. The American Association of University Professors has been sending me its mass e-mailings. Some of them amuse, but I don't have time for witty rejoinders. Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek does.

If you make the dismissal of adjunct professors more difficult, you’ll thereby raise colleges’ costs of hiring adjuncts. As a result, fewer adjuncts will be hired. So it’s doubtful that your efforts will help the very persons whose well-being you claim to champion.

What is clear, though, is that success at increasing the cost of hiring adjunct professors will benefit those of us who work as full-time faculty. Because adjuncts compete with full-time faculty, making adjuncts more costly to hire will raise the demand for, and hence raise the salaries of, full-time faculty. It will also prompt colleges to hire greater numbers of full-time faculty.

I'm not sure. Leave the faculty salaries the same, increase the size and number of classes in the job description, find people among the academic reserve army who will accept those terms.