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				<a href="http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/05/ivorytower.jpg"></a> While academia occasionally manages to maintain the veneer of being 'civilized,' academic battles of words can frequently be just as epic as anything occurring outside the Ivory Tower &mdash; even when couched in elegant language and well-reasoned points, you can tell people are out to draw blood.   So it (sort of) is with Roger Travis, a classics professor who wrote a passionate plea for gamers to "turn the tables on Aarseth and other doyens of game studies" in the <i>Escapist</i>:				<a href="http://kotaku.com/389262/academics-vs-gaming-academics-let-the-snark-begin" title="Click here to read more about Academics vs. 'Gaming' Academics: Let the Snark Begin">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<category><![CDATA[Ian Bogost]]></category>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 May 2008 16:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie Greene]]></dc:creator>
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