Oasis State Park, Portales NM
Sunset, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, October 30, 2011
Situated 6 - 1/2 miles north of Portales NM off NM 467, Oasis State Park is a modest park set among cottonwood trees and shifting sand dunes on the expansive, grassy plains of east-central New Mexico, not far from the Blackwell Clovis site.
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - connection is reasonably fast.
- Go to Oasis State Park website
- Go to Oasis State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Friday, November 19, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Saturday, November 20, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, November 21, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, October 30, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Monday, October 31, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
The Credential of the Dominant
The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.
The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001