I am posting the latest “UW Today” digest because I think the UW NEEDS to do a much better job of communicating. Second, I would like people off campus to realize who insipid the UW’s communications really are. UW Today is insipid, like any corporate in house newsletter. UWT re[...]
Archive for December, 2010
Anybody Here a Republican? DADT
Only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent call themselves independent, and the rest don’t know or will not tell. This number from a recent PEW report is not surprisng, but does have worrisome political implications in the era of witches [...]
December 6th, 2010 - 6:59 pm § in Christianity
My Birthday Falls on a A Catholic Festival Day:Jesus’s Bris!
Yes, it is true .. I am a New Year’s baby. It is a wonderful thing to celebrate my birth with 3 billion other humans! How many of them know WHY Jan. 1 is celebrated? In the Catholic Calendar of Saints this is the feast of the holy circumcision! Well it was on the calendar […][...]
December 6th, 2010 - 5:46 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Back to The Future
A Two Tier University System, UW vs. UK? based on an article by Arthur M. Hauptman in the Chronicle England’s conservative government is turning Britain “back to a future” where its education system looks remarkably like its past of a 100 years ago, an elitist system with two tiers[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 2:08 pm § in Misc.
UW Dropout Holds Forth:
UPDATE Berkeley just raised its tuition to over $50,000. How does this affect OUR students? Read a comment from a UW dropout. You might also want to click on the tuition tag or privitization tags. The University of Washington is not aiding in my entrepreneurial endeavors but only detracting fr[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 12:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Lets Get Rid of Philosphy and Anthropology!
Philosophers and Anthropologists Defend Threatened Programs By Peter Schmidt (Chronicle of Higher Education) Leaders of both the American Philosophical Association and the American Anthropological Association have urged Howard University to preserve programs in their respective fields as it contem[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 11:31 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Hitchens offers a powerful statement appropriate during Hannukah.
Hitchens offers a powerful statement appropriate during Hannukah.[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 11:25 am § in Schools & Colleges
Condoleezza Rice: Are the Dreams of American Education Coming to an End?
Condoleezza Rice on what is happening to education in the US: “Today, I’m concerned about this [inequality] when I can look at the zip code and tell whether or not you’re going to get a good education. This is terrifying,” ……“As an educator, it’s the lost potential, as a R[...]
Yeshiva’s Maccabeats: Jews vs Greeks
Happy Hannuka! and an opposing view:[...]
December 3rd, 2010 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
Hype, Splash and Scientific Journals
NASA announced they had found a new kind of life . This kind of hype is all too common even in the most prestigious scientific journals. Nature and Science, sitting on top of the prestige heap, both give too much priority to splash and even publish work that less political journals reject. Publi[...]