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Archive for January, 2011
CENSORSHIP: China’s Big Sis Offers a Bad Vision for US Campus
based on material from Secrecy News and the San José Mercury An unclassified report from the CIA, describes the Student Informant System [SIS], a campus spy network established by China’s totalitarian government following Tiananmen Square in 1989. ‘ The report says that “the prin[...]
Should We Shrink Colleges And Admit Fewer Students?
I’m good at asking questions that I don’t know the answer to. Does this mean the four universities, two graduate schools, and three community colleges I attended did a good job of teaching me how to think? (Another question I don’t know the answer to!). I do know that colleges have[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 10:12 pm § in UW
Tuition-Setting Authority: There’s Work to Do First
from Publicola By Rep. Marko Liias, In 2009, I proudly led the fight on the floor of the State House of Representatives against a proposal to increase tuition at our state colleges by nearly 30 percent. We came within one vote of succeeding and our fight sent a strong message about the political r[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 5:04 pm § in Politics
Egyptian Democracy?
Somehow I doubt that this is going anywhere. Our concept of democracy stems from a nascent middle class society. I doubt Egypt is ready. Reza Aslan wrote about this in his history of Islam. What was once a real democracy movement in Egypt, he says, was undermined by a lack of outside support[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 2:28 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Record Applications to Harvard College
Nearly 35,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2015 for entry in August, an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year’s record 30,489, and of more than 50 percent since 22,955 applied four years ago.[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 11:51 am § in Schools & Colleges
Rush Limbaugh Opposes the Academic 1%!
Limbaugh’s Class Warfare Vs. College Presidents By John K. Wilson Rush Limbaugh normally hates class warfare. So it was a bit unusual today when he came out and denounced millionaires. Of course, Limbaugh only hates one particular kind of millionaire: college presidents. Limbaugh declared, the bo[...]
Do We Want to Be Greece?
Paul Ryan says the US could become Greece! Paul Ryan, (R, Minn) gave the Republican response to Obama last night. The Congressman is said to be the best and brightest of the new right. Perhaps so, but his speech was irrational. Rather than focusing on any strategy for economic recovery, or eve[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 11:20 pm § in America
Paul Nurse on Climategate and Scientists Speaking Out
from The Independent Sir Paul Nurse, t Nobelist and president of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of sciences, urged scientists to speak out against the media hype. … “This is far too important to be left to the polemicists and the commentators in the media. Scienti[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 10:24 pm § in Misc.
SEC Accuses Seattle Genetics Employee of Insider Trading
Luke Timmerman at Xconomy Reports on SEC Charges Against a Seattle Genetics Company. The comonay has a breakthrough new technology that chemically links antibodies to anticancer drugs. Seattle Genetics had some great news for shareholders and cancer patients last September, … when the compan[...]