As editor of THE-Ave.US I very much want this site to be truly balanced. On problem I face is that out national media no longer are balanced. Leaving off the tabloid extremism of Murdock’s chain, CNN, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS are now so US-parcohail and so superficial as to be nearly worthless. [...]
Archive for January, 2011
January 20th, 2011 - 1:36 pm § in America
Republicans Propose $2,500,000,000,000 in cuts.
Here is the List (below the break). The list intentionally excludes defense and homeland security. Much of it borders on facetious. There are a few attacks on education, cultural and academic areas (in blue) but the surprises are in what is left out. There are no proposed reductions in: Agricult[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 12:55 pm § in Uncategorized
Old Harvard Rubes Can Not Figure Out the Intertubes
Just got this email from the Harvard Alumnae Assn. They want “$100 to support the extra production and mailing costs of this weighty, hardcover tome” .. ie.e the 50th anniverart report for my graduating class (’63). How quaint! I would donate $100 to a shcolarship fund if Harva[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
What would happen if Apple stopped creating new products?
There is a lot of fantasy going on about ways of cutting costs at public universities while somehow compensating with scholarships or creating private endowments for public schools. AINT gonna happen! Here in Washington state, the state part of the cost of higher ed is already down to 30% … [...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:14 am § in Uncategorized
Berkeley Chancellor on Campus Violence
Recently the AAUP listserv has run a serious of emails from faculty upset by students involved in a game called “Humans and Zombies.” Apparently, students involved in the game stalk each other on campus and shoot each other with pellet guns that look realistic except for an orange tip on[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Humor: Cartoon Satires of Academic Careers
from xtranormal.com “So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities” “So You Want to Be an [Academic] Librarian” “So You Want to Be a Historian?” “So You Want to Go to Law School” “So You Want to Be a Journalist” “So You Want to Get a Ph.[...]
January 19th, 2011 - 11:36 pm § in Politics
State Representative Marko Liias: Tim Eyman is an ignorant blowhard
from Permanent Defence Published on January 26th, 2011 State Representative Marko Liias gave Eyman a piece of his mind in a Facebook note posted last night. It read, in part: I have proposed a simple little bill to give local transit agencies one way to protect transit service and reduce congestion.[...]
Seattle Times: Live chat about higher education in Wash. state
Seattle Times higher education reporter Katherine Long will answer your questions at 1 p.m. on Thursday about how higher education is funded in Washington, what cuts have been made to date due to the budget shortfall, and what the impacts have been to the state’s colleges and universities. Sub[...]
January 19th, 2011 - 3:05 pm § in Uncategorized
Major Change at the NIH
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A National Center for Research Resources task force charged with moving programs that have been conducted by NCRR, has issued an early plan of where at the National Institutes of Health some of these programs will find homes under a planned reorganization. NCRR is being[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope’s Blood Now a Relic
(Huff Post) WARSAW, Poland — A vial containing blood drawn from Pope John Paul II shortly before he died will be installed as a relic in a Polish church soon after his beatification later this year, an official said Monday. Ed. comment This might be more quaint and benign if we are NOT still recov[...]