Where does this sad event lead? Are we headed to some sort of bicameral, corporatist 1984 where Big Brother and Big Sister compete for our interest .. and votes ….by spin from the right and spi9n from the left? Are we headed to an era where Democrat and Republican are corporate brand names [...]
Archive for February, 2011
February 7th, 2011 - 1:14 am § in Schools & Colleges
Regents Shred Faculty Senate at RPI!
from Inside Higher Education, Feb 2, 2011 When the Faculty Senate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute voted, in spring 2006, to widen its membership to include contingent faculty, it set in motion a series of events that left the senate in a state of limbo and shredded the notion of shared governanc[...]
What The New State Supreme Decision On Faculty Discipline Means
This last Thursday, February 3, 2011, the Washington Supreme Court handed down a decision that clarifies the legal framework under which state universities and colleges may discipline tenured faculty members accused of misconduct. The case is Mills v. Western Washington University, Docket No. 83597-[...]
February 6th, 2011 - 11:36 am § in Politics
Al Qaeda’s Odd Silence on Egypt
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we are seeing the dawn of the first Arab democracy? There is an historic irony here. Islam’s explosion out of Arabia under Umar, was more than a military conquest. The Byzantine empire was a rotten relic of Rome. It fell to a more rational, more “modern&[...]
Awards to UW Faculty
Bill Catterall honored with Wachter Research Prize (from UW Medicine) Bill Catterall, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, has been awarded the 2010 Wachter Research Prize by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, for exceptional scientific achievements in all fields of medicine. Catterall was re[...]
February 5th, 2011 - 11:00 am § in Uncategorized
Will God Get Credit For Winning The Super Bowl?
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February 5th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Uncategorized
House Republican Cuts Target the UW
The UW and the Hutch, together comprise one of the highest tiers of federally funded research. Their future may be grim. Where are WA State politicians on THIS issue? UPDATE: From the Chronicle of Higher Education By Paul Basken House Republicans, who gained a majority in the chamber in last Novem[...]
February 4th, 2011 - 6:49 am § in Politics
I want the Egyptian people to win their revolution. And I say this as an Israeli.
Bradley Burston, blog at Haaretz I want our neighbors, the people of Egypt, to show us how it’s done. I want you to show us the last thing we expected to see. Because it is only when we see our best consensus assessments proven dead wrong, when the wholly unanticipated stuns us, when the incon[...]
February 4th, 2011 - 12:27 am § in Politics
Egypt:Hats of Revolution
Images shamelessly lifted from the Guardian.[...]
Is War Inevitable?
No, of course not. War is a human behavior, and we choose our behavior. By simple logic, it follows that we can eliminate war. Totally and permanently. I’m sure your initial reaction is, that’s a very bold statement. Yes, it is. After all, throughout history, human warfare h[...]