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Archive for February, 2011
Wise on Aprikyan, “I can’t say that we would not [in the future].”
By Daron Anderson February 18, 2011 View this day’s paper in PDF …….Janelle Taylor, a UW faculty senator who is also president of AAUP’s UW chapter, became concerned about the adjudication process after assistant research professor Andrew Aprikyan was terminated for scientific mi[...]
February 18th, 2011 - 7:05 am § in Schools & Colleges
End Tenure at UU
from The Daily Utah Chronicle Rep. Christopher Herrod, R-Provo, introduced a bill Monday that he said would encourage more competition for universities by prohibiting universities f(in Utah) rom giving their professors tenure. …. Universities should be keeping the best professors rather than[...]
February 18th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Misc.
Paying Tuition in REAL Dollars
University of Colorado student Nic Ramos can afford to pay for college, thanks to his parents. But he wanted to show his school just how much his semester cost by paying in singles. That’s right – 14,309 dollar bills and some change. “It’s just an absurd amount of money. I wanted[...]
Wisconsin Legislators Join Egyptians in Protest Against Government
Wisconsin Democrats on Thursday fled the statehouse in an effort to prevent legislators from reaching a quorum and passing a bill put forth by Gov. Scott Walker (R), which would cripple the collective bargaining rights of public unions. The move produced a frantic political drama, as state troopers [...]
February 17th, 2011 - 1:39 pm § in Misc.
Biotech and Madoff:the decline and fall of American Pharma.
There are some real reasons that health care in America costs more than anywhere else. One difficult part of this is that we Americans have been subsidizing the entire world because our market model is unique. The American drug market is open to free competition with little in the way of price c[...]
URGENT POLITICAL ISSUE
NOTE: THE-Ave.US is independent of the University. We encourage free speech. Yesterday (Weds. Feb. 16th), state Senator Adam Kline introduced a resolution calling on Congress to adopt a Constitutional Amendment to ensure that that corporations do not have the same rights as people. The state Sen[...]
February 17th, 2011 - 11:29 am § in Uncategorized
Mubarak’s Wealth
Huffington Post Mubarak – and his family have a net worth of at least $5 billion, analysts tell The Huffington Post. Recent media reports pegging the family fortune at between $40 and $70 billion are considered to be exaggerated. Read more here[...]
February 17th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Could UWisc Go Private?
from Todd Finkelmeyer at the Cap Times UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin sent an e-mail Wednesday night to the UW System’s Board of Regents, and to other chancellors across the system, asking them not to oppose Wisconsin’s flagship university breaking away from the system. “There [...]
February 16th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Soros on Democracy in Egypt
George Soros from the Washington Post …… In reality, Israel has as much to gain from the spread of democracy in the Middle East as the United States has. But Israel is unlikely to recognize its own best interests because the change is too sudden and carries too many risks. And some U.S[...]