Dear UW faculty colleagues, The following message has been approved by the AAUP executive board for distribution to faculty. UW President Ana Mari Cauce circulated an email to faculty, staff and students (14th April) stating the current interim Provost Baldasty has performed in his role for the last[...]
Archive for April, 2016
Why are we building another law school….?
UW Tacoma has announced they are building a new law school. How much of this is pork, another way to subsidize the Tacoma economy? While UWT does a lot of good, anyone who visits the “city of destiny ” knows, that this campus is terribly important to a local economy that has not develope[...]
April 21st, 2016 - 9:05 am § in Uncategorized
Familiarity breeds contempt
Here’s an interesting factoid from Tuesday’s primary: Trump lost only one congressional district in New York. Guess which one? Where he lives. The people who know him best like Kasich better. (Read the story here.)[...]
MJ: Kosher for Pesach!
First Beans and Rice, Now Marijuana kosher for Passover After smelling the leaves of a cannabis plant, Rabbi Kanievky and Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, another leading Orthodox authority, decided that the plant had a “healing smell” and made the blessing for fragrant leaves. First the Conservative[...]
Mirel: Is Bernie Anti Israel?
Mirel Goldenberg Hamas knows that if they were to deploy their rockets and place the entrances to their terror tunnels in unpopulated areas – as the laws of war require – the Israeli military could attack these military targets without endangering civilians. But Hamas wants Israel to injure and [...]
UW abolishes shared governance II: A response by the President
Response to AAUP comment about the appointment of a UW Provost with no search Before appointing a search committee, I asked for advice as to whether to proceed with such a search at the Senate Executive Committee (Professor Wood was present at that meeting). I further asked that if anyone had con[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 11:24 pm § in Misc.
Ben Carson Feels Andrew Jackson Has Been Wronged
Poor Ms. Taubman will be carrying Andrew on her back! Ben Carson is complaining that Obama did an injustice to Andrew Jackson by putting Harriet Taubman on the face of the $20 bill. So sad. I realize that an Oreo like Ben has trouble. How can he expect to understand how those of us who [&hel[...]
So, what did the DNA test show?