To concerned faculty The ASUW Office of Government Relations, in conjunction with the Washington Student Association, is participating in a statewide lobby day down in Olympia on this coming Monday, 3/7/11. In response to the recent and proposed cuts to higher education we want to present a united f[...]
Archive for March 4th, 2011
Obama’s Successor at Harvard Law Review .. Gay
Mr. Mitchell Reich, a second year at Harvard Law School, was elected the first openly gay president of the Harvard Law Review. Reich, a Yale College and Dalton School graduate and Manhattan native, is the 125th president of the esteemed publication. I assume Mr. Reich is not Hawaiian?[...]
Japan: Should Smart Phones be Allowed in Exams?
TOKYO — Japanese police arrested a teenager accused of cheating on his university entrance examination by consulting online forums with his mobile phone, prompting outrage Friday in this gadget-loving country that prizes hard work and fairness. The arrest of a 19-year-old applicant to prestigious [...]
Citizens United Workshop Preps Amendment Advocates
When I arrived for the "After Citizens United" workshop on the blustery Seattle waterfront, a dozen people were chatting. When another half-dozen showed up, co-leader Craig Salins started by colorfully and concisely summarizing the quantum shift toward corporate hijacking of elections since the ruli[...]
UC Berkeley protests
BERKELEY, Calif. (story from AP)— Baton-wielding riot police at the University of California, Berkeley faced off Thursday evening with a growing number of demonstrators angry over state education cuts. Eight protesters occupied the fourth-floor outside ledge of the university’s Wheeler Hall,[...]
OSU Charged with Arbitrary, Political Action to End Students’ Careers
Ed. The lack of due process in the UW’s Aprikyan affair undermines the public trust a university need. That trust is not in the administration, it is a trust in the rigor of academic ethics. The following story, whatever the truth, is warning shot about what can happen when University [...]