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Archive for March 4th, 2011

March 4th, 2011 - 10:06 pm § in Misc., UW

URGENT: Call From UW Students For Faculty to Lobby on Monday!

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[...]

March 4th, 2011 - 3:26 pm § in America, Politics

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?[...]

March 4th, 2011 - 2:31 pm § in Uncategorized

Phone Wars

Cick here for video:  Phone Wars[...]

March 4th, 2011 - 2:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges

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 [...]

March 4th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in America, Politics, The Ave Scene

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[...]

March 4th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in America, Schools & Colleges

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,[...]

March 4th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in America, Schools & Colleges, UW

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 [...]