from ACADEME BLOG by John Wilson Last month the Chicago Tribune had a lengthy front-page article about how the University of Illinois’ general fund subsidizes the athletic program with $920,000 in free tuition waivers for student athletes. The University plans to reduce this number to $500,000[...]
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November 19th, 2011 - 2:22 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Phyllis Wise Will Cut Athletic Subsidy at Her New U
August 3rd, 2011 - 10:59 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Phyllis Wise Leaving The UW!
New UI chancellor named Wed, 08/03/2011 – 12:24pm | Paul Wood UPDATED 12:20 p.m. The Urbana campus has a permanent chancellor for the first time in almost two years. Her name is Phyllis Wise; for the first time, all three University of Illinois chancellors are women. Her new job is effective[...]
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[...]
January 4th, 1942 - 12:12 pm § in Misc.
Sayings by the wisest one: on Nirvana
The thoughtful life is a painful stroll through a convoluted, masturbatory and inaccurate thought process.[...]
January 4th, 1942 - 11:25 am § in Misc.
SAYINGS OF THE WISEST ONE
Pixels add to the carbon load. Nothing is free.[...]
How’s this campaign slogan?
BLOCKHEAD FOR GOVERNOR VICE PRESIDENT Hey that wasn’t my idea. To skip the partisan stuff, I’m gonna pretend I’m a campaign consultant who’ll work for a candidate of any party. (“Gun for hire” doesn’t work well in this context, for reasons you’ll soon [...]
May 2nd, 2024 - 2:18 pm § in Law and Courts
Child-mistreating judge is reprimanded and reassigned
She was ambushed. The 13-year-old girl was in court to support her father, who was about to be sent back to jail for violating the terms of his supervised release. He worried about his daughter. They lived in a bad neighborhood, she had smoked some weed, and while in jail he wouldn’t be there [...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 4:01 am § in Law and Courts
Guns are changing American life
An entire generation of American kids are growing up in fear of being gunned down in their classrooms, or shot at a shopping mall. The NRA likes to say, “An armed society is a polite society,” but the data say otherwise. Guns are now the leading cause of death of Americans under age 19 ([...]
May 30th, 2023 - 11:27 pm § in Science
Could AI cause human extinction?
Experts are raising alarms about artificial intelligence (AI), saying it threatens human existence. A group of scientists and tech industry insiders rate the risk of “extinction from AI” as being on a par with “other societal-scale risks” like pandemics and nuclear war. They [...]