The University of Georgia, to protect its students, banned on-campus voting and tailgating at football games. This obviously was a tough decision for a school ranked #13 nationally in tailgating (see ranking here). It didn’t eliminate football games or fraternities, although the university dec[...]
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September 17th, 2020 - 4:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
University of Georgia keeps football and bans voting
May 19th, 2020 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
What will happen to UW and WSU athletics?
The University of Washington and Washington State University athletic departments are run by Jen Cohen and Pat Chun, respectively. As athletic directors, their job duties embrace budgets, which obviously have been impacted by Covid-19 containment measures. It’s still unknown to what extent UW [...]
March 15th, 2020 - 1:31 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Jeff Bezos REMAKES Hong Kong
A NEW YEAR SURPRISE! Jeff Bezos, appearing in a made for Prime TV video, has joined together with Presidents Trump and Xi to announce that Hong Kong will now be managed by the Seattle mega retail company. The announcement was made from the decks of the Octopus, the magnificent Megayacht previously o[...]
November 22nd, 2019 - 12:56 am § in Misc.
Should Dead Paul Allen Own the Seahawks?
Bob Condotta at the Seattle Times just wrote a piece on whether Jeff Bezos should buy the Seattle Seahawks. I have a different question. Why and how should any dead man be able to own a football team? Since Paul Allen’s death on October 2018, the Seahawks have insisted the team is not [...]
How the UW Could Fix the Emmert Mess
The scandals surrounding former UW President Mark Emmert began before he came here and were deepened before he left for his real job as NCAA commissioner. The Washington Post calls NCAA President Mark Emmert “the lord of a feudal state that knows its time is over. “ My two cents: Colle[...]
February 19th, 2019 - 11:54 am § in Uncategorized
Alabama editor urges KKK to “ride again” and lynch Democrats
Update: Racist owner hires black female editor to take paper “in a new direction,” but will retain ownership, NBC reports. Goodloe Sutton, who began working for a small-town newspaper in Linden, Alabama, in 1964 and inherited it from his father in 1985, has a long history of publishing r[...]
BREAKING NEWS: CHINA FINDS DOOMSDAY ASTEROID, NASA IS REASSURING
(TA News, Beijing 8 Feb. 2019) 中国航天局 (The Chinese Space Agency) has released a frightening image taken from the other side of the moon. The ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, bigger than this year’s Super Bowl Stadium is hurtling towards Earth but the NASA Director is reas[...]
October 21st, 2018 - 1:00 am § in Uncategorized
Freedom of speech is not an academic value.
Whether it is a department, a college, a dean, a provost, a learned-journal editor, it is the business of the university to silence voices, not to license them indifferently. Like everyone else these days, I’ve been reading and thinking about what’s happening on campuses when invited speakers ar[...]
What is “shared governance?”
Professor: A disturbing story about the influence of the Koch network in higher education This WAPO story is a warning message to all state universities. including our own. The Administration at Arizona Stare University, our sister campus in the PAC 12, has created a “Freedom Center” [...]
Capitalism is NOT Trumpism
David Brewster Lawrence Summers on what’s profoundly disturbing about Trump’s Carrier deal, signaling deals-based capitalism. It reminds me of the stadium wars, where sports teams threaten to move (as to Mexico or China) and are rewarded handsomely for staying put (until the next round).[...]