A Relative Writes: “You mention Miranda rights on your recent post. Were you recently arrested, or is some officer of law about to arrest you?” For some reason, this relative decided I must have been arrested … even though the post dealt with lawyers misusing the law by pretendin[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
December 26th, 2013 - 10:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
What Are The Miranda Rights of Students and Faculty on Campus?
December 20th, 2013 - 3:29 pm § in Misc.
A Distinction Between Two Boycotts of Israel
from the UW AAUP listserv, a post by Raya Fidel I’m not familiar with the ASA’s procedures and their deliberations about the boycott statement. But I think it is important to understand that Israel is not a small, poor, week, and persecuted country. Or a country where “indivi[...]
December 16th, 2013 - 5:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
Husky PR:Time to do a better job!
This is what passes for UW Advertising. Nothing terrible about it but let me ask this …. who would send their kid to the school in this ad? This annual UW ad comes across as the product of 1950s Mad Ave folks selling a a party school, The UW here looks like a fun place […][...]
December 14th, 2013 - 4:13 am § in Misc.
Harassing THE Ave editor : Is Bob Raymond Hacking The UW?
My UW Email is Being Attacked Here is an example of less than 24 hours worth of these emails: OR ,,, maybe he is a robot? [...]
December 12th, 2013 - 9:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges
THE UW PRESIDENT: What to do about a leader who undermines his organization?
Is GET a Ponzi scheme? Who knows? Who cares? The real issue is what to do about a leader who undermines his organization. Suppose General Eisenhower had said, “This invasion can’t possibly succeed”? Or Alan Mullaly, upon being named CEO of Ford, said, “Let’s file for ba[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Are we bringing the Walmart Model to the Universities?
Pope Francis has described pay too low to allow workers to better themselves as “wage slavery.” This topic has come up on THE Ave before. Taken to its extreme, Washington State now has “Western Governors University” .. a university with no faculty. at the UW A[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 11:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
While the UW Worries About TA’s Logo, Elsevier Claims Rights to Everything Published in Their Journals
Elsevier is making an effort to shut down Academia.edu. The Academia site is an attempt to allow researchers share their scientific papers freely. Elsevier, of course, makes no original contributions ot Science but has, nuanced thoughts on access to the research. It’s issued requests for thous[...]
December 7th, 2013 - 1:26 pm § in Misc.
THE Ave Has Been Asked to Change Its Logo , ctd
THE Ave Has Been Asked to Change Its Logo While I do not know if there is any relationship, a commentator on THE Ave suggested that because I am (truly) obese and known as more than a bit of a slob, I should adopt the Hamburglar as a new logo for the Ave. I decided […][...]
December 5th, 2013 - 10:44 am § in The Ave Scene
WHO OWNS THE UW LOGO?
THE Ave Has Been Asked to Change Its Logo In response to a post on the UW AAUP listserv The UW is non profit but its components certainly can bring in more than their costs. Consider the sales under the UW logo. Who makes money off of that? Who actually owns the logo … the […][...]
Proposed Revisions To UW Faculty Code.
HOW WELL DOES THE UW FACULTY CODE PROTECT ACADEMIC DREEDOM? A proposal (see document) has been sent to the UW faculty to revise our Code to address protections for Faculty Free Speech. My own opinion is that the proposal is weak and may even decrease faculty rights. The UW faculty do not ha[...]