So this is the house that Coach Sarkisen built? Now he has abandoned his children and left for richer envrions? Coach Sarkisian: “People don’t understand it, but this is my dream job,” Andrew Villeneuve’s ‘s bitter comments below leave out the quarter billion dollars R[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
December 4th, 2013 - 4:59 pm § in The Ave Scene
Hypocrisy: Highest Paid Washington State Employee Abandons His Job To Move to Southern Californaia
December 4th, 2013 - 11:50 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Ignorance of what the politicians do is no excuse!
How many of us pay attention to the politician’s moves BEFORE they impact us. Politico has a very important piece on the two new people appointed by the Dept of Education to oversee higher education. Neither Ted Mitchell, nominee for undersecretary of education, nor the administration’[...]
November 18th, 2013 - 4:27 am § in Misc.
Sould the UW Privatize and Leave Washington? Ask Mr. Balmer
Tim Egan’s has a very critical comment on Boeing’s decision to have other sates build on a lace tom build the 777x. His comment was inevitable once Boeing moved its home offices to Chicago. Boeing is now a global entity with no more loyalty to Washington State than it does to buil[...]
Berkeley Blog: Scientific Fraud at SCIENCE
Open access is not the problem – my take on Science’s peer review “sting” Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 10/4/13 | 11 comments In 2011, after having read several really bad papers in the journal Science, I decided to explore just how slipshod their peer-r[...]
Mis-Education of Black Children
The African American community puts too much of an emphasis on youth athletics. Sports build character, and teach life lessons that kids can use throughout their life. However, playing sports should be secondary to academics. In the African American community this is far from the case. [...]
October 29th, 2013 - 4:14 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
GMOs for safety
About 2/3rds of the way through this video on high tech safety, watch how UW scientists, working with colleagues at U Colorado show how bacteria can add new genes to plants! These genes are designed to detect bombs at the airports![...]
October 8th, 2013 - 12:34 pm § in The Ave Scene
Faculty Obligations
Sadly, very few of UW are politically visible. … events last summer at UW, Washington State and UW, Wisconsin State Events at the beginning of the summer at two UWs should stimulate UW faculty political activity. Let me start of the right. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued a line-it[...]
October 1st, 2013 - 9:52 am § in America
Of Communists and People of Color
Does Communist Detachment Create People of Color?: What happened to a Jewish family after Castro. Miriam B. Abrahams, a contributor at The Tablet, wrote a memoir of the death of her uncle, a Jew and a Communist, left behind when the rest of her family fled to the US. The uncle was estranged for [...]
September 10th, 2013 - 4:13 am § in The Ave Scene
As UW Funding Dwindles Boeing Moves Engineering Out of State
According to the Seattle Times, Boeing is committed to moving its crown jewels , high tech engineering jobs from Washington state The UW keeps trying to explain to Olympia that huge tech jobs will not stay here if we do not invest in higher ed. Booing sees the light …. Mike Delaney, head of [...]
Academic Freedom and its Misuse by the AAUP
The current issue of the AAUP journal, Journal of Academic Freedom, has the following very disturbing article (excerpt): Palestine, Boycott, and Academic Freedom: A Reassessment Introduction Bill V. Mullen The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 on land home to generations of Arab Palestinians i[...]