Was George Zimmerman afraid? The call for more legal actin against George Zimmerman is based on the idea that his actions were motivated by his fear of a young black man. If so, George Zimmerman is the wrong target. I suspect that Mr. Zimmerman would be a very unusual man if he was not afr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
Commentary by Anthony: The Term “Student-Athlete” Is A Joke.
As a former “Student-Athlete” at the University of Washington I always thought this term was a joke. Coming into the University of Washington from Garfield High School, my GPA was unacceptable by Udubs academic standards. I had a 2.3 and my SAT score was an 890. Frankly, this was wa[...]
June 14th, 2013 - 8:13 am § in The Ave Scene
Racism in College Athletics
The ways of white folks, I mean, some white folks . . . (Langston Hughes) Images are important. Picture this .. an arrogant White man yelling orders to Black workers. At a university where anyone could be fired for using the word “nigger” this image still exists … he image of t[...]
June 13th, 2013 - 9:34 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Genes can NOT be patented!
“We merely hold that genes and the information they encode are not patent-eligible … simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material,” … Clarence Thomas This morning the Supreme Court ruled that human genes cannot be patented! The decision, [...]
ANDREW APRIKYAN CONVICTED BY THE NIH
I have written a lot on THE-Ave.US and n this listserv about Andrew Aprikyan. Andrew is a scientist who was accused of fraud by an anonymous UW faculty member. The case was muddied because of patent issues involving the UW and, I assume, his accuser. The UW conducted its investigation in a manne[...]
April 11th, 2013 - 10:17 am § in Misc.
Did the God of fallen fliers visit the UW?
Looking for pictures of Boeing’s yacht, the “Daedalus” I ran across this. It appears that the Daedalus is tied up to the canal wall just south of the UW School of Medicine! This is all very odd. Why does Boeing have a mega yacht? Why did the name it after an entrepreneur whos[...]
April 5th, 2013 - 4:54 am § in Schools & Colleges
More WGU: “2.6% grad rate for students attending 4 years”
I am wondering if this was written by a WGU PR flack, It certainly attempts to gloss over unpleasant facts Over at the Business Week blog, there are few positive and negative comment about WGU that are worth reading. The one I found most interesting was this defense of WGU by “Russel.”[...]
March 27th, 2013 - 4:16 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW fails to make list of top 25 places to do research
This list from The Scientist is not credible. We could start with the odd idea that science is biology and national chauvinism. The accompanying article begins with a paen to the failure of the National Institutes of Health budget to keep up with inflation and utterly misses the huge impact of[...]
Free Speech Leads to Dismissal of Tenured Faculty at Washington State College
NOTE TO FACULTY: DO NOT — USE YOUR UW EMAIL THE Ave has long suggested that UW faculty use UW email as little as possible. This story makes that point: A recent newsletter of the Society for Human Resources Management: raises disturbing issues of free speech on a Washington state coll[...]