As we approach the last day to mail ballots, I am struck by the lack of participation of the University of Washington faculty in the 2014 election. That lack is probably reflected in the fact that few of our issues have come to be discussed by the candidates. I assume most faculty fully support the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Washington State’
How UW Faculty Ought to Vote in This Election
Ballot Recommendations: Two Sets of Similar Ideas
Geov Parrish: This year’s general election ballots have been mailed out, and they’re…long. And complicated. Not to worry – I’m here to help. Because buried among the judicial races and “advisory vote” nonsense are some genuinely important, meaningful choices. Unlike this Augus[...]
Yes, We Need A Republican Party
Let’s face it, the GOP has plenty of followers, whether we like it or not. These include flat earthers, birthers, tinfoil hatters, flying saucer and black helicopter believers, Ku Kluxers, abortion doctor killers, and other assorted misfits and morons. Look, I’m not against having a [...]
October 21st, 2014 - 9:45 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Umbundling Tenure
From Inside Higher Education: The fact is that much of the debate, in the United States and elsewhere, about the challenges facing higher education is focused in the wrong direction. Rather than constantly squeezing the professoriate and trying to ensure maximum productivity in narrowly defined area[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 9:45 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Spokane City Council Endorses WSU’s Medical School Scheme
The Spokane City Council has endorsed WSU’s plan to part ways with a UW-run program that trains doctors for 5 states and ask the Legislature for startup money for a new medical school in Spokane, the Pacific Northwest Inlander reported tonight. UW Medical School has proposed adding capacity to[...]
THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel? Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. I[...]
Does the UW Offer Too Few Sports Opportunites for Huskies?
We hear a lot about the income from the UWs pre-professional sports being used to pay for less valuable varsity activities. I happened to look at the Harvard Gazette tonight. Odd but it seems that Harvard’s AD, with far less income than the Huskies, supports a lot more sports than we have.[...]
Who needs water?
SPOKESMAN-REVIEW: Water wait News You don’t have to tell Val and Susan Taylor about the misery of running out of water. For 25 years, they hauled water to their home, flushed toilets sparingly, took showers as if they were camping and reused whatever water they could. The Taylors aren’t al[...]
June 10th, 2014 - 10:38 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
Funding the Schools: Liberal Hypocrisy
PUBLICOLA reports that the much demeaned democrat, Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48, Medina), is coming out at an Association of Washington Business forum for a levy swap, The swap would replace the local K-12 property tax levies with a state property tax increase. Last year, Hunter, who earned the[...]
May 25th, 2014 - 8:53 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Taxpayers Should Subsidize Developers!
Seattle Flirts with a Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face Transportation Policy Excerpts from a guest op/ed at Publicola, By Jon Scholes Two equally misguided tax proposals were floated this week to raise additional funding to pay for public services in Seattle. First, in a Sunday column,[...]