Manuel! Manuel! the screams echo as Arizona’s home grown quarterback cocks his arm to throw yet another long ball. Campus heroes are nothing new for theWildcats. This hero. Manuel Ortega, is something else. Son of a gardener, Manuel earned his way through high school by picking up jobs[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wise Huskies’
January 3rd, 2011 - 11:02 am § in America
How to Overturn Immigrant Laws for the University of Arizona
January 3rd, 2011 - 9:33 am § in Misc.
Jake Locker and Singing the Team-Spirit Blues
cartoon by William Brown for The Chronicle of Higher Education The UW won a bowl game! I was busy but my wife watched as Jake Locker topped off his season of Husky fame. It is fun when the Huskies have a genuine local, Washington State hero! With all that, it seemed to me that things […][...]
December 31st, 2010 - 8:27 am § in Schools & Colleges
A Prof Responds to a Teacher
Last night I listened to a teacher complain to a panel of state representatives . “Eric” asked: “why the legislature continually adds more requirements and duties to teachers while simultaneously cutting our pay. Other state employees who have had their pay cut are receiving comp[...]
December 31st, 2010 - 12:59 am § in Misc.
Do The Huskies Make Money?
If they do, they are VERY unusual. Eddie Pells at the Huffington Post reviews the numbers for major football schools Even those teams that claim to make money, never seem to pay a “profit” of more than 5% back to their university. That is pretty sparse when you realize that the indirec[...]
December 17th, 2010 - 2:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Huskies Outrank Harvard!
OK .. I did not say WHICH Huskies: Published by Ricky Liu on December 17, 2010 at 10:52AM from the Harvard Crimson: CRIMSON VS. HUSKIES 2009 – Year that UConn’s men’s basketball team last made an appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Huskies have made 28 postseason appearances in the history [...]
December 11th, 2010 - 3:55 am § in Misc.
UW Senate Reviews Emmert’s Arbitrary Decisions in the Aprikyan Case
News on Aprikyan (see previous entries here): The Senate leadership and the Secretary of the Faculty are seeking advice from the Advisory Committee on Faculty Code and Regulations about the principles upon which the President based his overturning of the faculty Panel’s decision. The plan is for[...]
How the UW Admin “Talks” To Its Community.
I am posting the latest “UW Today” digest because I think the UW NEEDS to do a much better job of communicating. Second, I would like people off campus to realize who insipid the UW’s communications really are. UW Today is insipid, like any corporate in house newsletter. UWT re[...]
November 24th, 2010 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
UW Faculty Council Chair Defends Stadium
Letter from William Rorabaugh (AAUP Listserv ay UW) Colleagues – A couple of points. First, revenue bonds have long been used by UW to build facilities. Parking structures are built with bonds to be paid off with future parking revenues. The Med School K-Wing’s research space was b[...]
UW to LEND $210,000,000 to Huskies?
The UW is planning to rebuild Husky stadium at a cost of $250,ooo,000. Purportedly this cost was to be born by bond issues and paid back from private contributions and stadium revenues. NOT SO FAST. Now it appears that of the $255,ooo,ooo, only $14.5 million has come from private sources! In[...]
Did Nike Pay for Oregon’s Victory?
The Huskies lost to Oregon. Or did they really lose to Nike? Last March, Oregon concluded an unpublished contract for support from Nike through 2018. UW folks may not realize it but Oregon alum, Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, not only donates to the schools athletics but has claimed this money [...]