Ed. This is an open letter to the AAUP, urging them to move their valuable listserv off campus. My letter reflects a post that is now old news from 2007 and from another university, Cornell in 2007. But the Cornell story illustrates the need for a free and open discussion by our own faculty. W[...]
Archive for April, 2011
April 13th, 2011 - 6:25 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP Shuts Down Listserv: An Open Letter to the AAUP:UW
UW borrows 200 million to build stadium, Berkeley borrows 7 million to set up online classes
(Berkeley) officials … said on Friday that finding enough outside support had been a challenge. The university has secured the option to borrow $7-million to help pay for the project and may spend $4-million to $7-million of that money over the next several years, he said. Meantime .. the UW[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 2:15 pm § in Politics
Tim Eyman gets Sammie Award
CHICAGO, April 6 – Tonight, the Sam Adams Alliance (SAM) announced the winners of the 4th annual Sammies awards. Nearly 400 guests, including John Stossel, Andrew Breitbart, and Brad Thor, took part in the celebration of ordinary Americans who take extraordinary steps to advance freedom[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 1:46 pm § in Misc.
Michael Jackson Statue Erected in London
from the Independent: Michael Jackson – Fulham’s chairman Mohammed al Fayed says that fans can “go to hell” if they don’t like the new statue of the pop legend Ed. Seattle has Lenin and London has the successor to the Beetles. Makes sense to me! [...]
Illegal activity on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem
Ed. Imagine visiting a former home, the place your ancestors lived for hundreds of years. There is a cemetery there, now owned by THEM, the people who drove your ancestors out. You walk around finding gravestones with your family’s name. The gravestones are hard to find because a con[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 11:40 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
McKinsey celebrates WGU as part of its Walmart approach to higher education…
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions Increasing the proportion of the adult population with a higher-education degree is critical to creating opportunities for individuals and sustaining the country’s economic growth. Yet college attainme[...]
WGU vs. Phoenix .. getting your BGED in Biology.
The Seattle Times reports that online schools are replacing the community colleges as place to get the bachelor’s equivalent degree. A new version of the GED is now emerging .. I call it the BGED .. Bachelor’s Graduation Equivalent Degree. Like their online high school equivalents, som[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 8:58 am § in America
More Medical Marijuana Madness
from How Do These Morons Get Elected? by Lee on HA Lee Rosenberg is a marijuana fanatic on HorsesAss who seem to to think the freedom to smoke reefers ranks with the epochal civil rights wars and current budget debacle. Most of what he says is OK but when ti comes to medical marijuana he […][...]
April 12th, 2011 - 8:06 am § in Jews
Judaism: German ‘thought car’ could be driven on Sabbath, Rabbi says
Published: 12 Apr 11 11:50 CET A German-designed car that can be driven by thought alone could allow Jews to drive on the Sabbath, a young Rabbi and artificial intelligence scientist says. Rabbi Dror Fixler, an electro-optics expert from Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, told The Local that [...]
April 12th, 2011 - 7:28 am § in Politics
Can Japan Recover?
from VOA Japan’s economic minister says the damage to the country’s economy from last month’s earthquake and tsunami is worse than first thought. Japan had estimated that the damage may total as much as $295 billion, a figure that did not include the cost of possible contamination of food and [...]