Posts Tagged ‘colleges’
Sunday Morning Links!
* Picard trailer! Disco trailer! Short Trek! It’s truly a Golden Age.
* Some new poems from Jaimee up at her website.
* State DOT orders homeless to leave encampment under I-794 overpass in downtown Milwaukee by Oct. 31. I’m amazed this situation was allowed to go on this long and am worried that it will turn truly ugly now.
* Anyone want to buy a college?
* He Was a Consultant for the Search; Now He’s the Chancellor. And the Faculty Is Furious.
* Now let us proclaim the mystery of speech.
* College Students Just Want Normal Libraries. Fine, but get back to me when you figure out a way to turn that into graft.
* 22-year adjunct (and union leader) denied medical leave by UC Irvine following brain surgery.
* They were never going to land anywhere but “you’re damn right I ordered the code red.” Every Trump scandal follows a playbook. With Ukraine, the playbook finally might not work. If the rule of law meant anything to the American political class, Trump would have been impeached on the first day of his presidency. 2nd Official Is Weighing Whether to Blow the Whistle on Trump’s Ukraine Dealings. Trump’s calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides, leaving some ‘genuinely horrified.’ CIA General Counsel Thought She Made Criminal Referral Based On Whistleblower Info. Bringing back all the classics. Chris Hayes explains it all. Crucial role of right-wing media missing from impeachment coverage. It’s the Republicans, stupid. Even Chris Cillizza gets it.
* I just hope they bring Rick Perry to justice.
* Immigrants will be denied visas if they cannot prove they have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical care, the Trump administration said. The government is simply lawless.
* This Supreme Court Term Will Launch a Conservative Revolution.
* Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor.
* Pharmaceutical Companies Are Luring Mexicans Across the U.S. Border to Donate Blood Plasma.
* Inside TheMaven’s Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill.
* The Four-Day Work Week—Not Just a Daydream.
* Saving the planet without self-loathing.
* Deep dive into the scandal rocking online poker.
* 21-year-old oversleeps jury duty, goes to jail for 10 days.
* US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded.
* The billionaire class: “I’m a fiscal conservative, but a cultural nihilist.”
* Cops can do anything they want wherever they want whenever they want.
* Bootleg film shows Florida prison in all its danger, squalor. An inmate shot it on the sly.
* From the archives: During the season 17 premiere of Sesame Street in 1985, after 14 years, the adults see Mr. Snuffleupagus for the first time.
* And from the other archives: Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House.
* Top Joker burn. Joker and white resentment. Brogan breaks it down.
* House of X: still really good! I’m really interested to see where Hickman takes the franchise from here.
* DC continuity: still utterly bonkers!
* Still the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal that cuts me the worst.
* And know, even in these dark times, there are still heroes in this world.
Wednesday Night Links!
* Reminded today of a recent Facebook post from Jonathan Senchyne: …teaching students to be critical of the institutional logics and power structures which many of them aspire to belong to requires you to open space and time for them to mourn these institutions as anchors and meaning-givers in their lives. Only after that can they begin to think about how best to live in the ruins and to think otherwise. See also: David Palumbo-Liu, on sadness.
* “The university hasn’t laid out long-term goals for the MOOCs, and the numbers don’t bode particularly well for the courses’ overall success,” the editorial reads. “We’re confused as to why an unproven and unused educational experiment that isn’t even aimed at UT students is something the system feels they should continue funding.”
* Disability and the campus visit.
* Is Ivan adjuncting on your campus? Be vigilant, administrators! Meanwhile the Brookings Institution proposes we just let the markets eat adjuncts. Sure, people can choose to pay more for cruelty-free adjuncts if they want, but in these tough times…
* What chairs can do for adjuncts, today. Informed and realistic, striking precisely because the suggestions are so small.
* When I first saw it on Twitter I couldn’t believe the New York Times *actually* headlined their Wendy Davis profile “Can Wendy Davis Have It All?”
* W.H. Auden: “J.R.R., old boy, does this story really need two women?”
* The New Yorker’s culture blog profiles @NeinQuarterly, while their finance blog profiles Klaus Teuber, creator of Settlers of Catan.
* Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US.
* Humans aren’t built to sit all day. This is much healthier.
* Climate map of every Winter Olympics. On Sex in the Olympic Village. The Shoshi Games.
* Just Ten Colleges Take in One Sixth of All Donations.
* And listen: you should really just be reading Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal every day.
Thursday!
Thursday!
* I’ll be posting this year as a HASTAC Scholar at the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboatory. My first post is about status update activism of the sort that is all over your Facebook newsfeed today.
* Speaking of health care, Olympia Snowe now runs your health care.
* LRB makes an impressively desperate bid for my attention with Fredric Jameson’s review of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood alongside reviews of Inglourious Basterds and Inherent Vice.
* Madoff-mania: The SEC—which he claims he was shortlisted to chair (!)— now admits it badly mishandled multiple investigations of his company. Still more here.
* Kevin Carey nicely notes the difficulty inherent to blogging about a book you’re two-thirds through with. Another post or two on Infinite Jest soon. The total collapse of blogging at A Supposedly Fun Blog is one of the great disappointments of Infinite Summer, I think.
* Hiding adjuncts so the U.S. News rankings can’t find them. Meanwhile, this year’s Washington Monthly undergraduate rankings leave Duke out of the Top 25.
* So you’ve invented a board game. (via)
* 68 Sci-Fi Sites to See in the U.S.
* And Gawker declares the Michael Cera backlash has officially begun.
A Few More
A few more.
* Acephalous explains what it is to write a dissertation.
* Is college a waste of time for most people? Ask Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve! Better yet, read Matt “Harvard” Yglesias on the subject, whose opinions have the advantage of furthering academia as a growth industry and therefore, by extension, my job prospects.
The real answer, of course, has to do with how you define “waste,” “time,” “most people,” and “college.” In the contemporary American context, a college degree by and large is the price of admission to the middle class, and “worth it” on that basis alone—but there are other possible cultural and economic contexts, with no guarantees that ours is either optimal or permanent. College is also, again by and large, a pretty enjoyable way to spend a few years figuring out what sort of person you’re going to want to be. The latter will remain true even if the former subsides, though it does seem to me unlikely that people will be willing to shell out quite so much money just for critical thinking skills and parties on the weekend.
* The works of Philip Roth, Chuck Palahniuk, and Haruki Marukami demonstrate in the New York Times how to tell a book by its cover.
U.S. News rankings through the years. Now you can experience over two decades of the world’s least meaningful survey in the privacy of your own home. Here are the ’08 numbers.
Still Waiting
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Still waiting.
* It’s not exactly Douchiest College honors, but Duke is #14 on the Times‘s ranking of top 200 universities worldwide.
* Bitter Laughter reports by way of Nate Silver that public option opt-out may be a compromise that can actually get through the Senate—and Steve Benen agrees it’s not a bad thing.
* Also in health care: Olbermann’s hour-long “Special Comment” from last night, which wasn’t nearly as unbearable as I imagined it would be when I heard it was coming.
* A second NJ-GOV poll—albeit one taken before Fatgate—shows Corzine up, this time by three.
* Lots of talk today about this New York Times genealogy of Michelle Obama, focused on an enslaved ancestor who was raped by her owner.
* Pee before you fly. It’s funny how low-cost, outside-the-box carbon solutions—like Stephen Chu’s suggestion that we paint our roofs white—are never taken seriously. It’s like our society has a death wish.
* The literary journal is dead. Long live the literary journal.
Written by gerrycanavan
October 8, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged with airplanes, BCR, carbon, climate change, colleges, Duke, ecology, health care, Jon Corzine, Keith Olbermann, New Jersey, obesity, politics, public option, race, slavery, Special Comments, writing