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The Suicides

The saddest of university events in September are the suicides of sensitive, displaced, and troubled freshmen. To a new school...

Generations

Garrison Keillor recently wrote something to the effect that it's shocking to wake up one morning and realize that the...

Overheard

EXT. BENCH NEAR STUDENT CENTER - DAY A PROF eats his lunch from a Styrofoam bowl. Enter his acquaintance, who...

The Sounds of Silence

Evil HR Lady gave me a heads-up regarding a question she received about adjoining faculty offices, when the respective faculty...

Projects, Promises, and Bank Shots

There's a great pair of posts up over at Bardiac's dealing with frustration over repeated overpromising (and selective guru loyalty)...

September

Every fall semester is the shock of the new. The courses repeat; the classrooms don't change; but every September there's...

After Work

The Girl, her big pink teddy bear, and I are sitting on the couch in the family room. TG: Let's...

The Education of Crazy Larry

Crazy Larry, the struggling actor, is in a commercial run of a good play, which got him signed recently with...