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Scenes from Thanksgiving Break
A few vignettes from the holiday weekend: *** The Boy at lunch: "I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with...
UD Gives Thanks to Thomas Doherty
Professor Thomas Doherty of Brandeis University will be in UD's Thanksgiving prayers today. Most Americans can't stand professors -- they've...
Happy Thanksgiving
A couple of weeks ago I called my old friend Frenchy and asked if he’d come for Thanksgiving. It wasn’t...
Access and Limits
Aspazia, characteristically, has a thought-provoking post about applied ethics. This time it's about some partial scholarships that her husband's college...
Advisory Boards
My cc is taking a new look at guidelines for "advisory boards" for various "occupational" degree programs. (A quick definition...
Presidents on Allowances
The Chronicle has had a series over the last week or so about the salaries of college Presidents. I won't...
Depillation
The spate of fake hate crimes at America's universities makes going after these people and punishing them crucial. Truly malicious...
The Quick and The Small
I’ve always liked Adam Gopnik’s writing, but his recent piece in support of abridged books has an odd thesis imbedded...