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Scathing Online Schoolmarm

This post's subtitle rewrites something Hamlet said: How all occasions do inform against me... Prose discloses. However much you think...

The Charity Shakedown

A long-suffering correspondent writes: My SLAC employer conducts an annual United Way fundraising drive. Earlier this fall, a letter was...

Kids

What are the odds? There was actually a staggeringly brilliant piece in the New York Times yesterday! (The piece is...

On the Town

I’m in Chicago, since Crazy Larry finally got me a comp ticket to the play he’s in. It’s a good...

Policy and Trust

A former cc administrator -- who is not me -- did a piece in the Chronicle about deans and chairs...

Ask the Administrator: Bouncer Duty

A regular correspondent writes: Lots of people are showing up in class these days who have been cut off from...

Do Drop Me A Line

My friend Chip wants to be my life coach. He said those words. When I asked what he meant, he...

Honor Among Thieves

One of UD's readers sends her an article from the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which represents an instructive fable...