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Remains to be Seen? A Response to Marketplace
As regular readers know, I listen to Marketplace podcasts faithfully. But this story nearly made me drive off the road...
BDSM and the American University
With three sadistic university coaches fired in the last six weeks, and with outrage at their having been fired the...
Advantages and Drawbacks of Attending a (Mostly) Women's College (Part the Last)
Over the past several weeks, I have discussed the impact of attending a traditionally female college in the early 1970s...
Keeping Up With Academic Librarians
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion Friday about the academic library and the cloud. I learned a...
George Clooney Meets Max Weber
Up in the Air illustrates the ideas -- in surprising ways -- of some of the most prominent sociologists and philosophers of industrial life, writes Susan Herbst.
Ask the Administrator: How to Talk to a Dean?
A Canadian correspondent writes: My husband and I have to go talk to the dean at our local college regarding...
Math Geek Mom: Another Women's College
I have read with interest the recent columns by Susan O’Daugherty about her experience at a women’s college in the...