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The Academy as a Community Greenhouse
The "ivory tower" analogy is outdated, and comparing colleges to businesses is shortsighted. Carolinda Douglass offers an alternative metaphor for higher education.
Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment: Part Two
UD has already proposed that Harvard relieve itself of the guilty burden of a forty billion dollar endowment by giving...
The Art of Breaking
Crazy Larry is in his first Equity play, and we were talking about the similarities between acting and teaching. I...
Slack or Squeeze?
As those last few students trickle in to last-minute registration, those of us who throw ourselves into the scrum at...
If Not Religion, What?
Science can't talk with faith, but philosophy can. Alan Contreras argues for a shift in who does the debating in our continuing national argument.
Southern Illinois University an Official Laughingstock
UD hesitates to declare any university a laughingstock -- there are always plenty of smart, hard-working, good people at any...
Coach Langston Cast Down to the Bowels of Hell
Your university's football season is almost here! To get you in the mood, UD will be running some noteworthy gridiron...
Trying to Remember 18
In an aside last week, I mentioned that my first semester at Snooty Liberal Arts College was an academic belly-flop...