Oklahoma State University women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed when the single-engine plane they were riding in during a recruiting trip crashed near a wildlife management area in central Arkansas.
Oklahoma State University women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed when the single-engine plane they were riding in during a recruiting trip crashed near a wildlife management area in central Arkansas.
… from the heart of one of the world’s most reactionary cultures.
Women are being ostracized and humiliated by a variety of means. I could mention intimate ritual laws that denigrate women (but prefer only to hint at them). Astonishingly, women put up with them, ignore the humiliation, and with indefatigable self-persuasion − and with tolerance and patience stemming from generations of suppression − wipe their mouths and give thanks for the drops of rain that moisten them.
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You remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous statement about some burning issue in the Senate: “Everything that has to be said has been said, but not everyone has said it.” So everybody’s saying it about Penn State. Everyone.
UD thought it might be timely for her to reprint, as it were, something she wrote back in 2006 for Inside Higher Education: THE FACULTY BENCH.
Well, that’s Italy I guess.
… lead the headlines at Brown University, where two inexplicable things are happening. Keller remains on the faculty, and a masturbation “spree” is afoot. Ahand?
Keller, as readers of this blog know, is one of the three official biggest baddest boys of academic medicine (along with Joseph Biederman and Charles Nemeroff). All men have undergone titanic struggles with conflict of interest regs, and in the process drawn plenty of attention to their schools, as well as to the quality of their research.
The latest effort to draw attention to the Keller scandal involves the non-profit Healthy Skepticism, which has written a letter to Brown asking its assistance in getting an apparently ghostwritten Paxil article by Keller retracted. Brown has been sitting on its hands.
Which you can’t say about the people involved in what reporter Lucy Feldman describes as “College Hill’s inexplicable months-long masturbation spree.”
… but here’s yet another fraudster who spent stolen funds on a university sports team.
Through the Mattera Foundation, the accused paid for Florida Atlantic University’s weekly football fan breakfast with legendary coach Howard Schnellenberger in 2010, although the athletic department refused his support this past year when word of his legal troubles first emerged.
Efforts to reach FAU athletic director Craig Angelos for comment Thursday were unsuccessful…
Nevin Shapiro’s the big name here, of course; but the business of parking your Ponzi profits in university athletic programs is broadly popular.
… she’s having.
A professor at Long Island University was wounded in an “accidental shooting” on campus early this morning. No students were present.
The faculty member was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
What the hey?
First theory: Suicide attempt.
… down the street from UD‘s house.
New to teaching, I was proudly gazing at a sign on my office door proclaiming “Assistant Professor Grossman,” when the department secretary knocked.
“Would you like seasons tickets for the faculty cheering section in the football stadium?” she asked.
“No thank you,” I said, effectively ending my social life at the University of Nebraska. I didn’t realize it wasn’t a question but an imperative. Faculty members were expected to wear sweaters with the school colors and hold up colored pieces of cardboard to spell out, in giant letters, eternal verities like: “Hold That Line!”
Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
Should be a lot of fun to read. I’m doing that right now.
Live blogging my responses… Okay, we both love DeLillo. Our lists of books of his that we don’t love (we love most but not all of him) are pretty similar, but I disagree about The Names. It took me a number of rereadings to warm up to this oddball, philosophically ambitious, beautifully written novel, but it’s now gotten to the point where I feel ardor for it. I understand why Amis – why anyone – would have trouble with The Names – it can feel portentous, pretentious, as it digs down for spiritual meanings – but it’s actually a grounded and compassionate inquiry into the human soul.
The phrase “midnight in Dostoevsky,” we’re told, comes from a poem, and is probably intended to conjure some epiphany of willed despair.
Well, I tell you what the poem is, and offer some analysis of it and its connection to the story, here.
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[It] is his general receptivity to the rhythms and atmospheres of the future that we should value… [T]he gods have equipped DeLillo with the antennae of a visionary.
Yes.
A finance professor at Bocconi University has been suspended while authorities launch a fraud investigation into his hedge fund.
A Rutgers professor for whom intellectual achievement always came easily copes with a terrible stroke.
The head of the University of Texas Republicans tweets.
“Y’all as tempting as it may be, don’t shoot Obama.”