You’d think a professor who specializes in it would have at least short-term memory. Does the name Bernard Madoff ring any bells? Ezra Merkin?

“We gave him everything, we thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands,” Wiesel said.

… and off.

Ole Miss: A refuge for bigots of all kinds.

This comment alone suggests that the New Jersey Institute of Technology was probably right to fire one of Wharton’s finest.

He is Reference 19 in “Evaluation of Transformative Hermeneutic Heuristics etc. etc.” – an astonishing contribution to the field.

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UD thanks Eric.

… who oversee one of America’s most larcenous, most corrupt universities, the University of Louisville. A local paper wants to know why no one seems to catch all the thieving UL administrators until long after they’ve taken millions… The sports program is WAYYYYY-scuzzy….

Like other criminogenic schools – Wharton, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Yeshiva – the University of Louisville is a comprehensive model of degeneracy, featuring indifferent trustees, comatose students, and… professors? Are there professors there? Oh – right…

… lose their president.

And then there’s Yeshiva.

Students should never hesitate to ask for help, and UNC has a group of highly trained tutors to whom they can turn.

Former UNC tutor Jennifer Wiley has been indicted for encouraging former North Carolina football player Greg Little to sign with an athlete agent… [S]he also provided Little with $150 before the student-athlete entered into an agency contract, and provided Michael Johnson with a roundtrip airline ticket valued at approximately $579.50 for the benefit of Little to travel between North Carolina and Florida.

Wiley’s no longer part of the UNC academic team (under indictment, etc.), but I’m sure UNC retains other tutors – especially tutors to athletes – willing to help you find an agent or whatever. Don’t be afraid: just ask!

…arians.

… and it’s not that readers and friends haven’t been sending me, over the last few days, all sorts of fascinating stuff. It’s that UD has been flinging herself from one event to the next today (interviewing Fulbright candidates, taking a student out to lunch, being interviewed about MOOCs by eCampus News) and is now tired. She will rest up and do some posting later this evening.

… has these sports teams, see, and some of them are ever so slightly at odds with that ethos… UD has already told you about their hiring as assistant basketball coach Kevin Broadus, a major player in the disgusting SUNY Binghamton scandal… AND that on his official Georgetown page the school has allowed him to expunge all reference to that history.

Add to that Georgetown’s own Mike Rice, as in the current allegations that the school’s women’s basketball coach has a propensity to bully his players.

All utterly typical big-time university sports shit, except that Georgetown thinks it’s better than that.

It’s not sose you’d notice. Yet. Metro’s as busy as ever. On the train, an anxious man in an expensive suit bit his fingernails, and two schoolgirls fiddled with a set of drumsticks.

The man who stands at the top of the Foggy Bottom station warbling about Jesus warbled.

The gloomy interns at the GW Hospital Starbucks kept their heads down, as always.

On the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, UD‘s friend The Dean repeatedly sang out her name as she, the same hazelnut latte in hand as ever, waited to cross the street. She’d seen him last night at a reception for our dean’s list students and he’d been all deanly, but here he was done up in bright yellow and straddling a bicycle.

“Twice in one day I see you!” he said.

“Well,” said UD, “stretching the concept day…” She looked him, a fellow ‘thesdan, over. “You do this every day? You bike in from Bethesda?”

“Yep.”

“Jeez. You make me feel like a lazy good for nothing. How do you avoid traffic?”

“You can take the Crescent Trail all the way in.”

“Jeez.”

“Somebody asked me: Do you like cycling? I said No. This is just the way I happen to get to work.”

… (see background here), we are going to need armories and we are going to need shooting ranges, by way of preparing campus police for crowd control.

Crowd control, in the current context of big-time university sports (start at 1:56), increasingly means keeping people inside the stadium or arena until the game is over.

One way to do this would be to use your tanks and guns to intimidate people into staying. Occasionally, you might have to fire (non-lethal) materials.

Ideally, these armories/shooting ranges would themselves be arenas and stadiums, so that university security personnel could get a realistic sense of crowd, uh, containment.

One central location UD proposes for a national armory of this sort would be Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center. Like many excitedly built university stadiums (CSU was excited because one of its teams did well one year, and the trustees decided that before you knew it CSU would be king of the world, so they needed a new stadium), this one is an empty, money hemorrhaging mess.

After getting the latest year-end financial report, which again showed a $1 million loss, [CSU] trustees today said the university has to examine all options, even those as improbable as demolishing it.

But whoa! How about renting it out to universities all over the country (world?) for practice? With Berkeley having recently rejected an eight-ton armored truck as “not the best choice for a university setting,” we can anticipate industry offering a line of university-appropriate heavy weaponry – tanks in soft shades, with quotations from Virginia Woolf on them… Some of these could be gathered at Wolstein for use by any university interested in learning how to keep students in their seats.

CSU’s big competition is Florida Atlantic University. FAU is not only located in Florida rather than Ohio, but has a much bigger empty stadium (30,000 vs. 13,000 seats). CSU will have to act fast to secure market share.

America’s broken government, rendered brilliantly by Joshua Keating.

…rocky first day.

… here, on the burqa in England. UD predicts that England will, in a few years, enact legislation – similar to France’s and to a growing number of other European countries – against the burqa.