Amid her concern about this law professor’s condition, UD had to laugh when she got to this detail about the guy who stabbed him.
Both men were sitting in the waiting room of an Illinois train station when Scaggs – meth-maker, burglar, racist – said something about this being his country and slit the other guy’s throat.
So who’s the attorney Scaggs gets? This guy!
Yeshiva University, notorious for having featured both Bernard Madoff and his buddy Ezra Merkin on its board of trustees, is all het up about a rather good short story a student there wrote about having sex.
You’ll recall that Yeshiva’s response to having put those two men in profoundly responsible positions at the university was to quietly erase their names one night from its trustees list and then say pretty much nothing about the matter. When pushed to the wall, Yeshiva described itself as a victim, overlooking the fact that its virtually non-existent conflict of interest policy allowed Merkin and Madoff to do plenty of business at the school.
Yeshiva has never come to any moral reckoning with its shameful behavior in the Madoff matter — behavior all the more scandalous in a religious school. But Yeshiva is totally down for moral hysteria against some undergrad who writes about sex. The student council has withdrawn the paper’s funding, and the university has clamped sex filters on its male students’ computers.
Only the men get the filters because women don’t read about sex.
Writers are falling over themselves ridiculing the two poets who’ve withdrawn from consideration for a pretty big-time poetry prize in England because the money behind the prize comes from a hedge fund.
There’s the guy in this post’s headline, for whom no contemporary Alexander Pope could be satirical enough to do justice to this absurdity.
There’s this guy in the Economist: “The poets should watch out, or they may soon have only their own words to eat.”
I mean, what’s wrong with these glorious engines of financial growth? I mean, sure, a day doesn’t go by without the SEC announcing a new case against a hedge fund… And of course
…[I]n the categories of custody and financial disclosure, …hedge fund adviser violations were about double that of other advisers. Hedge fund advisers that were examined by state regulators were cited for violations concerning their valuation of holdings, undisclosed conflicts of interest, cross-trading (not recording transactions that cancel each other out, often to hide a markup), preferential treatment, selling to nonaccredited investors, and selling unregistered securities without an appropriate exemption.
Google HEDGE FUND SCANDAL if you want to spend all day online.
To be sure, the particular hedge fund giving money to the poetry prize might be pure as the driven snow. That doesn’t really mean anything, does it? Hedge funds as such have tarnished themselves plenty in the last five or so years, and they shouldn’t be surprised that some people don’t want to be associated with them…
But no, it’s ridiculous. It’s like turning down the opportunity to have Donald Trump moderate your presidential debate. Where is the author of The Dunciad when you need him? After all Trump is a perfectly respectable businessman… a glorious engine of financial growth, really… What is it with Huntsman, Perry, Paul, and Romney? Silly buggers. They should watch out.
… in the Jerusalem Post.
Halachic terrorists harm three groups: They harm their victims, of course. They also do injury to the haredi community [from which they come], the vast majority of whom are law-abiding, God-fearing individuals with exemplary behavior. But they also harm the Jewish People and the Jewish state in general, projecting upon us an odious image of being intolerant, incorrigible and at war with one another.
Or as Efraim Halevy recently said, referring to out-of-control haredim: “Israel’s true existential danger comes from within.”
The main targets of these determined forces of reaction are women and girls – just as women and girls are the main targets of similar forces of reaction in places like Afghanistan. Women moving freely in the public world, thinking independently, pursuing an education – these provoke the most dangerous violence.
You can establish entire departments, entire schools, at a university. All you need is money and faculty and students. MIT has an Alchemy Department (or, rather, a door that says DEPARTMENT OF ALCHEMY).
About five years ago, chiropractors with money and political influence began establishing a chiropractic school at Florida State University. About ten years ago, a similar thing happened in Canada, at York University.
Science and medical professors at both schools brandished lawsuits and petitions and media appearances to make that idea go away, and they prevailed.
The latest effort of chiropractors to establish mainstream legitimacy through affiliation with a university is taking place in Australia. Some of the country’s highest-profile, most-respected scientists are furious at the University of Central Queensland. They are calling chiropractice anti-science nonsense, quackery, and superstition.
So you’ve hired a guy who “had very poor writing skills” and doesn’t come to work much at all, spending most of his time in bars and at Disneyland. His time cards are fraudulent. He’s supposedly a fancy engineer working on your top secret satellite stuff under contract with the government, but you’re aware that he’s seldom there.
This paragon tells you he has a doctorate from Oxford University. He’s actually only a high school graduate; and, you know, he certainly doesn’t act like a person with a doctorate from Oxford. But you believe him because, as Ms Keeton up there says, you lacked the way sophisticated methods of verifying university degrees that we all, in a more enlightened time, now enjoy…
What? The guy worked for you from 2003 to 2008. The telephone (Pick it up. Call Oxford University. Or email Oxford University.) had already been invented. The method of verifying educational claims way back then was the same as it is now. Call the registrar. Or contact the British equivalent of these people. It’s not satellite science.
Ah, but Aerospace Corporation
was culpable [it just paid 2.5 million to settle Justice Department fraud allegations] because it knew that Hunter was not working the hours he submitted on his time card… The company profited from its employment of Hunter because it billed the government a higher hourly rate than it paid him…
Why look a gift horse in the mouth?
Last July, UD noted the presence, on Harvard’s summer school faculty, of an economist with scandalously bigoted views. Dangerously bigoted views.
[Subramanian Swamy] received significant criticism for an op-ed he wrote last summer in the Indian newspaper Daily News and Analysis, in which he called for the destruction of mosques, the disenfrachisement of non-Hindus in India who do not acknowledge Hindu ancestry, and a ban on conversion from Hinduism.
Harvard’s faculty has now voted to cancel Swamy’s summer economics courses.
You always want to tread carefully when speech is at issue; and after all these were views irrelevant to Swamy’s teaching. Yet universities need to protect their reputations; they need to watch out for their intellectual integrity. Truly hateful, truly illiberal speech expressed by people who enjoy the prestige and legitimacy of a university affiliation is particularly damaging to universities. Universities are above all places devoted to reasoned discourse; and while we can argue about what ‘reasoned discourse’ might include, it certainly doesn’t include advocating the destruction of mosques.
You can’t do better than a close read of this article, by an Indiana University student. Foreign observers from, say, former Communist countries will recognize the article’s rhetoric immediately.
Title: SHUT UP AND SHOW UP
The student is enraged because many of his fellow students do not share his passion for the basketball team. They are failing to put on their team jerseys and join the fervent throng. They are failing to understand what Indiana University means. Their absence at the games demoralizes their fellow students. If they continue to opt out of these mass rallies, they should be punished.
I’ve noticed an attitude change in IU students over the last five years or so. No longer are they dedicated fans by the masses, that will plan their schedule around the games. Fans that will always wear their IU gear with their head held high and be confident in their university.
Comrade Brezhnev has noticed a deterioration in the dedication of the masses to the cause.
I do want note, there is a solid core of passionate students but there are far too few of them. It looks like no more than a few hundred.
The radical core remain intact, to be sure! But there has been a serious falling away.
There has been an attitude change and I don’t like it. In a group of about 50 students polled, only about seven classified themselves as a diehard IU fan that will watch the team no matter their talent level. The worst part about this informal poll was that about ten claimed they rarely watch IU sports, yet they are a sports marketing major.
Those who reap the benefits of the revolution should make their fair contribution to it!
Too many times I’ve said at my fraternity house that I’m getting ready to work the game and they ask what game and who they are playing. Seriously? I cover every game and how could they not know when their university’s top sport plays? Maybe these students won’t buy in until Indiana wins consistently and against good teams. I think it should go the other way around.
The revolution has no need of fair-weather friends!
[Students] they don’t like the fact that their section is not the prime seating surrounding the basket. Instead of being grateful for the largest section in the country, nearly 7,600 seats, they believe that they are above alumni and donors. How irrational. There’s no way Indiana can take away seats from longtime donors and alumni that donate thousands each year to the university.
Our leaders have sacrificed for the party; they deserve a little special treatment.
If students aren’t dedicated and in attendance for the non-conference games, they don’t deserve to stand in the student section for the big games.
… [If] the students don’t show, cut the size of their section… [IU] is bringing in too many students out of state that just don’t get what Indiana basketball is all about. They don’t get the history, tradition or culture. They don’t understand you should show up early and heckle the opponents during warm-up.
Little as I wish to do this, I have decided that punishment is in order. Insufficiently committed comrades will stand for the big games. The so-called intellectuals on the admissions committee will be instructed to admit only those who understand our indigenous revolutionary traditions.
… just to see how they stay that way.
How does Northern Kentucky stay Northern Kentucky?
Well, it’s gonna move to Division 1 ’cause that’s where it’s at!
It’ll cost 3.5 million.
Of that $3.5 million, NKU estimated that $1.78 million would be from the general fund, which consists of tuition and state-funds.
[A spokesperson] said the funds would be raised over five years, beginning this year. The general fund is made up of tuition dollars and state funding.
He said the money will not be replaced, but is being shifted to Athletics. Eaton said the funds are earmarked for students but are now going to be earmarked for student athletes.
The university would take $646,000 from other university budgets, such as housing, dining services or already-existing scholarships, to be used for athletics.
New athletic department revenues are expected to reach $819,000 and would be brought in by tickets, sponsorships and donations.
I guarAHNtee you ticket sales are gonna be hot! Hell, we’re gonna make up all that money we took from the school and the students in seconds onaccounta how rich we’re gonna be once we’re Div 1! HOOOOWHEEEEEEEEEEE
… for making a hash of a simple question – name some books that have changed your life – but UD thinks the answer his rival for the Mexican presidency gave is also noteworthy. Ernesto Cordero singled out Animal Farm and Alice in Wonderland.
Point one, it’s sweet to see a politician in macho Mexico list a children’s book. Point two, how appropriate both works — surrealistic dystopias — are for a life in Mexican politics.
The MCI is the Indian qualifying exam for doctors.
Kyrgyzstan hosts Indian med school students rejected from schools back home.
A letter writer in the Washington Post takes issue with a Ruth Marcus column about Israel’s haredim.
No woman in Israel is “forced to board public buses from the back and stay there,” as Ruth Marcus stated. There are several bus lines, servicing overwhelmingly Haredi communities, where there is a voluntary separation of the sexes — the wish of female passengers no less than of males. If a woman chooses to flout that convention, she is protected by law.
Flout. SOS likes that flout. Synonyms for flout, we’re told, include
It’s interesting that this writer considers acting in accordance with your country’s laws (which forbid gender segregation in public places) to be an expression of contempt.
Nor is the flouter at all protected by the law. No one will intervene when the men on the bus spit at her and the women call her a whore. The haredim on the bus don’t do laws; they do conventions which, if disobeyed, are being flouted and will get punished.
Just as Marcus says, Israel is becoming a land of cults, not laws. It’s pretty remarkable that there are people in this country willing to justify this trend.
When [Ohio State University] gave its new coach a contract worth roughly $25 million, the university’s president called it “a mark of our dignity and nobility.” That was as much Marie Antoinette as George Orwell. In this year of scandal, we’re saying: Let them watch football!
COLLEGE FOOTBALL EMBODIES THE WORST OF AMERICA
