… wannabe.

Support structure withdrawn.

Ohio State’s ex-coach Jim Tressel
Has made of himself the Lord’s vessel.
He’s preached and he’s preached
And he’s preached and he’s preached.
But he overlooked 21 (Thessal.)

… is an expert in performance management. Under her authority for the last three years, MSU has become arguably the most mismanaged, most under-performing campus in the country.

A humongous sports fan, Bradbury successfully pushed for JQH Arena, MSU’s new money-hemorrhage machine. Reed Olsen, an MSU economics professor, tried to explain to Bradley and MSU’s president and everybody that the arena would be a disaster, but they were too dumb to listen. They all beat up on old Reed. Nobody at a university – least of all its leadership – wants to read damn fool reports with lots of statistics and shit in them.

Okay but now they’re like losing tons of money I mean like what the hell happened? and now it’s time to sell beer there and chisel more fees out of undergraduates and rent out the place to well jackshit anybody I guess and I dunno fuck with the numbers…

The task force recommends the accounting of the arena be combined with Hammons Student Center and Plaster Sports Complex to create a “true” financial picture of athletic venues.

Dunn said the three facilities currently share resources such as personnel.

Former State Auditor Susan Montee last year specifically warned against mixing the finances of JQH Arena with other university sports facilities.

“In that way, it would not be transparent and nobody would be able to tell,” she said then.

Regular readers know that UD has a category – Online Makeover – singling out American universities whose campus life is so sordid, so sodden, so stupid, that it is time for them to shut down their physical plants and reopen as exclusively online institutions.

West Virginia University, whose new coach (the state’s highest paid employee) appears to be a seriously obnoxious drunk, is a perennial Party School winner (it’s number four on the latest list), and is – just to top things off – likely to decide in the next few weeks to sell booze at its football games.

In short, WVA is a Purveyor of Fine Wines and Spirits, and should be allowed to spin off its course-offering component and ply its trade unimpeded.

Walking in the Stars

One still, clear night in Galilee
The stars dripped silver in a midnight sea.
He and his platoon went wading out
Far from shore so that they could shout
Loud among the stars and be heard by God.
He ends before he ends the story:
A sentence cut in half is his last word.
His exultant voice clamours to be heard:
‘I, walking in the stars, in great glory…’

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Ian McDonald

General Dempsey, 59, earned a master’s degree from Duke University – in English…

Already back in ’09, Jon Stewart was seriously discouraged about the nation’s anti-MBA-grad defense capability. The MBA brigade, equipped by Harvard, Columbia, Wharton, Stanford, and Northwestern with the latest weaponry, launches wave after wave of attacks, year after year, against American suckers like you and me who haven’t learned high-level market-craft. There’s really nothing we can do.

It’s gotten so bad lately, with all the MBA insider traders, that some of their degree-granting institutions have begun to issue public statements.

“These are serious allegations, which if proved true are of great concern to me as a teacher, as a dean, and as someone who is dedicated to restoring people’s trust in business leaders,” said [the dean of the Harvard business school] “We try to do all we can at HBS to convey the importance of integrity and accountability to our students and will keep striving to do more.”

Yadda yadda. He’s talking about yet another insider trader his school trained.

[D]uring his first year at Harvard, [Samir] Barai would have taken the required course ”Decision Making and Ethical Values,” that had been put into HBS’ curriculum eight years earlier. The module offered students an ethical framework to use as a guide for making decisions and using sound judgment… The lessons from that class, including several case studies on ethics, must have eluded him.

One indignant B-school professor, reflecting on all the criminal cases, complains,”People assume that you’re somehow flawed if you go to business school.”

One thing Harvard’s new ethics-oriented dean might do is ask himself what his own professors are modeling for their students. Harvard’s business school, after all, spawned the notorious Monitor Group.

… has been murdered by a gunman who then killed himself. It happened in the parking garage of Florida Hospital. Apparently the gunman was a patient in the hospital.

An Australian commissioner instructs citizens to stop talking about burqas.

Victoria’s anti-discrimination watchdog wants the burqa debate shelved because it puts Muslims in danger.

Equal opportunity and human rights commissioner Helen Szoke said yesterday that constantly airing the issue threatened the safety of Muslim women on public transport and in other public places.

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“Shelve all debates,” said Mr UD when
I told him about Commissioner Szoke.

“Those deliberative democracy types
are really annoying.”

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Yet another generous insider trader causes a bit of embarrassment for an institution he endowed.

His lawyer says that systematically robbing the system by taking advantage of a position of trust is “in no way indicative of [the] overall character” of Donald Johnson. But heck. I dunno.

… an American University professor, looked at first like a random act of violence. Now an acquaintance of hers (we don’t yet know how close their friendship was) has been named in the crime. Police aren’t sure where he is, however. Probably Mexico.

… who murdered three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama and tried to kill three more, faces the death penalty in her upcoming trial.

Among mitigating factors [in death penalty trials] are the defendant’s lack of a significant criminal history…

Bishop will also go on trial in Massachusetts for the 1986 murder of her brother.

Why not? Why not blanket the nation with ads attracting unwary people to financial and educational doom? It’s a free country; and, after all, our non-profit education sector is not without sin … Why pick on the for-profit? If that industry – like the slave trade – wants to pay its people by the body, why not?

… is now up at Inside Higher Ed.

Just ten Canadian professors each year win the 3M National Teaching Award. Excerpts from a profile of one of them.

Ryerson University history professor Arne Kislenko … doesn’t use PowerPoint or any other technology. While he makes ample time for students outside the classroom, when lecturing he sees no problem with asserting his expertise over his students. In class, apart from presenting the occasional map, he rarely departs from straightforward lecturing. “Too many bells and whistles takes away from the orator, and I think the professor is the real conduit of knowledge,” he says.

… Kislenko’s lectures are full of emotion—injected with humour, irony, outrage and sadness, depending on the historical period he is discussing…