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• Reader poll: Who is going to the Rose Bowl?

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 136
  The best team in the Pac-10 conference won another big football game today. They racked up 55 points against USC , after putting 51 on the board against the Eugene Undertakers.I doubt theyll make it to the Rose Bowl, though. That honor is going to these guys . Dont you think? Who will play Ohio State in ...
  13 hours ago

• Back in action

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 144
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  1 day ago

• finders keepers? the clash of intellectual property and a venerable poetic tradition

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 423
  Ausonius declaiming someone else’s words a long time ago Fortunately news moves slowly in the poetry world; this has grown rather old in the three days it took the Guardian to get back to me saying it was rather old… but you guys don’t care, do you? I mean, poetry books get reviewed a year after publication. ...
  2 days ago

• When you read, you begin with $5, $10, $20

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 136
  The fundraising frenzy that surrounds public schools these days sometimes goes way too far .
  3 days ago

• Bart and Marge on Grad School

  
  Twenty-Cent Paradigms — Authority: 116
  A grad school friend calls this to my attention: One part of the transition from being a grad student to a professor that I found somewhat disorienting was the change from being treated with such disrespect - though our undergrad students were too polite to make comments like Barts and Marges, we knew what they ...
  3 days ago

• Help Marysville School

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 144
  Can you imagine being a kid in a public elementary school and watching the school burn down in the middle of a school day ? Fortunately, life and limb was spared. The school community appears to have been well prepared for everyones safe evacuation.But is anyone prepared for what happens next? The students are ...
  3 days ago

• "Minoring in religious studies and thinking you know about religion is like watching porn, reading..."

  
  Heuresis — Authority: 132
  “Minoring in religious studies and thinking you know about religion is like watching porn, reading gynecology textbooks, and thinking you know something about pussy.” - Mary Karr, quoted in Boris Kachka, “ Why Author Mary Karr Struggled Writing Her Third Memoir ‘Lit’ ,” New York Magazine (Nov. 8, ...
  3 days ago

• Aint no mountain high enough

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 144
  No money shortage, no labor strife is enough to stop the public relations juggernaut in our many local government agencies. Heres a 9-by-27 full-color glossy mailer that arrived at our place yesterday: I wish theyd stop selling me the schools, and just operate them.
  3 days ago

• GIRL TALK: Quick Takes on Difficult Dialogues and Wimpy Kids

  
  Girl with Pen — Authority: 121
  Difficult Dialgoues Get the latest on girls and girls studies this week at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia from November 12-15.  The conference theme is “Difficult Dialogues,” and we expect our largest event in recent history.  On tap: more than 1,600 feminist ...
  4 days ago

• The Benedict Arnold Chair at the University of Massachusetts

  
  Bloodthirsty Liberal — Authority: 149
  Amherst… Amherst… didn’t I just write about Amherst three weeks ago?This quaint leafy town in Western Massachusetts is known for its diverse mix of college students and retirees, a former farming community characterized by suburban small talk just as much as cultural institutions. But it is never one to shy from ...
  5 days ago

• November?

  
  midlife mama — Authority: 106
  If its November it must be job season. Heres what I think about that right now: Blog U.: Mothering at Mid-Career: November - Mama PhD - Inside Higher Ed Posted using ShareThis
  5 days ago

• More evidence that Duke is full of wankers

  
  Debris — Authority: 122
  Meanwhile, at the Northwestern of the Southeast, the controversy du jour concerns a study of sex toys . As part of the study, female students are invited to attend a “one-hour party” at which they will “view sex toys and engage in sexually explicit conversation with other female Duke students.” The director ...
  6 days ago

• Scenes from the Post-Racial Society in Evanston

  
  Debris — Authority: 122
  Two Northwestern University thought it would be a real hoot to don blackface for Halloween . Reaction on the campus and beyond ranged from justified indignation and shock at such a crass display of racist imagery, to predictable whining about “political correctness”. Personally, I find the most outrageous tidbit ...
  6 days ago

• Sweet Saturday

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 144
  Look on the bright side , Duck fans. Now you can quit whining about the BCS and concentrate on booking your plane tickets to the Poulan Weed Eater Fiesta Bowl.
  1 week ago

• Mindanaoan, do you want to go to school — ABROAD?

  
  Mindanaoan | Living in Mindanao | Blog Sa Usa Ka Taga Mindanao — Authority: 127
  One of the things I used to dream about when I was younger was to attend school abroad. I took my IELTS exam (I passed) and did research. I remember I already had a shortlist of the schools that I wanted to attend. However, times were tough, money was scarce. And the LIFE kicked in. [...]
  1 week ago

• Why …

  
  Laodicea — Authority: 420
  … for a class teaching non-English-speakers (that is, not native speakers) to read English philosophy texts, would you choose a translation from German? Ugh. (Dear Notburga, I am not ugghing at the Teutsch, but at the fact of giving people a text that is obviously a translation, and not natural English. ) ...
  1 week ago

• Red flag goes up at OHSU

  
  Jack Bog's Blog — Authority: 144
  The new chief financial officer at OHSU has quit after just two weeks on the job . Apparently it has something to do with family issues, but given all the turnover in management on Pill Hill lately, the situation bears scrutiny. As Muddy Waters used to say, "thats the stuff you gotta watch." The most recent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wishing Everyone a Happy, Safe and Feminist Halloween!

  
  Girl with Pen — Authority: 121
  It’s always a treat to get quoted in a mainstream newspaper article that takes a critical look at U.S. norms and values. Fellow GWP editor, Shira Tarrant , and I were recently interviewed about trends in female Halloween costumes: Halloween costumes sexy instead of scary » Ventura County Star ...
  2 weeks ago

• Silly girl.

  
  the subtle knot — Authority: 106
  I was meant to be grading, this morning, but I went on a quest through my bookshelves to find something else entirely . I did find that, but I also found several old notebooks of mine, one of which I wrote when I was in a peculiar situation in life – as being thoroughly, utterly, whole-heartedly consumed with an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sisyphus and Higher Education

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Those of us laboring for academic reform often feel like Sisyphus, rolling a rock up the hill only to have it come crashing down again. The gods of academe seem to have condemned higher education to inevitable decay. That thought came to me as I read about the demise of an institute (at Hamilton College) that did ...
  2 weeks ago

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