Grading frenzy
The rest of my family (well, the humans anyway) are out of the house for the next 48 hours, and I’m grading until the work’s done. Grades are due Tuesday morning (I found out after I had shifted around the last online chat), so at least I have Tuesday morning to breathe a tiny bit.
Silliness at William Patterson University
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education press release on the case of Jihad Daniel at William Patterson University illustrates the problems of overly broad language on harassment that in essence defines any speech as harassment if it offends someone, for virtually any reason. Apparently, the employee and grad student responded to an e-mail announcement […]
Creative commons and graduate students
Chris Karr has an interesting idea to protect students from the rare faculty who steal ideas:identify their work explicitly with a Creative Commons license. This is technically to make the claims to authorship clear rather than change the legal status of work—a Creative Commons license is more a way to release some part of of […]
Bérubé on theory
Why I read Michael Bérubé’s blog: items like today’s, which discusses ostraninie (a Russian term which I’ve heard translated as “technique of the naive observer”) as a starting point for the last n decades of literary criticism and broader theory. One pithy bit: When theory works—when it leads you to see things about texts and […]
Work horcruxes
By Sherman Dorn on July 19, 2005
This is going to be a fragmented week. Yesterday, I served part of my jury duty in the federal courthouse and finished an article review for a journal before I went to voir dire for a civil suit. I wasn’t chosen, so I’ll see if I need to head downtown again next Monday for another […]
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