Still grading…
Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about going back to the federal courthouse for jury duty today (or again this week, according to the phone system I just called), so I just have to finish the grading. Back home now, finish the job, post grades to Blackboard, and then get on to other tasks: union […]
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 […]
Bulwer-Lytton failure
By Sherman Dorn on July 28, 2005
Alerted by Margaret Soltan, I found the winners of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Alas, I did not earn any recognition for this scintillating entry: Leaning backwards over the balcony after three glasses of Merlot, the dean suddenly found himself dropping into the courtyard like a delinquent duck shot by a vigilante Supreme Court justice, […]
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