Inefficient but necessary journal work today
I’ve mostly prepped the next article to appear at EPAA—I am waiting to hear back on a few things—and am now on the one for early August. There are the usual tedious issues, and it’s taking a little more time than I expected (or maybe my brain is being inefficient today and needing frequent breaks […]
Defending Ward Churchill??
A group of academics have now started signing a petition defending Ward Churchill, calling themselves Teachers for a Democratic Society. Essentially, the petition makes the argument both that the process leading to Churchill’s dismissal has been flawed (and presumably will be flawed even though Churchill is in the middle of an appeal process with the […]
Frederick Mosteller, 1916-2006
By Sherman Dorn on July 24, 2006
ASU educational researcher and statistician Gene Glass just distributed a notice by Gale Mosteller of her father’s death yesterday. Fred Mosteller was truly one of the giants in 20th century statistics, right along with John Tukey (Mosteller’s frequent collaborator). My friend and former fellow history grad student Tim Hacsi was at Harvard several years ago […]
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