Hiram Hover’s gone
Hiram Hover’s pseudonymous blog is now gone, not only on hiatus but now unavailable from the domain and only available in snippets from archive.org. D***.
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus" and student rights off-campus
Andy Carvin correctly points out the complexities in the Morse v. Frederick opinions, released today in the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case. The five-judge majority opinion ruled that student behavior occuring during an off-campus event was nonetheless subject to student-conduct rules if it was school-sanctioned, during school hours, and supervised by teachers and staff. The majority opinion […]
Ward Churchill and the politicization of research misconduct
The procedural conflict in l’affair Churchill is between the need for any institution to investigate serious charges of research misconduct and the need for colleges and universities to be buffered from political pressures that interfere with academic freedom. In most cases, outside political pressures raise issues that are easily dismissed (at least by serious faculty) […]
Travel-time Saturday
Profgrrrrl is off to Thailand for a month. My son and mother are coming back from Arizona, where they spent a week on and around the Colorado River. (My mother just called me from the Houston airport on layover.) I have been grading student work today so I have a little less on my plate […]
Tax cuts and adequate school funding
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has signed into law the statutory part of the proposed Florida property-tax reform and cut. The law that Crist signed is an immediate roll-back in non-school local property taxes. The next issue is a proposed constitutional amendment on the January 29 presidential primary ballot that would create a different structure for […]