Hoover and Rumsfeld
According to a New York Times story, the recent Hoover Institute appointment of Donald Rumsfeld has brought a petition: We, the undersigned members of the Stanford community, strongly object to the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a “distinguished visiting fellow” at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the ethical values […]
Icons and beacons
Eric Rauchway has the best short commentary on two recent University of California idiocies: In the Chemerinsky case, UC threatened Chemerinsky’s academic freedom; in the Summers case, UC threatened mine–and that of everyone else who teaches here. Nice bon mot, but I wish Rauchway had explained it more clearly: UCI Chancellor Michael Drake was violating Chemerinsky’s […]
Andrew Meyer, disruptions, and free speech
The news has been flying on the tasering of Andrew Meyer at a University of Florida speech of Senator John Kerry. The best serious commentary is from former Florida Alligator editor Ron Sachs: Stephen Colbert has his own take on events:
“Beyond the Pale”
If you truly love or hate something, you spoof it. Thus the great mockumentaries This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind. Now we have a mockumentary on academe: Beyond the Pale. It’ll be shown next month at the Austin Film Festival. It will also be shown free next Thursday (September 27) 7 pm at […]
Vi8gra for ur tests
In response to the growing arguments over the Miller-McKeon Title II proposal (i.e., encouragement of performance pay), Eduwonk (Andy Rotherham) writes … until education becomes a field that is comfortable with the idea of performance, it’s a field that is in some trouble. This may say something about my spam filter, but that phrase brought up images […]