Archive for February, 2008
Knitting in Meetings
I just read a post about attending faculty meetings over at Tenured Radical. I was glad to see her confirm that it’s okay to knit during meetings, ["knitting is actually a form of listening in my book, although keep the clicking down if you can"] That’s certainly how I made it through seemingly [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Political Funny
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the election right now. Thanks to my buddy Jeff in the Mathematics Department for sending this.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cancer Vaccine Conference at Rutgers
Well, my proposal for the conference “Cancer Vaccines for Girls?” at Rutgers University was accepted — now I just need to figure out how to get it done before May 16!
Yesterday’s New York Times had an interesting article on “Vaccinating Boys for Girls Sake.” I liked it because it made fun of [...]
Book Club: Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
Last week, we discussed Janet Malcolm’s book Two Lives, a biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. As a women’s historian I was looking forward to reading this book even though like most I find Stein’s writing style tedious and dull. However, I was really disappointed as were other members of the book [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Medius Interruptus: the only “change” is the channel
I’m really annoyed about the major networks’ decision to interrupt Hilary Clinton’s campaign speech in Ohio after only a few minutes to cover Obama’s Wisconsin victory speech during a stop in Texas. See coverage and video from Wolf Blitzer at Huffpo here.
Supposedly the issue was she didn’t congratulate Obama right off the bat. [...]
Fearing our Students Redux
Our director of University relations forwarded me a commentary by Gary Pavela from this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled “Fearing our Students Won’t Help Them.” This is a really excellent article from a disability studies perspective, as it cautions us to focus on actual student conduct not stereotypes. Like Kathleen Jones did at AHA, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Girls Rule
Just received this from one of my “biker chix” friends. Ride on!
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Getting ‘Girled’
July 6, 2007 on 12:50 pm | In Racing | This will be one of the only posts you’ll ever see in ‘She Rides’ from a guy.
‘Getting girled’ is the latest in bike racing jargon from the man-pack. Admittedly, I know little of [...]
Gentlemen, pardon our stupidity. . .
This was the subject line from one of my history department colleagues during a heated discussion about the ways in which Obama’s campaign of “hope” resembled that of FDR in 1936. Our resident blow-hard in the Communication Department insisted that the economy got worse between 1933 and 1936. I dug out evidence from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Campaign Theme Songs
Political discussions on our faculty listserv have become quite nasty, with the Hilary bashers clobbering anyone who dare challenge them. So, after reading on Wonkette that the founder of the 70s’ rock band Boston, Tom Scholz (who supports Obama), wants the Huckabeast to stop using their song “More than a Feeling” without permission, and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Oh no, not again
Here’s news of another campus shooting at Northern Illinois University yesterday. One of the comments sums up my thoughts exactly: “Why do the responses to such shootings never include increasing funding for mental health services to students?”
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