At least for the moment, this one report did more than anything previously to change the conversation on increased college costs from faculty salaries and productivity to bloated executive salaries and to some extent administrative bloat. Unfortunately, the earlier report from the Young Invincibles on the steep declines in state support did not receive the…
Clancy, Tom. The Cardinal of the Kremlin. New York: Putnam, 1984. Tom Clancy’s novels have proved so popular that they have spawned a large number and range of imitators. Bridging the action-adventure and espionage genres, Clancy’s novels have come to define a new genre, the techno-thriller. Most of Clancy’s novels have featured C.I.A. analyst Jack…
Avallone, Michael. Shoot it Again, Sam. New York: Curtis, 1972. One of the most prolific novelists of the post-war era. Michael Avallone wrote novels, usually published as paperback originals, in almost every popular genre and under a veritable catalog of pseudonyms. He wrote so much that even he could not keep track of everything he…
Aarons, Edward Sidney. Assignment to Disaster. New York: Fawcett, 1955. This novel is the first of more than forty featuring San Durrell, a C.I.A. operative whose assignments take him to all corners of the world. The most conspicuous gimmick of the series is that every title begins with the word “Assignment.” Aarons was so prolific…
Actually, it turns out that the list depends at least somewhat on the audience whom Scott Jaschik is addressing. In an interview with E-Campus News [http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/ten-higher-ed-stories-020/], he listed the following ten stories: 1. College incompetence handling sexual assaults 2. Links between college sexual assaults and other issues 3. Sexual assaults and student athletes 4. Anonymous…
Last month, a small herd of bison was running along a highway in Yellowstone National Park and happened to run past a film crew from a local television station that was there to do another story. The footage of the bison soon went viral, fueling endless speculation about what the bison were running from. Initially,…
One of the major sources of education funding in Missouri is the revenues produced by the state lottery and from riverboat gambling, both of which have been down this year. The state provides 36.76% of the funding for K-12 education, and 16.6% of that funding comes from the lottery and gaming. I could not find…
In January, British porn producer Johnny Rockard released a film that was largely shot on the Frenchay Campus of the University of the West of England in Bristol. The film focuses on Rockard’s supposed search for a new porn star, a search that ends when he finds a “psychology major,” played by established porn actress…