Resolution by UNC Faculty EC on Proposal to Constrain Centers and Institutes
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Resolution 2017-9. On the Proposal to Bar UNC Centers and Institutes from Engaging in Legal Actions The Faculty Executive Committee resolves: We respectfully urge members of the UNC Board of Governors to vote “no” on the proposed change to Section 400.7 of the UNC Policy Manual entitled “Involvement of Centers and…
Image of the Day: Results of Ignoring Basic Science
Other Nations with Highest Numbers of Students in US Colleges and Universities
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following statistics are taken from an article written by Abby Jackson for Business Insider in late November 2016: Total International Students in US in 2015-2016: 1,043,839, or 5.2% of all higher education students. 10. Mexico Population: 122 million Students in US: 16,733 9.. Japan Population: 127 million…
Resignation Letter from President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Dear Mr. President: Reproach and censure in the strongest possible terms are necessary following your support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville. The false equivalences you push cannot stand. The Administrations refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further…
Videos Worth Viewing and Sharing
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are videos of the candlelight vigil at the University of Virginia campus: https://youtu.be/cITuxcGlAr8 https://youtu.be/mm7B4U6745k https://youtu.be/oYjshqCuyTw https://youtu.be/KDuqCpOCqEM https://youtu.be/extOrNa42h4 This next video is from Vice and documents the White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville; It highlights the travesty of Trump’s false equivalency: https://youtu.be/P54sP0Nlngg. This final video is from Disney Studios. Made 1947,…
UVA Responds to Mayhem at White Nationalists’ Rally
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are four statements issued by the University of Virginia and President Theresa A. Sullivan over the last 36 hours. They are presented from the most recent to the least recent, and they are followed by news updates. President Sullivan Condemns Demonstration Violence As events have unfolded on…
Wordplay III: Politics Edition
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In this series, I have highlighted headlines that are cleverly expressed, making use of puns, irony, figurative language, or unexpected word choices to grab a reader’s attention. Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has so unabashedly flouted all sorts of political conventions that headline writers have felt freer to write headlines…
Quotation of the Day
BY MARTIN KICH In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, President Trump seems very clearly to be telling rural voters in the “Rust Belt” that his solution to the economic decline of their communities is to abandon them for the closest metro areas. Based on this quotation from the interview, I am guessing…
Exhibit A in My Impending Trial
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for the Intercept, Glen Greenwald reports: The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the…