POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Poetry has been defined as the effort to express the inexpressible. In the context of the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, I think that much the same can be said for many disciplines, ranging from statistics to engineering. Consider the following numbers: Estimated volume of rainwater from Harvey that has…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH I have seen very little evidence that President Trump has any sense of humor about anything, least of all about himself, but one would think that even the most thin-skinned politician would have to appreciate the brilliance of this parody.
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…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Almost 21 million people attend some variation of a college or university in the United States. For some, the purpose is obvious – to improve their skills, increase their wages, and enhance their marketability in the workforce. But for many – especially those in the traditional 18-22 year cohort – the…
BY JOHN K. WILSON When ESPN decide to shift an announcer named Robert Lee away from a football game at Charlottesville, the far right declared it was a crisis of political correctness. On Fox News, Tucker Carlson announced: Craziest story of the week: #ESPN dropping an announcer named #RobertLee from a game. The president of…
BY HANK REICHMAN My title alludes to an identically titled 1904 pamphlet by Lenin, one of his more tedious, in which the one step forward was the Russian Social Democrats’ Second Congress held the year before and the two steps backward the emergence of the great factional split between Lenin’s Bolsheviks and the opposing Mensheviks. …
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH President and Mrs. Trump Observe the Eclipse
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…
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…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Brandon Busteed, the executive director for education and workforce development at Gallup, wrote a stimulating and thought provoking op ed earlier this month. The article’s title captured Busteed’s summary opinion: It’s Time for Elite Universities to Lead in Non-Elite Ways. Mr. Busteed argued that America’s colleges and universities have traditionally followed…