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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 10, 2011 17 Comments
The New York Times reports on the inconsistency of how various government agencies count the races: The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins — a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent — as “Hispanic.” But the National...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 09, 2011 3 Comments
Via And So It Goes In Shreveport comes news of the death of “snaggletoothie” and a link to a loving memory by his father, My son Christopher David Monson aka snaggletoothie: “Chris was born on April 1, 1948. He passed away on January 28, 2011....

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 05, 2011 9 Comments
This article will save you money if you actually buy into the premises of a recent article in the Journal about college admissions that had me rolling my eyes. It is no secret that the children of certain families (and we all know who we...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 25, 2011 15 Comments
Peter Thiel has been making a splash lately by calling higher education “the next bubble.” In a fairly recent Wall Street Journal article, he went as far as to say “Liberals […] blame our education system, but liberals are the last ones to fix it,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2011 12 Comments
Criticism of Supreme Court Justices is nothing new.  We do it and they do it. But the latest tactic in going after two Supreme Court Justices, Scalia and Thomas, seems out of the ordinary.  Since the first of this year we have seen three charges...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2011 22 Comments
I posted yesterday about Eric Fuller, who blamed Sarah Palin and others for the Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner. Now Fuller has been arrested for making a death threat against a local tea party leader: The meeting room at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church on the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 12, 2011 6 Comments
There has been an article floating around the internet called “20 Ways to be Popular at an Expensive Liberal Arts School.” While I technically go to an expensive research university, not liberal arts school, I think it’s a pretty funny microcosm of the type of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2011 16 Comments
With each passing day, the evidence accumulates that Jared Loughner suffered from a mental illness completely disconnected from the political world, putting in context just how despicable the accusations were that a 10-month old electorcal map published on a Sarah Palin website contributed to the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 07, 2011 2 Comments
There was a recent article in the NY Daily News covering the plummeting approval ratings due to the (lack of) blizzard response earlier this week. Things aren’t looking good for Bloomie, “Bloomberg admitted City Hall was in the dark about the extent of the crisis....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2011 8 Comments
The State of Ithaca, NY, has been the subject of multiple posts here, reflecting on what it is like living in “10 Square Miles Surrounded By Reality.” One question I frequently hear is, “Is there a Tea Party in Ithaca?” The answer is, yes there is,...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 21, 2010 15 Comments
There was a great post on Reason yesterday about the failings of the American education system. Steve Chapman explained that “[there] is a widespread impulse to treat all kids as equally able and willing to learn. But the results often fall dismally short of the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 04, 2010 6 Comments
Yesterday I posted on the Manhattan Institute’s online magazine, Minding the Campus, which “is dedicated to the revival of intellectual pluralism and the best traditions of liberal education.” The post was in response to the outrage that ensued after an announcement that the African Studies...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on December 03, 2010 9 Comments
When I first came to Ithaca, I knew I’d be in a liberal college town. I was fine with that, after all, I was coming from the most liberal college city (New York, NY). Amidst all the “fair trade” (what was unfair about trade in...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 28, 2010 0 Comments
After the Four Loko craze a few weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before someone created an actually tasty, potent alcohol. According to the Daily Mail, alcohol-infused whipped cream is the latest sensation among college kids. “Whipahol Drink Toppings come in different...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 18, 2010 19 Comments
As a college student, my Facebook feed has been saturated with complaints about the recent discontinuation of “Four Loko,” an alcoholic drink which is sold in 23.5-ounce cans containing 12% alcohol by volume. The combination is now illegal following several reports of underage drinkers being...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 09, 2010 4 Comments
Politico is reporting on the gender gap that has emerged in the GOP. Nobody can doubt that ladies like Michele Bachmann have contributed to GOP success in 2010, but are any of them really suited to be Speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi was certainly...
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