To distract herself from the onslaught of grading, Maria Shine Stewart contemplates commas, dashes and lesser-known marks.
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November 5, 2010
If you plotted our town on one of those vintage maps that show important products, we’d be an ear of corn, a fat green soybean, and a little black mortarboard. Even within the perimeter of the campus, we have farms for teaching and research. On one of these, a dairy farm of 200 cows, we are living out our destiny as a land-grant institution.
October 29, 2010
At Franklin & Marshall, student and professor investigate the weird world of ghost hunters.
October 12, 2010
The student worker in our department office had messed up the committee report so that Page One was tucked between Pages Three and Five, and the last page was missing. A colleague of mine called this problem to her attention. “My bad!” she said cheerfully as she walked away.A pause hung in the air. “Whatever happened to ‘I’m sorry’?” muttered the committee head, and we proceeded without the faulty report.
September 10, 2010
As a writer and professor, Tom Moriarty "works" while he surfs online, reads books and just thinks -- though his wife is skeptical.
September 3, 2010
Maria Shine Stewart presents a paean to the adviser who, wordlessly, helps her navigate the world of professional writing.
September 2, 2010
Scholar reflects on a career trying to teach and enforce "the Queen's English." Bonus: a double limerick.
August 27, 2010
David Galef describes U of All People's love/hate relationship with Ennyville, the place it calls home.
August 17, 2010
One ritual of the start of the academic year is the release of Beloit College's annual "mindset list," which aims to help professors understand what their new freshmen experienced (and didn't) growing up. While some items on the list are, of course, related to technology, many reflect the cultural and political world views of today's 18-year-olds. The list was created by Tom McBride, the Keefer Professor of the Humanities at Beloit, and Ron Nief, the former public affairs director.
August 12, 2010
One student has inadvertently invented a new name for the phenomenon: "Confusionism."
In fact, the third-year student had intended to refer to the system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by the Chinese philosopher Confucius.
Proving that they are just as fallible as all those to have gone before them, students' comical cock-ups have been revealed in entries to Times Higher Education's "exam howlers" competition 2010.