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Modest Proposal #1 -- Ban the bulb
'Tis Spring, and an old(er) man's fancy turns to thoughts of ... possible policy changes for the coming academic year...
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Inventory vs. reality
It's April 4, about two weeks into what the calendarists recognize as Spring. The snow is gone everywhere but on...
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Earth Hour Rides Again
A friend of mine, at SUNY's School of Environmental Science and Forestry, forwarded me this email, which apparently went out...
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Earth Hour
Sometimes, it's what you don't plan that goes well. Earth Hour, an event which originated only last year on the...
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Beyond the beyond
Paycheck envy aside, I'm glad I'm not a university president. Long hours, too many constituencies bringing too many competing priorities...
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The first rule of Scrap Club
... is that you do talk about Scrap Club. According to a piece that I heard on public radio this...
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An announcement and an accounting
First the announcement: the RSS feed is fixed. Those of you who aren't into RSS don't care, but some of...
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Little boxes on the campus-side
More emails go by, some asking whether schools have disallowed first-year students from bringing cars, and what the results have...