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Semiotics 101

Robert Weir offers a guide for first-year students on how their excuses will be understood by their professors.
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Class Dismissed

Pennsylvania attorney general shutters "diploma mill" and launches litigation offensive against the owner.
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Bitches, Good Soldiers and Golden Boys

Ruth Haberle writes that junior faculty members all get placed in one of three categories, and she's happy about where she ended up.
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Should Our Students Study Chinese?

Reports bemoan the lack of language proficiency, but businesses and students may be telling us something different, John V. Lombardi argues.
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Necessary Evils

A new book by Marouf Hasian analyzes the arguments for and against military tribunals. Scott McLemee listens in.
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Saying No

Hugo Schwyzer write about the worst part of a new semester: turning away students from classes that are full.
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The Žižek Effect

Scott McLemee talks with Astra Taylor about her documentary on the theoretical wildman of the Balkans.
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Teaching a Disaster

Anthea Butler explores why and how she will add material on Katrina to her courses on black religion and on fundamentalism.