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Transparency and Reciprocity
Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...
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...
You Know the Type
"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't...
Attending a Conference, Looking for an Exit
Terry Caesar recalls presentations in search of an audience, and other awkward moments.
How Not to Conduct a Presidential Search
An alert reader sent me a link to these articles in the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, detailing the goings-on...
My Other Stuff
One of the added benefits (for me, anyway) of revealing my real name is being able to share other published...
All for Nought?
The decade is winding down. Scott McLemee wonders what it was all about...
National Service
Every election year, we start to get proposals for various national service programs as ways to pay for college. The...