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Ask My Readers: One-Year Gigs and Undergraduate Research
A returning correspondent writes: I have been skimming the latest crop of advertisements for physicsfaculty, and every so often I...
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The Academy as a Community Greenhouse
The "ivory tower" analogy is outdated, and comparing colleges to businesses is shortsighted. Carolinda Douglass offers an alternative metaphor for higher education.
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Help Harvard Spend Its Endowment: Part Two
UD has already proposed that Harvard relieve itself of the guilty burden of a forty billion dollar endowment by giving...
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The Art of Breaking
Crazy Larry is in his first Equity play, and we were talking about the similarities between acting and teaching. I...
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Slack or Squeeze?
As those last few students trickle in to last-minute registration, those of us who throw ourselves into the scrum at...
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If Not Religion, What?
Science can't talk with faith, but philosophy can. Alan Contreras argues for a shift in who does the debating in our continuing national argument.
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Southern Illinois University an Official Laughingstock
UD hesitates to declare any university a laughingstock -- there are always plenty of smart, hard-working, good people at any...
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Coach Langston Cast Down to the Bowels of Hell
Your university's football season is almost here! To get you in the mood, UD will be running some noteworthy gridiron...