starts my day off right with an email link to an article posing the question:
A missing student is found dead, in portable toilet, in apparent overdose. How can colleges prevent such tragedies?
Wow. I hardly know where to begin with this, but it seems to me that the usual college reaction would be to ban portable toilets.
They also have a bit on the Dartmouth Trustee Elections which Joe Malchow has been following, in which yet another petition slate candidate has broken through the serried ranks of the institutional representatives:
Dartmouth College announced Thursday that Stephen Smith, a law professor at the University of Virginia, had won an alumni election for a seat on the college’s board. Smith used the petition process to enter the race, becoming the fourth person in recent years to do so, and to defeat candidates placed on the ballot by an official alumni nominating committee. Like the previous insurgent winners, Smith has been critical of college policies. His platform calls for cutting back “bureaucracy†at the college, insisting on small classes, and more support for the Greek system and athletics.
The present President’s tenure has seen the number of administrative positions increase enormously, whilst the ratio of faculty to students lags behind that of similar institutions that represent themselves as universities, rather than colleges. Smith is not calling to divert the money those salaries represent into more facilities. Instead, he’s committed to diverting it to more teachers. And yet, the Chronicle sees fit to editorialize by placing quotes around “bureaucracy”: “Dumbasses.”
UPDATE: Scientists fail to lure whales to ocean
Which is why they’re on talk shows, I suppose.
Leash shit-eating drug-sniffing attack canines in the blue bubbly.
What good are drug-smoking canines going to do, thor?
Regardless of whether they eat shit or regular old dog food.
That scientists headline is just perfect.
I’m reading too much into it, but it’s like “Totalitarian’s Lament” in how eloquently it speaks by what it doesn’t say and confuses, dare I say challenges the mind to reach out to seek an understanding of it by what it does say.
Those whales swam upstream to get away from the damn singing dolphins.
All they need to do is put a couple of sushi chefs in a kayak upstream from the whales. You won’t see them for dust.
The feds need to get busy and fund these colleges that are attempting to “prevent such tragedies”. If these academic miracle workers can figure out how to keep American kids from committing suicide through substance abuse, then surely it can’t be but a hop, skip and a jump to keeping youth of undetermined ethnic and religious backgrounds but whom all live in the middle east from committing suicide by blowing themselves up in a crowded building.
Give the whales a shot of that eeeeevil Navy medium frequency sonar, that’ll run ‘em right off…
And plainly, we have to declare our college campuses ‘shit-free zones’…
Seems like an excellent Dragon/Roc lure.
Hope you’ve got a big net….
A friend of my son’s in high school died last week of a drug overdose. My daughter lost two friends in high school due to drugs and alcohol.
And there were several more deaths from car crashes. They went to a large high school, so I’m not sure how the numbers work statistically.
When I was in high school and college, I knew no one who died. The drinking age was 18 and you could drink and party on campus too.
What gives here?
I think the whale issue is relevant to Global Warming.
Here is how..
The best and brightest minds get together and pool all of the available acquired knowledge on whale behavior and they give it their best shot….. zilch.
Same thing is going to happen with global warming scientists. They have a consensus. A plan.
RWS–
I don’t know. I don’t really mean to make light of it. All I know is, it sucks.