/tombstone engraving
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 6 August 2016 06:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/us/as-homeless-find-refuge-in-forests-anger-is-palpable-in-nearby-towns.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Some residents have begun taking photographs of hitchhikers or videotaping confrontations with homeless people camping in the woods and posting them online, including on a private Facebook page created recently called Peak to Peak Forest Watch. Some say the campers have cursed at them for driving past without picking them up, or yelled at them while they were cycling or hiking. They say they no longer feel comfortable in some parts of the woods.
― j., Monday, 22 August 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/trump-the-university-of-chicago-and-the-collapse-of-public-language
The trouble in San Francisco, I realized, wasn’t that the warring tribes followed different doctrines. It was that they followed the same doctrine, abstractly stated, but had less and less of a way to gather and work from the abstract into the specific. Everyone was operating as a good San Francisco liberal, struggling against the establishment, outside the system, for the people. Ironically, this meant there was less and less system left, no common terms by which the whole community could move ahead. Public language, as I put it in the piece, was coming unmoored from public process. I wondered what the future would bring if the rhetoric of our best ideals kept moving in this direction—if people of a single political identity couldn’t agree on the real sense of the words that, they were certain, gave voice to their values.
― j., Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
That Heller-piece eloquently describes the chaos that arises when the members of the fourth estate hasn't read enough Habermas.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
I do agree with quite a lot of it, btw.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/campuses-cautiously-train-freshmen-against-subtle-insults.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
hey you guys
― j., Tuesday, 6 September 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
"Train" seems like a loaded term here.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
may be triggering for students who were raised in labs
― j., Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
would an 18-year-old really say "you are a credit to your race"
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah that one
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
someone explain why this isn't the dumbest thing ever
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/cal-state-university-la-offers-segregated-housing-/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
i mean, "theme houses" (or "theme hallways" or whatever) are one thing. we had a "womanist" house at my alma mater that comprised all af-am women. but overtly racially segregated housing--that's not at the very least yoked to some kind of collective cultural activity-- seems very, very dumb. but maybe the media hasn't represented this fairly??
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
it's apparently by demand, classed as an academic community, and has the usual microaggression/safe space rationale. perhaps you recall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/06/black-grad-student-on-hunger-strike-in-mo-after-swastika-drawn-with-human-feces/
from around the time of the mizzou protests
― j., Wednesday, 7 September 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Greek groups have done that (selective group housing) for decades, basically centuries now. Strikes me as a welcome table turn.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Thursday, 8 September 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/dorm-for-black-students-is-segregation/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
(re. similar situ at u-conn)
also, as far as i know, in the post-civil-rights era, greek orgs are not officially (or practically, in most cases) whites-only
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
at UW there are a few af-am frats (and possibly sororities); most of the other frats seem only mildly integrated
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
Yeah no Greeks aren't integrated for shit, anywhere in the country.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Thursday, 8 September 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Casually referring to fraternity and sorority members as "Greeks" is confusing as hell.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
just saw a movie where some mild mirth is gotten out of a jew being "president of the greeks"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 9 September 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
Aimless, this is a thread about American college campus issues. Maybe it wasn't at first, but at present, that's the context.
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Friday, 9 September 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/09/help-food-insecure-employees/
this is obviously written from the perspective of some kind of nonprofit org mindset but still
― j., Monday, 12 September 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
is
- don't pay a starvation wage
in the list
― flopson, Monday, 12 September 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
that's a negative
― j., Monday, 12 September 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
but there are lots of techniques for being more sensitive to their concerns!
https://medium.com/@ethnicstudies198/an-open-letter-to-the-uc-berkeley-administration-regarding-academic-freedom-1bf60c9a040e#.b4zy83fk8
The decision to suspend Ethnic Studies 198: Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis is a violation of our academic freedom. This is an alarming development to have transpire on the same campus that not only hosted the Free Speech Movement, but which also routinely claims and utilizes the same Movement’s legacy to market itself as a world-class institution, a bastion of tolerance and diversity, and the site of intellectual inquiry — inquiry that is sometimes discomforting, but always enriching. Your decision constitutes nothing less than an act of discrimination against students who wanted to debate and discuss this contentious issue in a spirit of genuine sincerity, mutual respect, and open-minded curiosity.
― j., Friday, 16 September 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
i thought it sounded like shit from the course description but what i really wanted to know is since when do colleges offer classes for credits taught by undergrads? that's bullshit.
― Mordy, Friday, 16 September 2016 02:43 (seven years ago) link
Oh, this is the first time I'm hearing about this DeCal business. That is bizarre, you're right.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Friday, 16 September 2016 02:58 (seven years ago) link
i was involved in the program and had friends who were. they're only for a few credits and don't count towards core or departmental requirements, so they're really extra fluff around the edges and have a loooong history at cal going back to the 60s. also giving undergrads an opportunity to organize and teach is a good thing imho.
― rip my mensches (s.clover), Monday, 26 September 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/09/do-i-have-to-call-my-co-workers-boyfriend-her-master.html
i dunno the ground seems pretty shaky here
― j., Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Shakey Co mollifier
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― Treeship, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
“will your master be at the end-of-summer barbecue?”
― goole, Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
man this one has it all: trump, vandalism, protests, adminstrative support of free speech in abstract, safe spaces, mention of a "bias incident team"
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2016/10/protesters-gather-to-oppose-mural
― goole, Monday, 3 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
do they have one of those little golf carts like the people who refill the dry erase markers and reboot projectors
― j., Monday, 3 October 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
sadly article does not mention 'collge republicans'
― j., Monday, 3 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Paul Blart: Bias Incident Cop
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
has this li'l detail made it into media? from a campus email ~to which i am privy~
Next to the panel for a Latino-based multicultural fraternity was the painting “Build the Wall” by another student group, the Minnesota College Republicans.
phrased with strange passivity as well
― goole, Monday, 3 October 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
he condemned the vandalization of the painting and said the campus supports all types of free speech
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
a painting
fuckin john singer sargeant over here
― j., Monday, 3 October 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/arts/pen-warns-that-college-students-often-see-free-speech-as-a-cudgel.html?mwrsm=Facebook
― j., Monday, 17 October 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-idea-38496
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
more 'free speech incidents' around here
david horowitz group puts up posters specifically naming students & faculty active in BDS as hamas supporters
http://alphanewsmn.com/poster-campaign-university-minnesota-claims-student-group-front-hamas/
(note -- this website is right wing but it does reproduce the posters which other sites aren't doing)
muslim student association sign defaced with "isis"
http://www.twincities.com/2016/11/03/umn-isis-washington-avenue-bridge-vandalism-muslim-student-association-panel/
both in the last 48 hours
― goole, Thursday, 3 November 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
the U's administration has condemned both
― goole, Thursday, 3 November 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
apparently horowitz pulled this stunt on a bunch of campuses this week. what a creep.
― goole, Thursday, 3 November 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
hamas' puppeteering skills must be next-level
― j., Thursday, 3 November 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/sports/harvard-mens-soccer-season-canceled.html
― j., Friday, 4 November 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
Sure this is the right thread for this, j?
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 November 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
i'm sure you'll tell me either way
― j., Friday, 4 November 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link