The Fora: A Higher Education Community

Woke up to a new referee request (the third this month). Weird how they always cluster like that.

Today, just some T1ing. Might start reading for the new referee report.

Good morning!

Got to genius with pangram so far.  Yesterday we had team QB.  I think I was missing eely, eyelet.

No luck on LB.  Congrats on your solutions!

Safe travels, Langue_doc, and ciao_yall! Have a great time!

Happy solving!

I would not allow the student to take the final exam. If it's posted everywhere, has been discussed at length in class, and they still missed it, then that's on them. And I know my Dept Chair would back me up.

Students who choose not to pay attention to deadlines, or who can't tell time/read calendars, should not be in college. I vote no on any makeup exam.

Good morning!

QBw1LH for tithe, my last word. Genius with pangram today, and quite a way to go.

LB: I also had wicker-relegation.

Langue_doc and ciao_yall, enjoy your travels!

Happy puzzling!

Morning!

QBwG last words title, tittle. LB nudge for wicker-relegation.

I'll also be on vacation for a few weeks - not sure how much internet access or phone time I'll have. But will try to check in regularly.

Happy solving!

Student missed the final exam because stu mixed up the days. I understand that things happen, but I've been talking about this exam for the past two weeks, posting about it online and oh, it's in the syllabus. I guess it would have helped if stu came to class more often...

Edit: Should I take pity on stu and allow a makeup with penalty? Damn, this kind of thing always gets me in trouble though...

The Venn Diagram of "students who most need to attend the review session" and "students who ask if they'll lose points if they don't attend the review session" is almost a circle.

Seriously, I've got 9 out of 24 students who've emailed me to say they won't be attending today's final exam review, and all of them are in the bottom half of the class in terms of grades. I mean, it doesn't count as a grade per se, but don't you think it'll be helpful to raise your final exam grade? Or is 2pm on a Friday cutting into your social life?

Quote from: Hibush on April 25, 2024, 06:08:30 PMStudents at my school were really gung ho on divesting from fossil fuels a few years ago. They thought that news of our school selling all its oils stocks would galvanize the CEO and BoD of Shell, Exxon et alia to change their business model and go to renewables in order to win back our holdings. That seems like a fanciful expectation. More so when you realize that our holdings represented several minutes of trading in those securities on the NYSE, so even if they got dumped in a single market order, it wouldn't even blip the share price. There would be nothing for the CEO to notice.

This needs a term, like "recursive slacktivism"; where "activism" means doing nothing other than yelling for someone else to do something which in turn will have no discernible effect.

Kind of like Riddhi Patel in Bakersfield.

Or like Kony2012.
From the above article:

QuoteSince the video's release, Invisible Children has come under criticism for oversimplification of events in the region and has been accused of engaging in "slacktivism", in which a person donates or takes actions that have little to no effect beyond making said person feel as if they contributed to a positive cause.