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Quote from: Hegemony on April 22, 2024, 11:15:44 PM

Quote from: ab_grp on March 17, 2024, 10:06:48 AMI am interested to see what the next doctor (David Tennant) does with the role. 

Some people hold that one of the David Tennant episodes, "Blink," is the best single episode of any TV show. I'd agree that it is certainly the best single science fiction episode of any TV show. Of course maybe I'm overselling it. But see what you think.

Quote from: Sun_Worshiper on April 22, 2024, 04:12:32 PMI watched the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, including the final episode, over the last couple of weeks. It was a lot of fun and ended on the right note. It also gave Seinfeld the send off that show deserved. As a long-time fan of both shows, I was actually a little moved.

LD is a comedy legend, Curb is one of the GOAT shows, and the finale was pretty pretty pretty good.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on April 22, 2024, 08:58:32 AMInputting grades, then... just streamlining T1, and maybe making more headway on that referee report.

QuoteLakeland Community College in Ohio is struggling with steep enrollment losses, underutilized campus spaces and on "the precipice of fiscal watch," according to a recent performance audit by the state auditor. Fiscal watch status would require the college to submit a financial recovery plan.

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The audit notes that enrollment, which is currently at about 5,000 students, fell nearly 50 percent since its peak in 2012 but the college has not reduced staffing levels accordingly, held courses with few students enrolled and opened new facilities, including a 16,000-foot expansion on the main campus, leading to debt.

Quote from: spork on April 22, 2024, 10:42:04 AMDidn't hear anything about police arresting the Ivy League students who were protesting against the Tigray war in 2020-2022, which killed a half million. Or the students who have been protesting against the civil war in Sudan, which has killed ~ 20,000 and displaced ~ 8 million. Or the students who have been protesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has killed about a half million so far, and has involved the rape and torture of civilians, as well as the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian hinterlands.

Why are the students protesting against the war in Gaza so special?

QuoteColumbia's President May Face a Censure Resolution
The university senate is expected to vote as early as Wednesday on a resolution censuring Nemat Shafik, a reaction to her testimony before Congress and the arrests of student protesters.

QuoteUniversities Struggle as Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Grow
Dozens were arrested Monday at N.Y.U. and Yale, but officials there and at campuses across the country are running out of options to corral protests that are expected to last the rest of the school year.

Quote from: kaysixteen on April 22, 2024, 06:16:54 PMAll this is true.   Doesn't mean that Israel isn't a settler colonialist state, though.