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I assumed they meant (rightly, in my opinion) it would be problematic for a political appointee to do this merely because someone complains. For example, University of Florida loses non-profit status because random Dem congressperson complains to WH.

Meanwhile in the corporate world: https://www.ft.com/content/94d3fba0-cd65-4bcd-b4ab-1adad97173fe?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9

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Quote from: Hibush on May 08, 2024, 02:53:08 PMThe spirituality office sends out a long list of religious holidays in case we want to be prepared. I think most faculty just see that the list is long and trying to schedule around them is futile.

Your institution has a "spirituality office?"  The faculty's attitude to their no doubt well-meaning list of religious holidays is probably pretty typical of the response to a lot of what these sorts of offices put out. 

The full name would reinforce your impression. The name used to have the word "religion" in it. Perhaps in the distant past that was the full name. There is a staff of about three dozen chaplains who have rather conventional chaplain responsibilities. They report to the Dean of Students.

Quote from: secundem_artem on May 09, 2024, 08:09:46 AMAdd a little class to the occasion.  Play the a video of Gaudeamus Igitur to class the place up and let them learn something about their forebears in the classroom in the distant past.

Wow! That is classy.

Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels.  It was a mix of interesting, disturbing, and sad.  The reports out of the Trump Fraud trial match what was in the book. 

The few of my friends who have remained in town during the summer have formed an informal book club. We've generated a master list of things that each of us have added "novels near and dear to us" and we're working through them at our own pace.
I'm a third of the way through If We Were Villains. It's ok -- the genre is a little too precious for me, but I can see why my friends like it. The Eyre Affair is next.

Thank you, lightning. Unfortunately, he did not provide samples, perhaps, due to their confidentiality. However, since I found the one by Amy Wax (linked in my previous message), I thought of checking if anyone else has come across others.

Thanks again!

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Quote from: Wahoo Redux on May 09, 2024, 07:13:22 AMIHE: UC Berkeley Investigates Pro-Palestinian Dinner Protest Fracas

QuoteThe Council on American-Islamic Relations shared on X a video showing Fisk coming up behind Afaneh, grabbing the phone in her hand from which she was reading the speech, putting her arm around Afaneh's shoulder and saying, "Leave, this is not your house, it is my house." Chemerinksy also says "Please leave our house." Fisk then tries to pull Afaneh's microphone out of her hands. Afaneh says UC is funding weapons manufacturers and Fisk, relinquishing the mic, says "I have nothing to do with what the UC does."

So you can invade my house but I'm the one being dragged up to see what transgressions I have committed?

In a state with stand your ground laws, the response could well have involved a load of buckshot with the invader on the receiving end.  But in Berkley??????  It seems not.

Truly we are living in cloud cuckoo land.

The charges of "Islamophobia" are simply hysterical.

The professor should have simply called the police, but I guess anger took over.

More T1 today; I'd like to manage a large chunk. Maybe I'll start on something else, too. We'll see.

The problem with this coordination is that college semesters aren't always as long as primary/secondary school semesters; my college coordinated this, but it meant spring break (which followed Easter) was sometimes just a couple of week before the end of the semester, which wasn't optimal for everyone without kids.  Spring semester is long anyway, since people are still worn out from fall semester, and not having a break for that long was really tiring.

Then again, since I taught at a spring-break destination, a good number of my students wouldn't return after spring break anyway (why attend class when you can make lots of money working), so maybe they were maximizing attendance?