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#21
The State of Higher Ed / Re: Protests and police on cam...
Last post by Langue_doc - May 01, 2024, 10:36:05 AMQuotePolice Clear Building at Columbia and Arrest Dozens of Protesters
Officers in riot gear removed demonstrators who had seized Hamilton Hall, a building with a history of student takeovers. Scores of other arrests were made on campuses across the country.
QuoteNYPD says police arrested nearly 300 people at Columbia and City College protests
#22
General Discussion / Re: Anyone go to their high sc...
Last post by aside - May 01, 2024, 10:27:52 AMNo. I'm pretty sure no one missed me. Besides, I had a fish tank to clean or underwear to iron.
#23
General Discussion / Re: NYT Spelling Bee
Last post by cathwen - May 01, 2024, 10:14:17 AMGood afternoon!
Time got away from me yesterday, so just before going to bed I quickly consulted SBB to get my final four words: afoot, fontina, iota, taxon. Today I'm at genius with both pangrams.
LB: No solution yesterday! I kept looking for something with reflexive with no luck. Today I found a 2fer fairly quickly.
Ciao_yall, I hope that your computer does not need an expensive repair (or replacement)!
Happy puzzling!
Time got away from me yesterday, so just before going to bed I quickly consulted SBB to get my final four words: afoot, fontina, iota, taxon. Today I'm at genius with both pangrams.
LB: No solution yesterday! I kept looking for something with reflexive with no luck. Today I found a 2fer fairly quickly.
Ciao_yall, I hope that your computer does not need an expensive repair (or replacement)!
Happy puzzling!
#24
Research & Scholarship / May Research Thread
Last post by Parasaurolophus - May 01, 2024, 10:04:57 AMYet another. Without end.
This month:
Today: Just T1.
This month:
- Keep working on streamlining T1; it would be nice to get close to done, because it's sucking up too much time.
- Referee report
- Comments for acquaintance
- Work on the new book
- Email other co-translator about starting T4
Today: Just T1.
#25
Teaching / Re: Teaching About The Middle ...
Last post by Parasaurolophus - May 01, 2024, 10:00:57 AMSome or all of Jerome Slater's Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020?
#26
General Discussion / Re: NYT Spelling Bee
Last post by ab_grp - May 01, 2024, 09:26:28 AMGood morning!
Past genius with pangrams so far. Yesterday we had team QB. I think I needed help with a couple words I might usually get, like affiant, afoot, fiat.
No luck on LB yet again!
I hope it's just the screen and is not too much money and hassle, ciao_yall!
Langue_doc, we keep looking for him/her, but the tree is a mesquite, and the foliage colors of green and yellow make it hard to spot some of these folks. The sound was very close in the tree, but no luck. We didn't see any birds nearby today, but it was a bit windy.
Happy solving!
Past genius with pangrams so far. Yesterday we had team QB. I think I needed help with a couple words I might usually get, like affiant, afoot, fiat.
No luck on LB yet again!
I hope it's just the screen and is not too much money and hassle, ciao_yall!
Langue_doc, we keep looking for him/her, but the tree is a mesquite, and the foliage colors of green and yellow make it hard to spot some of these folks. The sound was very close in the tree, but no luck. We didn't see any birds nearby today, but it was a bit windy.
Happy solving!
#27
Teaching / Re: Teaching About The Middle ...
Last post by secundem_artem - May 01, 2024, 08:47:39 AMCertainly not my field, but I found this to be an interesting read from the perspectives of both sides.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/01/magazine/israel-founding-palestinian-conflict.html?searchResultPosition=2
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/01/magazine/israel-founding-palestinian-conflict.html?searchResultPosition=2
#28
Teaching / Re: Topic: Bang Your Head on Y...
Last post by evil_physics_witchcraft - May 01, 2024, 08:20:17 AMQuote from: the_geneticist on April 26, 2024, 02:47:30 PMQuote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on April 26, 2024, 06:20:25 AMStudent 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...
I'd let them take it in my office. My chair would NOT have my back if I said they earned a 0 on the final exam.
We're 'encouraged' to help students pass. I should have looked at the student's grade before even considering this. Stu would not have passed the course with a 100% on the final.
#29
General Discussion / Re: Look! A bird!
Last post by AmLitHist - May 01, 2024, 06:36:08 AMUpdate: FOUR eggs in the robin's nest!
#30
Teaching / Teaching About The Middle East
Last post by spork - May 01, 2024, 05:50:58 AMMy Middle East course is coming up in its regular rotation. Given Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7 and the aftermath, I'll be revising the syllabus. I'm curating a list of potential additions/substitutions. Let me know if you have any recommendations. My current list includes:
I also plan to again use Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, 2020.
Students at my university are mostly ill-informed and apolitical. Few can locate Israel on a map. So I'm not interested in dense, badly written academic literature.
I am not interested in debating the war itself in this thread. If you want to opine about it, start a General Discussion thread.
- Ben Hubbard and Maria Abi-Habib, "Behind Hamas's Bloody Gambit to Create a 'Permanent' State of War," The New York Times, 9 November 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-gaza-war.html.
- Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman, "'Buying Quiet': Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas," The New York Times, 10 December 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html.
- David Brooks, "The Missed Chance for Peace," The New York Times, 12 October 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opinion/israel-palestinians-gaza-peace.html.
- Bret Stephens, "Sheryl Sandberg Screams Back at the Silence," The New York Times, 30 April 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion/screams-before-silence-sheryl-sandberg.html.
- Barnett R. Rubin, "False Messiahs," Boston Review, 4 January 2024, https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/false-messiahs/.
I also plan to again use Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, 2020.
Students at my university are mostly ill-informed and apolitical. Few can locate Israel on a map. So I'm not interested in dense, badly written academic literature.
I am not interested in debating the war itself in this thread. If you want to opine about it, start a General Discussion thread.