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From the front page of today’s AANews: “Whitmore Lake company’s Mag-Lev train concept: Mass transit solution or idea that won’t get off the ground?” Here’s a quote: Picture a rail service in southeastern Michigan that runs along a track suspended above the freeway, traveling at speeds up to 200 mph. Imagine getting from Ann Arbor [...] From the AANews comes this: “Student parlays illness into publicity.” Barry Sheppard, a 21-year-old EMU student, said some meat he ate on campus made him sick, so he decided to become a vegetarian in the fall of 2006. He eventually parlayed it into becoming a semifinalist in PETA’s Cutest Vegetarian Alive contest. Sheppard is competing against [...] An alert EMUTalk.org reader and colleague sent me a link to this article in the online and free version of The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Online Professors Pose as Students to Encourage Real Learning.” Here’s a long quote from the beginning of the article: Jane Malan and Bill Reed are cousins in deception. They infiltrate [...] I saw this article on the front page of the soon to be defunct AANews from yesterday, an article that ran in the Washington Post: “Colleges Consider 3-Year Degrees to Save Undergrads Time, Money.” I don’t know who these colleges that are supposedly considering this are, but I would rate the chances of [...] I wonder if there is something in the Ypsilanti water and/or air that prompts some to attack others with unusual objects? Last June, there was attacks with a chicken. This summer opens with a kicking hot coal attack, according to this short article in the AANews. From the AANews: “EMU brings audience ‘Into the Woods.’” If a production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale mash-up musical “Into the Woods” isn’t enough, by itself, to bring you to Eastern Michigan University, would a robotic cow seal the deal? “We have a (student) robotics team here, and they have been working away, [...] Normally, I wouldn’t post something like this here. But it’s kind of the slow spring/summer season, and one of the “carnies” is a grad student in my program in the English department. Here’s the info: Ypsilanti’s Black Jake & the Carnies will headline the first-ever Detroit Wig Out Saturday, June 6 at the Magic [...] I’m shocked, shocked I say! From Chronicle of Higher Education, “Commercialization in College Sports May Have ‘Crossed the Line,’ Congressional Report Says.” Here’s the opening paragraphs: Big-time college sports programs derive 60 to 80 percent of their revenue from commercial sources, suggesting that intercollegiate athletics—at least at the elite levels—may have “crossed the line” from an [...] Well, no, not completely; I am not feeling that demoralized. Still, I think the opening paragraphs of this recent Inside Higher Ed article, “Next Budget Victim? Joy” kind of rings true: Step away from that copy machine, and don’t even think about serving lunch at that next faculty meeting. Oh, and that class you love [...] Just today, I received an email about the Pray-Harrold Advisory Committee about a meeting I can’t go to tomorrow and also about some “milestones and schedules” in the project. According to this document, the Pray-Harrold project is but one Legislative approval step away for construction, and that should be resolved very soon. According [...] |
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