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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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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 this [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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” [...] 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 [...] 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 to this same document, construction will commence on November 15, 2009, and the project will be complete on December 21, 2012. (Note to the few folks who entered the PH renovation pool: “beginning construction” for the purposes of the pool means actual construction, not the likely ribbon cutting ceremony that will be in mid-November 2009. And we might just have to change this pool into the more unpredictable “ending of construction” on Pray-Harrold pool). As but an alternate representative to the committee (and one whose attendance at these meetings has been intermittent to say the least), my assessment of the process has been kind of mixed. At one point, I described it here as a train-wreck. I don’t think that’s true anymore, but there is something oddly unsatisfying and yet inevitable about this project. Let me give you a couple of examples: |
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