I’m about to dim the lights around the EMUTalk.org control complex in honor of winter break– not shutting down entirely, since I will not be traveling to an undisclosed location this season but will instead be hunkering down right here, apparently under a never-ending snowfall. If there are any loyal EMUTalk.org readers going to [...]
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An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me information about an article in the current Inside HigherEd about a forthcoming movie called Tenure, which will apparently star Luke Wilson. Here’s a quote describing the project: Blowtorch Entertainment will next month begin filming on “Tenure,” which is about a college professor coming up for tenure (Luke Wilson) [...] Also on annarbor.com, “Naked man steals children’s books from Ypsilanti District Library, police say.” The opening sentences: Ypsilanti police say a library patron took off his clothes and exposed himself to an employee today before fleeing with children’s books in hand. The man hasn’t been located by police. Sure, harass a couple college kids [...] I came across this gem in Annarbor.com: “Builder of ‘obscene snowman’ isn’t upset police told him to destroy it.” Here’s the meat of the story (so to speak): Police responded to (Mike) Scoffins’ North Summit Street home about 3:31 p.m. Tuesday after someone called to report an “obscene snowman,” a police incident log said. Scoffins [...] An alert reader sent me this, though I had also seen a press release about this too: from Freep.com, “Former Lions QB Charlie Batch, six others going into EMU Hall of Fame.” Good for Batch and the others included– Denise Allen (basketball), Jerry Cerulla (track), Angela (Springer) Johnson (track), Sharon McNie (gymnastics), Gary Patton [...] This notice just sent around from Edward Mullens: From the Physical Plant: Construction on the new science complex during winter break (March 1-5) will impact cooling units in Halle Library. Temperatures inside the library may become warmer than normal, possibly as high as 85 degrees. People using the building may want to dress in [...] I’m listening to a good and important story on NPR’s “Morning Edition” just now, “Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle for Justice.” The audio part of the story won’t be available until later today, but the text is there now. I think it illustrates the problem of rape on college campuses, and it also mentions [...] This is a little off-topic, but I know there are plenty of Detroit-city fans in the area, and for all I know, there are some Ypsilanti clips in here, too: via the great site boing-boing comes this just over an hour long collection of old film clips featuring Detroit between 1917 and 1970. I [...] Loyal reader/friend of the site Publius Crabgrass alerted me to this fine Dilbert comic: Notice that our PowerPoint presenter is discussing “PROJECT EMU.” Coincidence? Well, yes, probably so. But I think I’ll be checking back at dilbert.com this week to see if there is any mention of our fair campus and/or my favorite [...] This comes to me via something called Deadspin: “NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered the Art of Email Flaming.” It’s a little long, but the gist of it is that Scott Galloway, a NYU business professor and entrepreneur-type responded to an email sent to a student who was trying to explain why he showed [...] |
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