Optional Expand Horizons Event

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There are other things, but this film looks really cool tonight at 7 at Campus.

This is  not a Film.  It turns an Iranian filmmaker's, Jafar Pahani, ban into its own movie.

Trailer:

http://youtu.be/AgZy00svH08

There are other events to go to, but this looks like an interesting film.

Chipotle Outperforms McDonald’s

Would You Buy a White Paper? Last WWYD?

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As you know, we have been doing short vignettes-"What Would You Do?"-all semester.  A survey sent to BU faulty about "dishonesty among students" got me thinking about the ability to buy papers on the Internet.  I surfed to samedayessay.com .  The following transcript is verbatim.  I only changed the name of the customer service rep a I worried she would potentially face some retribution.

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Here is a post I wrote a year ago about my experience interacting with a paper mill.

The Schedule Rules- Schedule Reform Ideas for Higher Education (Bucknell)

I have a conflict.  I can’t go.  I have a meeting.  I have to be with my kids.

Read on to take the poll!

These are the various reason why students, staff, and others can not come to various worthy events at Bucknell.  For example, Tuesday nights are the one day without classes at night (lol except Friday, Saturday, and Sunday).  So the Bucknell Forum, as well as others, use Tuesday as the ideal night for these events.  Guess what?  It is also when students schedule their various clubs and organizations including the powerful Greek orgs.

At the same time, I have ahd students avoid 4-5 or 02-5 commitments because of sports practices or games/events.

Meanwhile, no one likes 8 a.m. classes.

And, most weeks there are 2-3 events which I would like to participate in but can’t because they are in the 7-9 at night window when I am with my family.

The schedule rules.  It is not sexy.  It is not “cool” like smart boards in classrooms, service-learning, or student-led expeditions to tag pythons for an ecology class.  However, I suggest that in terms of making life better AND using current resources better (as in more attendance at more events), the schedule is the most over-looked and also most urgent area of reform.

I have imagined various STRUCTURAL changes to the schedule which might help lessen some of these inherent conflicts.  

Protests, Political Art, Democracy, Social Change

Protests, Political Art, Democracy, Social Change, a group on Flickr.

Great Gallery

Carrots to Pull (veggie variation)

There are bigger carrots to pull.  I propose this as an alternative to “bigger fish to fry.”

I was writing to a colleague, who is a committed vegetarian, and wanted to write,

“There are more important fish to fry.”

That didn’t seem right.  So I suggested “there are bigger carrots to pull.”  Same idea.  More palatable to the non-carnivores out there.

Good phrase?

Phenomenon, Style, Ivan and Abel (Session 3)

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Session 3 snap word: phenomenon

Session 3 snap style: In most contexts, use as the subject of a sentence the actor (one that takes action) that a reader expects.  Hence, I argue in this paper.  We can see in this example.  Deontology requires following duty.  NOT, this paper argues.  It is illustrated in this example.  It is deontology that requires following duty.

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Fun tidbits from session 3, including an interesting ethics and sports situation with Ivan Fernandez and Abel Mutai.

5 a.m. Kitchen Observations

1) People in my household, including me, seem to think that the last 10-20% of a jar of jam is both priceless and inedible.

2) The people who make yummy jam and then put it into an octagonal or other non-circular vessel are secretly sadists who enjoy watching people try madly to get that last bit of yummy jam out of the corners.

View from my desk.

Trying to take a pic everyday to see how much progress can be made towards getting it cool again.

Unemployment Bad, Stock Markets Good

Among other puzzle son my mind these days is why if the economy is so bad in the US and globally, then the stock indices bounced back so much since January 2009.

increases in stock indices