Nancy Cantor is keeping up with her academic integrity, and has found Joe Biden, serial plagiarizer, to be Syracuse's commencement speaker in one of many graduations across the country. Biden had plagiarized work while a student at the school as a result of him "simply misunderstood the need to cite sources carefully." A more accurate and eye-opening appraisal of the results one garners from a modern university education can hardly be found.
The TASSers at the Daily Orange, who gladly gloss over and actively praise Cantor's attacks on free speech of any kind (unless plagiarized or Cooked) were pleasantly amused by Biden's casual dismissal of his (or is it?) work.
Plagiarism, of course, is no longer a crime in academics anymore, as case after case after case has demonstrated. Instead, the meta narrative makes them all play dead.
What does the Ivory Tower consider crimes these days? This:
Saying "guns."
Being yourself.
Posted by Hound No. 7
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The minor buzz over at the UIUC revolves around the thrice-damaged signs protesting the Chief outside of the Native American House.
Teresa Ramos, whom the TASSers over at the DI can count upon at anytime to up the anglophobia quota, is back again at the News-Gazette (miraculously somehow promoted in ONE MONTH from Graduate student in her first letter to a PhD student) frothing over what she falsely asserts a lack of university response for the damage. As if a Phony hate-studies Doctorate (commonly known as a "PhD") in the Department of Fantasy-Academics (commonly known as "anthropology"), is not enough to raise some ears, her connection to ex-chancellor Nancy Cantor should be. In fact Cantor makes up part of the external advisory board of her pseudo-intellectual "diversity" undertaking prior to her exile from U-C. It seems, that the sigh of relief the populace had breathed after she was gone, was premature.
If Ramos had bothered to momentarily cease her banshee impressions and read something besides her own post-modern screed, she would have seen that police had offered security cameras set up to monitor the displays. And in good UofI fashion, the university decided to do the opposite of the most obvious course of action and decline.
As one poster for the above story asked, we join them as the most basic of all questions: why?
The university has in no way shown that it has any scruple for wasting money, so it does not seem likely that they will start now. How ironic that the NAH would not wish utilize tools best to catch the perpetrators.
Lest we forget, this is the same NAH, that on several occasions has attempted to stifle free speech (for good or for ill), which lauds itself for engaging in racist actions like painting faces black (which Ramos herself condemned!). Therefore, we can in no way discount the possibility that an organization that has engaged in conduct such as its previous skulduggery, would stoop to sabotaging their own display to rally support and accuse their opponents.
Before the temptation to accuse us Hounds of chasing black cars (we are Hounds, we do not do helicopters), it may wise to remember that this type of tactic is not unusual in a indocdiversity-laden institutions. Perhaps Kerri Dunn can vouch for this?
Posted by Hound No. 3
Teresa Ramos, whom the TASSers over at the DI can count upon at anytime to up the anglophobia quota, is back again at the News-Gazette (miraculously somehow promoted in ONE MONTH from Graduate student in her first letter to a PhD student) frothing over what she falsely asserts a lack of university response for the damage. As if a Phony hate-studies Doctorate (commonly known as a "PhD") in the Department of Fantasy-Academics (commonly known as "anthropology"), is not enough to raise some ears, her connection to ex-chancellor Nancy Cantor should be. In fact Cantor makes up part of the external advisory board of her pseudo-intellectual "diversity" undertaking prior to her exile from U-C. It seems, that the sigh of relief the populace had breathed after she was gone, was premature.
If Ramos had bothered to momentarily cease her banshee impressions and read something besides her own post-modern screed, she would have seen that police had offered security cameras set up to monitor the displays. And in good UofI fashion, the university decided to do the opposite of the most obvious course of action and decline.
As one poster for the above story asked, we join them as the most basic of all questions: why?
The university has in no way shown that it has any scruple for wasting money, so it does not seem likely that they will start now. How ironic that the NAH would not wish utilize tools best to catch the perpetrators.
Lest we forget, this is the same NAH, that on several occasions has attempted to stifle free speech (for good or for ill), which lauds itself for engaging in racist actions like painting faces black (which Ramos herself condemned!). Therefore, we can in no way discount the possibility that an organization that has engaged in conduct such as its previous skulduggery, would stoop to sabotaging their own display to rally support and accuse their opponents.
Before the temptation to accuse us Hounds of chasing black cars (we are Hounds, we do not do helicopters), it may wise to remember that this type of tactic is not unusual in a indocdiversity-laden institutions. Perhaps Kerri Dunn can vouch for this?
Posted by Hound No. 3
Thursday, May 14, 2009
UNDer the block
The University of North Dakota has caved to NCAA/Brand imperialism and has voted to make chop siouxee of the Fighting Sioux nickname, despite siouxing the NCAA for overstepping its authority.
UND Overlord Robert Kelly has made it quite clear that his whole plan has been to re-market the brand.
Marketing initiative? Hackademic translation: opportunistic, self-serving, bureaucratic avarice.
Posted by Hound No. 5
UND Overlord Robert Kelly has made it quite clear that his whole plan has been to re-market the brand.
"What this permits the University of North Dakota to do is to start a marketing initiative," Kelley said. "Over time, I think we would see enhancement of our revenue structure for athletic programs. I think we would see the enhancement of fan interest."
Fan interest? Any ruler of a university that thinks that fan interest will increase (just as it did with Chief Illiniwek's removal) raises serious questions as to they are competent to run a university.
Marketing initiative? Hackademic translation: opportunistic, self-serving, bureaucratic avarice.
Posted by Hound No. 5
This article, as the name would suggest, made our tails wag:
A Dog's Inheritance
Posted by Alpha Hound
A Dog's Inheritance
Posted by Alpha Hound
Monday, May 11, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The DI tells Global Campus to DIE?
Nothing could have prepared us for last week's editorial in the DI. Amidst the usual nonsensical, hate-filled screed of Paul Cruise, the DI launched a blistering critique of the Global Campus 2.0 (at least the zero seems appropriate). After taking a moment to purvey some of the statements of this article, it becomes twice as incredulous that the DI wrote this. For example:
The DI, as we have posted previously, had been ardent shills of the skunk White and his machinations for quite a while. Indeed, the DI had advertising links to the office of GC until their new format. Also, White's less-than-honest manner in the killing of Chief Illiniwek gained him unconditional TASSer loyalty from the DI.
For other reasons as well, this long-overdue development is not nearly enough to reverse the DI sycophants' standings as TASSers. The revelation about DeBrock came several weeks too late after the News Gazette's, and naturally makes no mention of his shady past. It does mention Ghosh in the past tense, but nothing surrounding his quest to take care of the "too many jar heads" nor his suspicious departure.
Posted by Hound No. 9
"...the program has fallen flat on its face."
"Even President White said, 'What we ought to do is reset the approach we were taking and learn from the last couple of years what has worked. And let’s go with what has worked and eliminate what hasn’t.'
'Go with what has worked and eliminate what hasn’t'? What hasn’t worked has been the entire program. It’s time to face the truth"
"And what we pick and what we choose should be for the best of our University as a whole, and that
would not be Global Campus."
The DI, as we have posted previously, had been ardent shills of the skunk White and his machinations for quite a while. Indeed, the DI had advertising links to the office of GC until their new format. Also, White's less-than-honest manner in the killing of Chief Illiniwek gained him unconditional TASSer loyalty from the DI.
For other reasons as well, this long-overdue development is not nearly enough to reverse the DI sycophants' standings as TASSers. The revelation about DeBrock came several weeks too late after the News Gazette's, and naturally makes no mention of his shady past. It does mention Ghosh in the past tense, but nothing surrounding his quest to take care of the "too many jar heads" nor his suspicious departure.
Posted by Hound No. 9
Charting a Course
Over at Critical Mass, Erin O'Conner has a great post on charter schools in response to a column by David Brooks. We will not post much on that here, as one can read it easily enough at the linked site.
CM makes an amazing statement after the Brooks quotes while listing
the numerous faults of the present education setup:
CM makes an amazing statement after the Brooks quotes while listing
the numerous faults of the present education setup:
"School choice and high standards work. We should stop arguing about it, and start doing it. It's the most decadent, arrogant form of waste to argue against it--it steals kids' futures for the sake of adults' partisan politics in the present.
FWIW: The year I spent teaching at a boarding school was a sharp and clear lesson in what kids respond to and what doesn't work for them. The school was hobbled by a rigid adherence to certain progressive practices and beliefs -- as in, no grades (just supportive report letters); no emphasis on basics such as spelling and grammar (because that might turn kids off); no tracking of any kind (because egalitarian mediocrity that served no one was preferable to the comparisons kids might draw if some were allowed to excel).
The most striking point in the quote describes the "egalitarian mediocrity" which permeates like some virulent miasma within our primary education system. Aye, several of us remember in our Obedience School where dogs could not learn new tricks-it would be unfair to those who were sub par.
In other noteworthy events, Chapin Rose had grilled skunk for breakfast last week during a question and answer session with skunk White. White is trying to cast aside criticism of his new (but hardly improved) version of the Global Campus 2.0. Panelists for coming up with a way to sidestep scrutiny of the failed program have made comments including by the co-chair "The proposed initiative would never run at a deficit." (not true unless the UI considers an excess of $3 million does not qualify as a deficit) to "We owe Global Campus a debt" (sort of true-as far as emphasis on "debt"). Watching White squirm under the examination makes us wonder whether in future if he will adopt the Glen Poshard method of alleviating scrutiny and criticism, as he has already once attempted to make himself arbiter of IL law in a move that only Palpatine could approve of, by undertaking ethics policy that should be left to lawmakers.
Posted by Alpha Hound
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