There’s a nice article in Inside Higher Ed today by a faculty member suddenly working in admissions: Whole sections of the admissions and recruitment process might not even be part of the division of academic affairs, but part of an enrollment services division, staffed by people who are experts in marketing, admissions, financial aid and […]
Month: May 2007
The World of Wide Sports
Ethan Zuckerman offers a recap of the latest developments in sumo: The May basho at Ryogoku Kokugikan ended yesterday with a clash between two profoundly talented rikishi. One was Asashoryu, who has been the sole Yokozuna – grand champion – of the sport since Takanohana retired in 2003. The other was Hakuho, who held an […]
Open Source Musical Interpretations
While poking around to double-check the lyrics for several of the songs in the previous post, I stumbled across SongMeanings.net, which turns out to be fairly entertaining. As the name suggests, it’s a site where you can find a pretty comprehensive list of song lyrics by different artists, with notes attached regarding the meaning of […]
Memorial Day Nostalgia Tunes
For most people in the US, this is a day off. For most academics in the US, this is already summer. Not so for us– we’re on trimesters, so we’re still in session, and have classes scheduled. This tends to undercut the solemnity of the occasion. There’s also an Admissions event today, and then I’m […]
Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day in the US, which is the official public tribute to the dead of our various wars. This is marked with parades, and ceremonies at cemetaries in towns all across the country. When I was a kid, we always went to the parade in town, which went from the center of town out […]
Bicycling Report: Thank God for Cell Phones
Saturday, I went for a good long bike ride before it got hot, making it all the way to the end of the Erie Canal portion of the bike path. There’s a “detour” that takes you to further path via some dirt roads, but I opted instead for the quiet stretch of path along the […]
BitterCon: Three Strikes and You’re Out
I’m not particularly pining for WisCon, but for those who are, let me throw out a movie topic for discussion: Three Strikes and You’re Out: Why Do Third Movies Suck So Much? It’s a well-known phenomenon in genre film: in a series of movies, the third movie is almost always where the series goes off […]
Welcome to Bittercon
There’s a popular science fiction convention going on this weekend in Madiscon, WI. Of course, not everyone can make it to these things, so some people in LiveJournal Land have put together BitterCon, and online event for those unable to attend WisCon. Kate’s jumped right in, providing space for a bunch of panels in the […]
Not Just Outside the Box, but Orthogonal to It
One of the many after-hours events contributing to my exhaustion this week was the annual Sigma Xi award and initiation banquet, at which some fifty students were recognized for their undergraduate research accomplishments. The banquet also featured a very nice presentation on visualizing a four-dimensional cube by Prof. Davide Cervone of the Math department here. […]
Cheery Friday Thought
Courtesy of EurekAlert: physicists Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University and Robert J. Scherrer from Vanderbilt University predict that trillions of years into the future, the information that currently allows us to understand how the universe expands will have disappeared over the visible horizon. What remains will be “an island universe” made from the […]