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Rights

We watched Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story last night. It was what I expected. That’s why I like Michael More, I think. He is anti-establishment, iconoclastic, and just doesn’t take shit. This makes him hated by the right and provides a necessary counterpoint to the dominance of the radical right media, like Fox News. [...]

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Cut It Out

Cut It Out

Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]

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Not a Business

Not a Business

In a meeting on campus the other day, someone said to me: “The college is a business.”
I responded: “No, it’s not. There might be business done in the college, but it is an institution of higher education.”
I know that many in this state — and perhaps around the country — are trying to sell this [...]

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Regional Imagery

Regional Imagery

Well, we finally did it: Giles and I have officially launched Regional Imagery, LLC. We envision it as a stock photography venture that specializes in images of place. We think that publishers and corporations are often interested in iconic shots and/or detail shots of particular places for use on book covers, brochures, web sites, etc. So, [...]

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