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Campaign members Randy Fenstermacher and Tom Potter, who on Dec. 9 will attempt to capture HUCTW’s regional executive positions at FAS and the professional schools, respectively, advocate adding a “no layoffs” clause to the upcoming HUCTW contract...
...What gives this little group the right to screw over everyone like this, especially if their whole line is completely specious?” Potter said of the University administration earlier this week. “My problem with what is going on is that there hasn’t been a proactive campaign mounted by HUCTW demanding an end to these layoffs and defending the people who have been laid off. Our campaign is trying to light a fire under the union to get them going on this...
...Common Application asks applicants for their fields of study, giving them seven options. Leaving aside the two percent or so each year who brazenly thumb their noses at Byerly Hall and do not indicate a field of study, the application process, like the Hogwarts sorting hat of Harry Potter fame, divides up the class upon entry...
...Harry Potter isn't the only academic with an invisibility cloak. A professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear. Here's how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective material. The system has obvious military applications and could also be used in airplane cockpits to make landings easier for pilots...
...Commander, the first of what would be 20 volumes in his irresistible naval saga set in the time of the Napoleonic wars. But by the time the last volume appeared in 1999, O'Brian's tales of Captain Jack Aubrey and his shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin had become Harry Potter for grownups. Each new book was a heavily anticipated publishing event among not only weekend sailors but also people whose only prior encounter with seafaring had been Sloop John B. By now 8 million copies have been sold. And at O'Brian's death in 2000, William F. Buckley called...