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Though the topic of sexual assault did sober the students—who gasped and cringed throughout the event—Lisak’s message was one of hope more than resignation...
...essay or review. Then their writing--their baby--is ripped untimely from their computers (well, maybe only a couple of weeks overdue) and turned over to editors. These are idiots, most of them, and brutes, with tin ears, the aesthetic sensitivity of insects, deeply held erroneous beliefs about your topic and a maddening conviction that any article, no matter how eloquent or profound or already cut to the bone, can be improved by losing an additional 100 words...
...want to be a part of this.” Though humor is a large aspect of almost any Internet phenomenon, ROFLCon isn’t all fun and games. Scholars from around the country will moderate the panels and address online pop culture from an academic perspective. The topic doesn’t currently command much serious intellectual study, but ROFLCon may help change that. “A conference devoted to Internet culture is legitimizing in itself,” says Alice Marwick, a Ph.D. student at New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication...
...think an argument can be made that reduction of the quorum is likely to increase turnout,” Stock said. “Because any Faculty member who knows that quorum will be achieved will have an additional incentive to attend when there’s a topic being discussed that’s of interest to that particular Faculty member.” Stock is one of the three members of the Faculty’s docket committee—the body whose duties include overseeing what Professor of German Judith L. Ryan called...
...first step to making that case is understanding exactly what warmer temperatures will do to us and our diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models...