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...Organic Consumers Association. There are some that conform to type: thirtyish and pale, sloppily dressed and bleary-eyed. Those are the journalists. There are a lot of them. One organizer put the ratio of conference-goers to reporters at eight to one, which seemed high until I visited one workshop that managed to score drive-bys from the Chicago Tribune, the National Review, the Weekly Standard, Salon, The New Republic and the American Prospect. At one point the room held more representatives from the New York Times (three) than workshop leaders...
...What were they so interested in? Media training - a testament to the narcissism of the profession, perhaps. The workshop culminated in mock TV interviews of newly minted pundits. The interrogations were suitably aggressive - the let's-pretend network must have been Fox News - though only a few newbie talking heads were rattled. One gentleman who came forward to playact a Q&A on the war in Iraq was asked if the recent capture and killing of terrorist al-Zarqawi showed that the Bush war was, in fact, working. Reviewing the tape afterwards, one of the workshop leaders complimented...
...workshop leader turned the awkward admission into a teachable moment, noting that it's usually a good idea, right before you go on TV, to check the latest headlines, adding, "Of course, you obviously didn't have a chance to do that, because you're at the Riviera...
...congenial for its Druids. To be sure, we have the teaching awards (and they will, happily, remain in place), but we also now inhabit a culture that sends an important message to new tenure-track faculty by providing them with the opportunity to participate in a weeklong teacher training workshop. Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) course evaluations and reports on teaching now play a major role in reviews for promotion and tenure. Resources are allocated in part on the basis of departmental contributions to undergraduate education...
...human beings who have mutated into seven sexes. One of the planets in the book only recognizes the male and female sexes. Scott says she identifies with all of her characters—sometimes in ways she doesn’t realize immediately. Scott recalls a recent writing workshop she gave at her old high school. At the event, a student asked her if she had ever used her writing to work out an emotional issue. Although her first instinct was to say “no,” Scott realized at that moment that the relationship between...