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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

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    This isn't higher ed, but it still applies:

    B.C. teacher fired for having the wrong opinion

    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-co...-wrong-opinion

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    The Higher Education Thread

    Nicholas Kristof continues to earn respect by being willing to criticize his own ideological kind.

    The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus

    "We liberals are adept at pointing out the hypocrisies of Trump, but we should also address our own hypocrisy in terrain we govern, such as most universities: Too often, we embrace diversity of all kinds except for ideological. Repeated studies have found that about 10 percent of professors in the social sciences or the humanities are Republicans.

    "We champion tolerance, except for conservatives and evangelical Christians. We want to be inclusive of people who don’t look like us — so long as they think like us."

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/10...m.facebook.com

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

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    Interesting.

    Volokh: University Of Oregon’s Punishment Of Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz May Signal The End Of Free Speech For All Professors At All Universities.

    http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_b...or-all-pr.html

    Solon, what do you think?

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Interesting.

    Volokh: University Of Oregon’s Punishment Of Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz May Signal The End Of Free Speech For All Professors At All Universities.

    http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_b...or-all-pr.html

    Solon, what do you think?
    The article doesn't mention any history of complaints in her 30 years of distinguished employment with the university. If that's the case, I would think a reasonable person would accept her apology and move on. But, neither professors nor lawyers have a stellar reputation for being reasonable.
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    Don't know the context of this complaint, but the blackface and curly headed wig was in pretty bad taste, regardless of intent. I don't understand why it was important that somebody at the party indicate they were offended. How many people actually do that? It's a party. Bail out if you're offended. I'm not even faculty, and I feel an obligation to steer clear of any controversial ethnic or religious stuff. I've only heard a handful of anti-Mormon remarks over 18 years, and I shook my head.

    I thought the Stanford Band mocking BYU by portraying themselves as polygamists with three wives for every man was in bad taste, too.

    I wonder if we're on the cusp of a very strong anti-PC movement, nationally. Bring back the "real" America kind of thing. One of my colleagues, a research associate who happens to be Jewish, has been interviewing for jobs in Canada.

    "We Jews encounter serious resentment every 50 years or so. With the election, it's clear there's a lot of anger, people looking for scapegoats. Jews know we're not really white, just like Mormons should know that when push comes to shove, they're not really Christian, and with the Breitbart connection now in the White House, I'm not waiting for things to actually unravel. They're already crazy enough for me. My parents always made us watch anything they found about the Holocaust. 'Don't ever let this happen again'. For Jews, it's fight, or flight, or hunker down. The hunker down didn't work in Europe 70 years ago. I'm not sticking around".

    Hyper-sensitive liberal? Canary in the coalmine?

    She did say she felt fairly protected in Utah, and research jobs aren't exactly easy to get. We'll see what happens, but her Skymiles card is getting a workout.

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    http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/fait...could-move-air

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diehard Ute View Post
    http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/fait...could-move-air

    BYU may lose their ROTC detachment....over coffee at a Colonel's house.
    BYU continues its unbreakable record streak of crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sancho View Post
    BYU continues its unbreakable record streak of crazy.

    They're just LaVell-ing the score now.

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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Compelling piece by Stanford's provost.

    The threat from within

    http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/21/...t-from-within/


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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Jordan Peterson, hero of the anti-PC crowd, just keeps winning

    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-keeps-winning

    It wasn’t long ago that University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson’s future seemed somewhat in doubt. He rose to prominence — many would say notoriety — last autumn with his public refusal to use transgender and non-binary students’ pronouns of choice: “xe,” “zir” and “they,” for example. It was part of a multi-pronged YouTube campaign against political correctness and “compelled speech,” and against federal legislation that would make gender expression and gender identity prohibited grounds for discrimination.

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    Check out our new video! "Who Killed the Liberal Arts?"

    What in the world happened to the liberal arts? A degree in the humanities used to transmit the knowledge and wisdom imbued in the works of great Western artists, writers, musicians and thinkers like Shakespeare and Mozart. But today, that same degree stresses Western racism, sexism, imperialism, and other ills and sins that reinforce a sense of victimhood and narcissism. So, what happened? Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute explains.
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    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Thoughtful, balanced piece by Frank Bruni:

    These Campus Inquisitions Must Stop

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/0...m/instapundit/

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by LA Ute View Post
    Thoughtful, balanced piece by Frank Bruni:

    These Campus Inquisitions Must Stop

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/0...m/instapundit/
    Good article.

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    Forget the reason she was fired.....One year out of college with only a BS and no experience in the field, teaching a college level class at a four year university. Is this common at BYUI?



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    I just know this is the right job for someone out there on this board. The lucky person hired will start at a salary of between $46,000.00 – $57,000.00. Plus you get to work at a prestigious Big 10 school.

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    Coordinates Bias Incident Response Efforts (40%)• Receives campus reports of bias incidents and reviews them with designated campus and community partners for investigation and response.• Assists students impacted or targeted by bias incidents with navigating community impacts and effects.• Creates and develops a diverse team of Student Life and campus partners to provide direct support to targets of bias who have reached out to the Dean of Students Office for assistance.• Serves as a process advocate through assisting students in the development of an understanding and appropriate navigation of the bias incident response process.• Coordinates the assignment of bias incidents for response and follow up to other team members as indicated.• Coordinates appropriate and effective intervention and communication between multiple campus offices including staff members in the academic units, DEI leads involved in the response to bias incidents impacting students on and off campus, and the provision of support to individuals and groups targeted by bias behaviors.• Maintains strong working relationships with Multi Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), the Trotter Multicultural Center, the Office for Institutional Equity, the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, the Office of the General Counsel, University of Michigan Police Department, University Housing, Residence Education, Housing Security and other units assisting in the response to and management of bias incidents.• Assists in providing on-going training for the team and other campus partners.• Creates semester and annual reports documenting the work of the Bias Response Team.• Responds to requests for information about the Bias Response Team.• Assists the Assistant Dean of Students on the coordination of bi-monthly Bias Response Team meetings; prepares minutes, follows up with team members regarding assignments, and provides summative information on response team members’ efforts to particular incidents.

    Coordinates Bias Prevention Efforts and Expect Respect Initiatives (25%)• Implements annual initiatives to publicize campus Expect Respect program and maintain Expect Respect website.• Distributes annual Expect Respect letter to faculty, staff, and students.• Collaborates with the Office of New Student Programs to ensure annual Expect Respect messaging begins in orientation programs.• Collaborates with schools/colleges to ensure consistent messaging.• Supervises student Expect Respect program assistant(s).• Partners with other campus and divisional social justice initiatives.• Enacts cultural appropriation prevention initiatives.• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with identity-based student organizations.

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    SMU changes policy saying displays can be ‘triggering, harmful’

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.d0a1ef1cd161

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    Quote Originally Posted by mUUser View Post
    Forget the reason she was fired.....One year out of college with only a BS and no experience in the field, teaching a college level class at a four year university. Is this common at BYUI?



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    I had a friend who worked at the BYUI who corroborated a lot of what I already thought.
    My daughter had several friend from high school who went there, and ditto.

    BYUI is a glorified high school. So, on one hand it doesn't really surprise me.

    On the other hand, academic positions are so hard to find, I would think that that a lot of momon MS/MA/PhDs would be chomping at the bit to get a gig at the BYUI if they can't get one at the BYUP.

    Put university in quotes, and I think it will all make sense.

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    Why Men Are the New College Minority

    Males are enrolling in higher education at alarmingly low rates, and some colleges are working hard to reverse the trend.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/educatio...nority/536103/

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    The Higher Education Thread

    Nobody but poor ol' LA Ute posts in this thread anymore. It's gotten to the point that he refers to himself in the third person.

    Anyway, this is a well-written account of what he thinks is a serious problem:

    Safe spaces and ‘ze’ badges: My bewildering year at a US university

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/...us-university/
    Last edited by LA Ute; 08-24-2017 at 02:21 PM.

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    I'll bite. At first blush, I find the safe place stuff silly. However, I think we all ask for safe places in one way or another. I get really tired of hearing one guy who sits a row behind me at the football game say fuck in almost every sentence. After a a few minutes I have had enough and ask him to knock it off. In all fairness, I feel free to tell the guy who thinks he is the second coming of Vince Lombardi to get down on the sidelines and start calling in the plays and making the correct substitutions. I also tire of the assholes across the isle who make crude statements to BYU fans every time we play them and feel free to tell them that if they continue I will have the ushers remove them. I'm pretty sure I would do the same thing if they were making racist statements or denigrating jews. It's fine to make derogatory statements about ASU. ASU fans are the worst. So, I guess I have things that I don't want to hear.

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    I would draw a distinction between speech that is generally considered offensive by just about any measure, on the one hand; and on the other, ideas or opinions that may be offensive to those who disagree.

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Interesting piece.

    $330,000 in financial aid bought me a slot in the American meritocracy. Now I see its flaws.

    https://www.vox.com/first-person/201...mic-inequality

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ademia-poverty

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    Quote Originally Posted by tooblue View Post
    Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ademia-poverty
    Hang in there buddy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LA Ute View Post
    Interesting piece.

    $330,000 in financial aid bought me a slot in the American meritocracy. Now I see its flaws.

    https://www.vox.com/first-person/201...mic-inequality
    This article is a good tandem with the David Brooks column about the Post WWII Protestant order being replaced by the likes of Abbie Hoffman with the 60s/70s Meritocracy, which is now being attacked by Trump (and many others) who sow distrust in education and the educated.

    The salary structure where I work is very bottom line oriented. We (essentially) have a star system, where the best, brightest and most productive are well taken care of, and salaries lag for everyone else (especially after the Great Recession). I don't think it's an intentional policy - funding for academic research is brutally constrained and under threat - but the mantra is: "You never have perfect equity. You move in that direction over time, and if need be, you protect against stars leaving with pay adjustments".

    With all of our salary information as public knowledge, this presents tensions within my team. "You may be very smart, and work hard, and went to college. Good for you, but I have kids, too."

    My team is a microcosm of America, today. Even though we're within an academic institution, among this small sub-culture of IT folks who don't have / don't care for academic curiosity and pursuit, there is a populist disregard for education and distrust of the educated, based on the human instinct to retreat into self-interest when economic storm clouds are on the horizon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ma'ake View Post
    This article is a good tandem with the David Brooks column about the Post WWII Protestant order being replaced by the likes of Abbie Hoffman with the 60s/70s Meritocracy, which is now being attacked by Trump (and many others) who sow distrust in education and the educated.

    The salary structure where I work is very bottom line oriented. We (essentially) have a star system, where the best, brightest and most productive are well taken care of, and salaries lag for everyone else (especially after the Great Recession). I don't think it's an intentional policy - funding for academic research is brutally constrained and under threat - but the mantra is: "You never have perfect equity. You move in that direction over time, and if need be, you protect against stars leaving with pay adjustments".

    With all of our salary information as public knowledge, this presents tensions within my team. "You may be very smart, and work hard, and went to college. Good for you, but I have kids, too."

    My team is a microcosm of America, today. Even though we're within an academic institution, among this small sub-culture of IT folks who don't have / don't care for academic curiosity and pursuit, there is a populist disregard for education and distrust of the educated, based on the human instinct to retreat into self-interest when economic storm clouds are on the horizon.
    What you describe, if I am correctly understanding you, is a good description of our IT department. They are willfully obtuse and often indifferent about what faculty does, and how their policies and the inherent inefficiencies that accompany them affect the learning environment, largely to the detriment of students. Which is insanity, when you consider their jobs, along with my own, exists only and exclusively because the students exist. It's unfathomable how often they must be reminded they exist to serve the students.

    I wish there was a star system, where the best, brightest and most productive are well taken care of among faculty. I am better at what I do than 80 percent of my colleagues. It might sound boastful, but I don't care. There are far too many faculty who do nothing to upgrade their knowledge and skills, and mostly just survive year to year. But that star system will never happen. We are in a contract year. Our union has already put us in a strike position with untenable demands. If we go on strike it will be a long one.

    The bright side is, at least I am 'tenured' in a sense and not suffering as adjuncts in the US do. Actually, that is one of the reasons for the strike. To find a way to better protect our partial load and part-time faculty. The education system here has slowly been moving towards becoming more similar to the US, at least in demanding greater accreditation, for less pay and no job security. Education in North America is broken in many many ways.

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