Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2004
A Liberal Professor Fights a Label
A faculty member accused of bias takes on students and a conservative group
By JENNIFER JACOBSON
Oneida J. Meranto did something this semester that she had never done in
her career. She tape-recorded her lecture.
Th
Litigating the Election
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 22 November 2004
Without much fanfare, a number of lawyers are busy mounting court
challenges to the election. Lawsuits have been filed and other actions are
being taken in Ohio and Florida, the two
Clearly the "academic bill of rights" can be, and is being, used to harass
and intimidate instructors, because cases are being brought that have no
merit whatsoever. This is a big threat to academic freedom.
One way to protect both instructors and students from ideological harassment
and intimida
Drewk writes: > One way to protect both instructors and students from
ideological harassment and intimidation is to include a significant
penalty for students who bring charges that are found to be without any
merit.<
There should also be some sort of penalty for those faculty and
administrators w
Andrew, there is no need for such snide remarks here!
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:31:05AM -0500, Drewk wrote:
> Clearly the "academic bill of rights" can be, and is being, used to harass
> and intimidate instructors, because cases are being brought that have no
> merit whatsoever. This is a big th
People on pen-l may be interested the project below.
Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; web: http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/
-Original Message-
From: Wade Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 8:43 PM
Dear Fellow Progressives:
You are invited to rank nin
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Attention Hollywood, here are some ideas for movies.
a documentary tracing the route of the "Motorcycle
Diaries," showing
how
Latin America has changed -- and hasn't -- since Che
and his friend
traveled during the early 1950s.
---
Russian TV is prod
Title: Message
WAS IT
HACKED? By Alan WaldmanPublished
11/18/04http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/Story.asp?ID=4688 Despite
mainstream media attempts to kill the story, talk radio and the Internet are
abuzz with suggestions that John Kerry was elected president on Nov. 2 – but
Republican
Eubulides wrote:
> http://leiterreports.typepad.com/ Is economics a "science", revisited
>
>
ian, have you read toulmin's recent book? (return to reason). thoughts?
here's shapin:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n02/shap01_.html
relevant:
> The 17th-century Quest for Certainty (in Dewey's phrase)
I'm sorry, Michael, I didn't mean to be snide. I meant to be enraged,
furious, and indignant.
I agree that there's no need to be snide, but I have lots of reason to be
enraged, furious, and indignant against the perpetrators and defenders of
suppression.
Andrew Kliman
- Original Message ---
Well, that kind of rage does not belong here either. We have already been over
that
debate.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:04:34PM -0500, Drewk wrote:
> I'm sorry, Michael, I didn't mean to be snide. I meant to be enraged,
> furious, and indignant.
>
> I agree that there's no need to be snide, but
"We have already been over that debate."
I greatly resent my ability to be heard and not to be slandered being a
matter of "debate."
Yes, we have been over it, but justice has not been done -- yet.
Do you expect people simply to give in when persecuted? Or to deal with
their persecutors with te
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/2004 11:02:09 PM >>>
Michael Pollack & others: How did the Right discuss its future right
after
Goldwater's defeat? What sort of narrative did they offer.
michael hoover here, not pollak...
events between 64 and 68 eroded liberal direction in which country
*
I had three excellent teachers as an undergraduate. Wolfgang Stolper -- a
famous
economist, whose classes mostly covered music, philosophy, stories about
Schumpeter, and
European history -- Dan Fusfeld, who allowed me to take a graduate class in
history of
economic thought that consisted of me
Families USA Establishes Wellstone Fellowship for
Social Justice
Deadline: January 7, 2005
Families USA ( http://familiesusa.org/ ), a national
nonprofit organization dedicated to the achievement of
high-quality affordable health care for all Americans, has
announced the establishment of the W
Reading about the dollar's decline leads to this speculation.
The dollar slides.
Consumer prices rise as imports get more expensive.
A second rise in consumer prices comes from revaluation of China's currency.
Interest rates rise as the old guard tries to choke inflation by
tightening money.
Intere
Fight Night in the NBA
By Dave Zirin
I don't think we'll be hearing the 'NBA Action is Fntstic' slogan
revived anytime soon. The aftermath of the most violent player/fan
brawl in US sports history has met with the hand wringing we
usually associate with Janet Jackson's right breast. The fight
b
Two thoughts on Lou.s message. The article did not mention the tremendous gulf
between the
economic status of the players and fans -- except the celebrity fans. A couple
weeks ago,
if I remember correctly, Latrell Sprewell, was griping about a $14 million
salary,
explaining, "I've got to put f
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I appreciate Michael Hoover.s response. I asked my question because I did not
have any
recollection of conservative handwringing after the Goldwater defeat. Instead
conservatives became more determined rather than wondering if they should
become more like
the Democrats.
--
Michael Perelman
Eco
For immediate release November 22, 2004
Middle East Report 233
Winter 2004
IRAN'S CLOUDED HORIZONS
After many modestly hopeful fits and starts, the "reformist moment" in
Iran's Islamic Revolution is over. Hardline conservative clerics have
recaptured almost the entire state. The hardliners and Wash
Should progressives look to China as a socialist
alternative? Today on Against the Grain Martin
Hart-Lansberg and Paul Burkett talk about their
book-length edition of Monthly Review titled "China
and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle."
Listen to it live from noon to 1pm PST on KPFA 94.1
Louis Proyect wrote:
> Fight Night in the NBA
> By Dave Zirin
>
> ... The aftermath of the most violent player/fan
> brawl in US sports history...
>
this trivial throwing of fists was the most violent player/fan brawl in
US sports history? you got to be kidding me!
--ravi
Eugene Coyle writes:
> Subject: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?
>
> Reading
about the dollar's decline leads to this speculation.
>
> The dollar slides.
Comment: Worse, the slide becomes a speculative plunge, a free-fall.
> Consumer prices rise as imports get more expensiv
Devine, James wrote:
I think this is exaggerated: excess capacity and unemployment
discourage inflation. The inflation we have now in the US is mostly
due to oil and medical costs, which have special explanations.
There's no price/wage spiral at this point to be sped up by the
dollar's fall.
There
Not really. When the dollar last declined, Japanese manufacturers reduced
margins &
even absorbed losses to maintain their beachhead here.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> There will be a pretty mechanical feed-through from a weaker dollar
> to higher import pri
Michael Perelman wrote:
Not really. When the dollar last declined, Japanese manufacturers
reduced margins &
even absorbed losses to maintain their beachhead here.
Yes really. When the dollar declined in 1986 and 1987, inflation rose
from below 2% to above 4%. Based on the historical record, we can
I guess that I fixed on your term "mechanical". There will be some effect, but
..
There are a number of studies like this:
Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou and Michael M. Knetter. 1997. "Goods Prices and
Exchange
Rates: What Have We Learned?" Journal of Economic Literature, 35: 3
(September): pp.
Luckily, I used the weasel-word "exaggerated" which means that even if
you're right, I'm right too.
;-)
Doug also wrote:
>When the dollar declined in 1986 and 1987, inflation rose from below 2%
to above 4%.<
One difference was that during that period, the unemployment rate in
both the US and the
In an e-mailing I just received from the American Civil Liberties Union,
it is reported that
>In the last two weeks, thousands of people - deeply concerned about the
direction our country has taken - have spontaneously joined the ACLU.<
We're going to need the ACLU
Jim Devine (who rejoined the
The Boston Globe report below supports the view that the US may not so much
be trying to "win" the war in Iraq, as it is desperately trying to find a
way to extricate itself from a deepening quagmire without it appearing to
the world that it has been routed, which is not the "demonstration effect"
>Also, the article discusses the racial makeup of fans and players. I remember reading an economics article explaining how teams like Salt Lake City, located in predominantly white areas, pay more for white bench sitters to not alienate fans by making basketball a black sport. Detroit was used,
Clearly (albeit in coded terms) the Bush administration sees no merit
in defending the dollar.
I would have thought the Bush administration is counting on the size
of the US economy and the parochialism of the US population, most of
whom do not travel outside the USA. If imports become somewhat mor
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