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Tweets
- @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
- Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
- This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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Quinnipiac Chronicle and administrative “oversight”
I haven’t blogged about the ongoing saga of the Quinnipiac Chronicle, our student paper, which is facing administrative censorship. An editorial printed in the paper lays out the problems: efforts to constrain the way the paper represents the university and its policies. The president doesn’t like how his position has been portrayed in the paper, [...]
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A big fan of war?
Jimmy Carter was on campus to receive an award as part of the Albert Schweitzer Institute’s activities. Our student paper led with a quote from one of our students who attended Carter’s speech: “I am an advocate of war, but after hearing his speech, I do not understand why people would ever want the use [...]
Facebook kinda sucks
OK, not really; just an inflammatory headline. I think it’s great that they’ve opened up the site and are letting others build it. It seems like a model (cf. eBay, YouTube, Second Life) that is bankable. But what is a pain is that I can’t tell them what classes I’m teaching, because my home program–the [...]
Steve Kroft wins Fred Friendly award
Quinnipiac University annually presents the Fred Friendly Award to honor those who have shown courage in defending free speech, and getting us the news we depend on as a democracy. Past winners have included many of the top broadcasters in the United States, including folks like Tom Brokaw and Jim Lehrer. This year’s honoree was [...]
Quinnipiac Graduate Commencement
I’ll be there (as a marshall)–if you would like to be there, but can’t, you can watch on the web.
Righting a Class
Courses are not going as well as I would like this semester, and one course in particular. I haven’t written about it until now, since this blog is normally filled with happy thoughts. Besides, I figured I would wait until after the class was over and do a post-mortem. But then I realized that I [...]
Chronicle on Quinnipiac’s expansion