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Well-liked, not well-known

By alex | Published: 11/28/2006
Quinnipiac’s Polling Institute (with which I have no affiliation, beyond being at the same university) has recently released their “thermometer poll,” which asks respondents to simply indicate how “warm” they are to particular politicians, with 100 being warm and 0 being cold. The mean figures are as follows, with the parenthetical numbers indicating the percent […]
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Quinnipiac: Sports uber alles?

By alex | Published: 11/19/2006
Every week, Quinnipiac University shows up in newspapers on the East Coast. The most likely reason for the name appearing is a citation to a poll completed by the excellent Quinnipiac Polling Institute. If it’s not that, then it is the aggressively competitive Quinnipiac sports teams. Unfortunately, the most recent sports news out of Quinnipiac […]
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Undergrad advising verdict

By alex | Published: 11/2/2006
Undergraduate advising is a new part of my job. I was chatting with the other new hire, and among the schools we attended for undergrad and grad (me: Arizona State, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, University of Washington; him: Rutgers, USC), we never had faculty advisers. The advisor was someone you saw once or twice […]
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Quinnipiac Shame?

By alex | Published: 9/12/2006
I just sent out a note on the Association of Internet Researchers list advertising our new faculty positions at Quinnipiac. I was a bit surprised to find, in Google Mail, a contextual ad linking to Shame on Quinnipiac. (I wonder, by the way, if use of the typeface is a trademark violation in this case.) […]
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