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Quinnipiac Chronicle and administrative “oversight”

By alex | Published: 12/8/2007
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?

By alex | Published: 10/2/2007
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 […]
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Facebook kinda sucks

By alex | Published: 7/14/2007
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 […]
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Steve Kroft wins Fred Friendly award

By alex | Published: 5/21/2007
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 […]
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