Showing posts with label universities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label universities. Show all posts
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Death and Tennyson on a conservative podcast

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I somehow found myself watching an hour-long podcast with two conservatives. Yes, I know I should have been shocked, appalled even, but it w...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

To the barricades – patiently, part one

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Antiwar protests on college campuses are in the news and it’s no longer 1970. In the spring of 2024, young people are objecting to Israel’s ...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Elmore Leonard: great stories, memorable characters, and snappy banter

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There’s magic in Elmore Leonard’s writing. In his novels, he tells a whopping good story and entrances the reader with the banter among char...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Saturday Morning Round-up: Pretty Flowers, a Cornhusker Goes South, and Outrage in Tennessee

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It’s mid-April and we’re experiencing our usual schizoid mix of warm days in the 70s interrupted by bursts of snow and cold. Humans are conf...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Happy graduation, Annie. You did it!

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Annie Shay, happy graduate (LCCC photo) Daughter Annie graduates from Laramie County Community College on Saturday. We are so proud of her. ...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Boring old college lecturer responds to "The Chair"

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Watched the last episode of "The Chair" this week. I laughed, I cried. Various faculty and administrators and students pissed me o...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Part XI: The Way Mike Worked -- The long road to a career as arts administrator

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Arts administrator. Nice alliterative term. Features the noun arts , which we all know is a right-brain function, with administrator , whi...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Part V: The Way Mike Worked -- Serving Fish 'n' Chips in Shrimp 'n' Grits Country

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We called her Mom. She insisted. Never found out her real name. Her husband Tally called her "dear" or "hon" in the Sout...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Part IV: The Way Mike Worked -- This job stinks!

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"This job stinks," I complained to Ronnie. He looked at me over a pile of dirty laundry. Smoke from a Marlboro wreathed his fa...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Dear White People: Columbia University wants to know what you think about the issues of the day

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Columbia University's Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) wants to find out what white and partially-wh...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Old photo recalls 1970s-era campus hijinks

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This photo by renowned photog and my college housemate Bob Page shows ritualistic behavior in collegians circa 1975. In the mid-70s, it wa...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

What I learned in graduate school, part one

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It seems as if I've read hundreds of critiques about M.F.A. writing programs over the years. They usually fall into two camps. No. 1: I...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Slate asks: What if UW President Tom Buchanan had given a speech defending "Carbon Sink?"

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From an Oct. 31 article by Michelle Nijhuis on Slate Online about the "Carbon Sink" brouhaha at the University of Wyoming (the c...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

This Liberal Arts grad in Wyoming urges Florida creatives to come to a place where they are valued

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Florida's Gov. Rick Scott and his hand-picked education commission want to charge creatives more college tuition than science and math m...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

You can "harumph" all you want, but a generational shift is underway in the arts world

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Argentango is one of the many artists and arts groups seen on Old Town Fort Collins street corners during "Streetmospheres." ...