October 2008
17 posts
“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in...”
– John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
The Unfortunately Timely Class of the Day
This Williams class analyzes the rise and fall of civilizations in early “Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Mesoamerica and South America”—looks like Williams might need to present day America.
ANTH 214(F) The Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Same as Environmental Studies 224) Over the centuries, philosophers and historians have asked how societies evolved from simple hunter-gatherer...
September 2008
15 posts
Library at Haverford
A beatiful library is absolutely necessary in order to get a good education, and Haverford passes the test. A beautiful study space can calm your nerves, awaken your mind, and inspire the very best part in all of us. This is all dependent on actually using the library, which no one really does.
Totally Bitchin' Class of the Day
For anyone wanting to liv out their detective fantasies, this class sounds awesome:
INTD 1055 CSI: Middlebury
Students will gain hands-on experience in forensic science and explore historical crimes from a modern perspective. Course topics and activities will include deductive reasoning, crime scene analysis, chemical and biochemical testing, and fingerprinting, among others. Students will meet...
Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart University is using an approach to pairing roommates that is so simple, it is almost laughable that every school doesn’t use some version of the service provided at roommateclick.com. Roommateclick is a service that helps people find roommates, which in the real world is probably just as dicey as finding a roommate on craigslist—it could work, it could not. But this...
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The College Sustainability Report Card
Green report card (http://greenreportcard.org/) just launched today and allows users to examine and compare the ecological sustainability of 300+ US and Canadian colleges. Schools are ranked report card style aspects such as administration, energy, food and recycling, green building, student involvement, endowment transparency, and investment priorities.
“The Report Card is the only...
Towns Graduates Can't Seem to Leave, We Have No... →
Apparently it is getting harder and harder for students to leave their college towns. These utopian bubbles are so comfortable that post-grads are hanging around, wandering around the main quad and “translating mexican novels”. Apparently, these slackers didn’t go to college in Poughkeepsie.
Olds Say SAT Doesn't Mean A Thing, Obvi →
Daily podcast from Swarthmore’s War News...
Totally Bitchin' Class of the Day
Below is the course decription for a religion class at Vassar offered this Spring by Professor Jonathon Kahn:
210b. Does the Secular Exist? (1)
Is there a distinct realm called the secular, which is free of and from the religious? As sons and daughters of the Enlightenment, we’ve come to think that there is. What sort of philosophical and historical moments have led to the public insistence on a...
“And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts...”
– David Foster Wallce, 2005 Commencement Speech at Kenyon College
