The University of Kentucky has put a hiring freeze in place in response to a state budget crunch, The Kentucky Kernal, the school’s daily student newspaper, reports:
UK President Lee Todd announced in a campus-wide e-mail yesterday an immediate hiring freeze for all university staff positions with the exception of those at the hospital.
The freeze came in response to Gov. Steve Beshear’s 3-percent budget cut for state agencies and public universities through the end of the fiscal year in June. The decrease will result in a cut of about $10-million for UK.
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9 Responses to Hiring Freeze at the U. of Kentucky
lamoglie - September 8, 2011 at 6:11 am
Are you saying that ‘up’ is a separable adverbial rather than a ‘particle’ in a phrasal verb (thus inseparable as part of the verb but also capable of ‘particle movement’ — “he snatched them up”)?
Lucy Ferriss - September 8, 2011 at 9:13 am
You could probably go either way–adverb or phrasal particle. “Snatch up” can be replaced by the word “steal,” which argues for “up”‘s being part of the verb. My preference, though, is to consider “snatch up” like “lift up,” wherein you could leave “up” off and have essentially the same meaning (snatch people, lift dance partner), but wherein “up” does indicate, if only metaphorically, a direction and should therefore be classified as an adverb.
marcleavitt - September 8, 2011 at 9:34 am
This is off the point, but I couldn’t restrain myself. I haven’t diagrammed a sentence since freshman English at prep school lo these many years. At a parent-teacher conference involving my son, at the same school several years ago, I asked the English teacher if diagramming sentences was part of the skills set; she thought I was referring to the parts of speerch. I didn’t correct her.
benyagoda - September 8, 2011 at 11:26 am
Great story–inspirational, even.
fibra - September 10, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Great job of addressing cultural language variations!
butteredtoastcat - September 11, 2011 at 7:24 pm
The way you handled it was perfect. You took a smart ass kid’s desire to belittle Black English vernacular and turned it into a lesson on how structured Black English actually is. I’m guessing William Labov would approve. And how thigh-slappingly wonderful it is that Sarah Palin’s utterances lack as stable a structure.
jffoster - September 12, 2011 at 7:50 am
I’m not so sure he’d approve of the antiquated Kellog diagramming system. Real linguists found it severely wanting and abandoned it long long ago.
mrsb83 - September 12, 2011 at 9:41 am
Diagramming a sentence during contract negotiations helped my union-negotiator brother show that his interpretation of the contract language was correct. Apparently our teachers were correct, and we would use what we learned in the classroom later in life.
lamoglie - October 3, 2011 at 10:01 am
nah, it is not antiquated: it is a rather expedient system to visually reinforce the descriptions of Form and Function. Real Linguists know how to use the system. Unfortunately, Real Linguists are not usually teaching k-12.