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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
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The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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corvus_caurinus
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 05:39:02 PM » |
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1) This probably includes getting caught with a joint (or even a can of beer if under 21). 2) What fraction of college students in general have been charged? Are football players worse than the rest of the male student population? Are they worse than the nationwide average male of the same age? Worse than the average male of the same age and SES? Without answers to these questions, 7% is a pretty meaningless figure. |
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yellowtractor
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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 06:18:34 PM » |
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I think we need more comparative data. I mean, what percentage of tenured Latinists have criminal records?
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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prytania3
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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 06:37:45 PM » |
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Oh please. You look at a cop wrong, you get a criminal record. Big deal.
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Clowns, I tell you. Clowns.
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2011, 06:48:00 PM » |
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Our local police recently arrested a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old because he gave them the finger.
I was fairly surprised that two of our Police officers got out of their car for anything other than a pastry.
The charge is not expected to stick.
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"Double standards are the warning signals of a free society." - Timothy Garton Ash
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2011, 06:56:06 PM » |
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After I looked at the source article, i made a comment about how the CHE is putting up articles that seem designed to generate click traffic rather than discourse. With that in mind, I came over to the forum section with the idea of raising the question of whether CHE comment sections are simply intended for generating emotional reactions or for stimulating some form of thoughtful (or at least semi-thoughtful discussion - or even wry commentary). And there it was the fiona's new thread - sort of an answer to my question - leaning toward the wry commentary. A quick glance at the Fiona's profile was impressive - showing posts as (5.737 per day) until I realized it was a period and not a comma between the 5 and 7. Still, somewhat daunted, I have decided to retreat back into the outer darkness where I often lurk in silence.
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2011, 07:36:21 PM » |
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7%! The faculty at my school has that beat.
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2011, 07:58:18 PM » |
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7%! The faculty at my school has that beat.
You teach at Wharton? |
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2011, 08:13:18 PM » |
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Oh please. You look at a cop wrong, you get a criminal record. Big deal.
50% of accountants on this thread have a criminal record... |
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2011, 08:15:52 PM » |
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Our local police recently arrested a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old because he gave them the finger.
I was fairly surprised that two of our Police officers got out of their car for anything other than a pastry.
The charge is not expected to stick.
Free speech...? Wonder if the cop's ever heard of that... If those idiots who picket military funerals get the free speech excuse for spewing that hate, then this teen ought to be able to flip the finger anytime, anywhere. |
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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torshi
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2011, 08:32:03 PM » |
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Don't let anything stand in the way of a good story. Jeff Benedict is a muckraking sports journalist (and English professor) who either doesn't understand numbers or prefers to use misleading numbers to advance his cause of getting people upset about college athletes. The Chronicle gives him legitimacy, either because their editors don't understand the issues or, more cynically, because they don't care and only want the traffic, as an earlier poster remarks. In an earlier manufactured-crisis report, commenters quickly corrected Benedict's math, but as is Chronicle practice, this result (facts are opposite to his claims) won't prevent the Chronicle from promoting him, and is not corrected when the article is released to periodical indexes (Chronicle does not include comments in those or, usually, correct inaccuracies). I have used these articles in class to illustrate common, easily preventable errors resulting from failure to think. Students' faith in news media is so low that my doing that probably has little effect in that direction, but I wish that this publication were not a source of such good examples. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2011, 09:07:10 PM » |
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Big deal. I'd wager that significantly more than 7% of my students have a criminal record if you include minor in possession charges and whatnot. We want to make criminals out of everyone and wonder why we don't have money for heath care and education. Go figure.
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prytania3
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« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2011, 12:37:36 AM » |
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Someone really needs to define criminal record.
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Clowns, I tell you. Clowns.
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« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2011, 08:45:49 AM » |
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Students involved with theater, music, computers and other cerebral activities simply don't get into trouble as much as those students who are barely passing basket weaving. When you read the local news reports of student arrests, you almost never see anyone from sports like golf, swimming, cross country or volleyball. This is only what is publicly reported. Many cases of assault do not result in arrest and are swept under the carpet.
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« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2011, 09:35:53 AM » |
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Big deal. I'd wager that significantly more than 7% of my students have a criminal record... That's exactly what I was thinking too. |
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