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My Year in Cities, 2007

I visited and/or lived in the following cities in 2007*:
Cannon Beach, OR
Ashland, OR
Portland, OR
Corvallis, OR (Home)
Newport, OR
Orlando, FL
Warwick, RI
Columbus Junction, IA
Washington, DC
*one or more nights were spent in each place

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Sunday links

College of William and Mary replaces logo to shed Indian feathers
Undocumented students in U.S. could pay in-state tuition
Oregon Panel Explores In-state Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants
Northeastern State University revises graduation policy and allows Native American students to wear items such as feathers, beads, medallions, stoles, or other relevant tribal insignia during NSU commencement ceremonies.
N.C. Community Colleges […]

OSU Drag Show

Sometimes there are moments at OSU that are so amazing that they give you chills to your fingertips. The recent OSU Drag Show took place in a massive tent structure in front of the Memorial Union. (The tent was part of the kickoff event for the OSU Capital Campaign and the coordinators/participants for the […]

Improper procurement

It always saddens me when I read a news report that focuses the lead paragraph on the public relations aspects of something awful instead of talking about the survival and recovery of those who have been victimized.
And seriously, WTF, when is it ever “proper” to “procure women”? What a mess.

The University of Colorado on […]

W & E

Tag: photographs

Pink and Sexism

The visiting team locker room at the University of Iowa is painted pink. Hayden Fry, the oft-revered Hawkeye football coach, had the locker room painted pink as a “psychological strategy.” A former University of Iowa law professor plans on filing a complaint under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
“I don’t think this […]

MIT Admissions Blog

I’m currently subscribed to 104 RSS feeds. My bloglines is sometimes a bit overwhelming as I peruse content from around the blogosphere. One of the blogs that I always read, no matter how busy I am, is the MIT Admissions Blog(s). The site is written by several MIT students and staffers. I love the breadth […]

Va. Tech, Evil and Forgiveness

Two Penn State students dressed for Halloween as Virginia Tech shooting victims. The following is a letter to the editor of the Daily Collegian by a friend and student affairs colleague.
Waking up the morning of Friday, December 07, 2007 - the anniversary of bombings at Pearl Harbor - I read the Collegian […]

MediaTemple’s apology

MediaTemple is my web host. Recently, they have had a lot of technical difficulties with their Grid-Service that resulted in unscheduled downtime and blogosphere frustration. The problem was caused by a hardware malfunction. MediaTemple, a company that is highly aware of the competitive nature of the web hosting world, decided to give their Grid-Service […]

Borrowing designs = confirmed

The OSU College of Engineering website design was “borrowed” from the Virginia Tech homepage. I received confirmation from a reliable source that the OSU COE site was designed by a student designer who used the VT site for design inspiration. Apparently, VT was made aware of the COE site design and was “not happy” […]