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Academic Advising

My brain feels like the egg in that frying pan…it’s a bit cooked. I will have had over 60 appointments this week. Faces and names have blurred together into something that looks like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Frequent topics of discussion this week include: “fun” classes, study abroad, dual-enrollment, graduation, financial aid, class standing, course […]

Suzanne Pharr

I was introduced to Suzanne Pharr via a reading assignment while in the class, Ethics of Diversity at Oregon State University in 2006. We were assigned to read “The Common Elements of Oppressions” — a chapter in Pharr’s book, Hetersexism: A weapon of homophobia. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the chapter and hoped to put […]

Technology and Student Affairs

iStudentAffairs.com: A social networking site for Student Affairs administrators. 661 people have already signed up. The site runs off of Ning. I’m not sure if I have the life space for another website, but the discussions on iStudentAffairs.com have been interesting.
Technology panel: I’ll be on a panel for Academic Advising + Web 2.0 at […]

Stuff White People Like

This site brings the funny! Recent topics on Stuff White People Like:

#73 Gentrification
#72 Study Abroad
#71 Being the only white person around
#70 Difficult Breakups
#69 Mos Def
#68 Michel Gondry
#67 Standing Still at Concerts
#66 Divorce
#65 Co-Ed Sports
#64 Recycling
#63 Expensive Sandwiches
#62 Knowing what’s best for poor people
#61 Bicycles
#60 Toyota Prius
#59 Natural Medicine

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A letter to Ikea

Dear Ikea,
Many years ago, in 2001, I purchased two beech-colored items of furniture. The items, a bookcase and a CD tower, were bathed in a lovely golden brown veneer. Recently, Wendy and I decided to embark on a trip to the new Ikea in Portland, Oregon. We decided that we would like to procure […]

Wells Fargo Financial redux

My post regarding Wells Fargo Financial’s “stone tablet and chisel” online bill pay technology was picked up by the Consumerist. Several commenters mentioned that they had encountered the same issues as I had when trying to log into their Wells Fargo Financial account. Many commenters suggested using various techniques to spoof the Wells Fargo […]

Northern Illinois University

There has been a campus shooting at Northern Illinois University (NIU).
NIU can confirm six fatalities, including the gunman. Four of the dead were female and two, including the gunman, were male. In total, there were 22 injured or killed.
NIU can confirm that the shooter was an NIU graduate student in sociology in the Spring […]

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky has hired its first diversity officer!
Dr. Judy ‘J.J.’ Jackson, set to become the University of Kentucky’s first vice president for institutional diversity, has big plans for developing and implementing a diversity agenda that she says is essential for learning.
Jackson, who starts this summer, will work strategically to craft UK’s diversity […]

Recipe - Polenta chili

Polenta Chili:
makes 4 servings
Polenta Chili Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 shallot, chopped
2 to 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 to 4 teaspoons fresh oregano, minced
2 cups vegetable broth
1 (16 ounce) can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, juices included
3 […]

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island is located in Kingston, Rhode Island. I created the following panoramic image on a very cold day on the URI campus. I was standing in the middle of the quad on a slightly raised surface therefore the pano has a bit of an arc. The original image is 16,000 […]