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Not an ideological question

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.
“It’s not an ideological question — the fact is that once again we find that most of the poor who […]

Chris Rock from The Black List

“Chris Rock: In my neighborhood there’s like three, four black people in my neighborhood in Alpine. OK, it’s, me, Gary Sheffield, Mary J. Blige, Patrick Ewing. Hall of famer, hall of famer, greatest R&B singer of our time, decent comedian. Who lives next to me, what’s the white man next to me? He’s a […]

So say we all

At one point the discussion lit a fire under the Admiral, and the talk of human rights turned personal for Edward James Olmos. The “Old Man” launched into a passionate speech about casting off the idea of race as a cultural determinant, and said we were one race, the human race. His voice echoed […]

Kite flying in the Quad

Experimenting with a Canon HF10… I was in a meeting when we noticed this guy flying a kite on Friday afternoon in the Memorial Union Quad at Oregon State University. I had been demoing the video camera and editing video for most of the day. I ran outside and shot this clip. I imported […]

Survs - Epic Online Surveys

I was perusing the interwebs the other day, prior to the QuestionPro account termination debacle, when I came upon a blog post that linked to Survs.com.
I had never heard of Survs before and thought that it was worth looking at for an online survey solution:
Survs is a collaborative tool that allows you to build, […]

QuestionPro - failing epicly

QuestionPro used to be my favorite online survey tool:
I just wanted to contact QuestionPro and let you all know that your product is terrific. As a full time graduate student at Oregon State University, I have used QP to create and deliver 2 surveys with functionality that other free services could not provide.
Eric Stoller
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Higher Education Administration Q’s/A’s

Lately, I have received several emails asking me about my experiences as a higher education administrator and regarding my experiences as someone who has graduated from a college student services administration graduate program. I decided to attempt to answer all of them in a giant college student services / higher education administrator, question/answer blog […]

Jon Stewart - real news

Jon Stewart’s interview of CNBC’s Jim Cramer isn’t what I would call comedy. Stewart’s show may run on Comedy Central, but this interview really picks apart CNBC and Jim Cramer. I noticed that some of the “real news” networks ran stories about this interview. The sad part was they didn’t look in a journalistic […]

NACADA Technology Seminar Web Stats

Note the slight increase in traffic to http://nacadatech.net during the NACADA Technology Seminar! It will be interesting to see if the NACADA Tech site continues to be the central hub for future NACADA technology + academic advising events. We certainly showed that a WordPress blog with Twitter + Flickr + Wikis + RSS is […]

White History Year Resumes

Sad satirical truths courtesy of the Onion:
WASHINGTON, DC—With Black History Month over, U.S. citizens are putting aside thoughts of Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver to resume the traditional observation of White History Year.
White History Year, which runs annually from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, with a 28-day break for Black History Month in […]