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Discovery Channel

dis·cov·er·y
–noun, plural -er·ies.

the act or an instance of discovering.
something discovered.
Law. compulsory disclosure, as of facts or documents.
(initial capital letter, italics) U.S. Aerospace. the third space shuttle to orbit and return to earth.
a cable TV channel for white men.

I’ve been watching a lot of television lately. One of my favorite networks to watch […]

An unlucky year

The 2007 batch of first-year medical students at the University of Missouri-Columbia is the least racially diverse in recent history.
We are constantly concerned and aware if we don’t mirror the population of the state, and we just keep working at it,” William Crist, dean of the medical school, said. “Fortunately, in big systems we […]

Torii Mor Winery

The Torii Mor Winery is located in the hills outside of Dundee Oregon. The scenery is perfect, the wine is tasty, and the service is atrocious (translation: Torii Mor was More Terrible).
There were six of us who entered the tasting room at Torii Mor a couple weeks ago. Posted near the entrance was […]

NASPA + Abercrombie & Fitch

Update: NASPA seems to have received the message from its members that a partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch was a bad idea.
After the announcement last week about a partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch, we heard from a number of members who objected to NASPA partnering with this particular corporation. It’s important to know […]

Exclusion through language

A couple months ago Brownfemipower posted about the Inhofe Amendment. The amendment was contained within the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, S. 1348. (Note: S. 1639 has a similar English language amendment) This amendment would have amended title 4 of the United States Code to “declare English as the national language of the Government […]

Why I blog…

For the record, I believe that writing about white privilege and patriarchy is a positive thing to do. I feel very positive when I write about these particular barriers to social justice.
I feel that working towards the elimination of racism and sexism is a positive thing. It’s not an easy thing to do. It […]

Trojan Evolve

“8 per day…
4 for you.
4 for your partner.
40 each week.
Not enough? Maybe you should go to the library or I don’t know maybe you could study or even take a nap…”
This was part of my Wellness Center spiel during each first year student orientation at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Wellness Center […]

The right to bear arms

Horrible events have transpired today at Virginia Tech.
Why in the hell is it necessary that we have the “right” to bear arms? Hunting? Self-defense? Why do we need to have guns? I mean this is just crazy. The University of Utah cannot even legally bar guns on their campus.
Why are handguns […]

Inner monologuing with Adam

My current plate of consulting activities is currently full of heaping portions of projects. Thus the rationale for my recent spurt of blog posts. If I can get a lot of posts up in a short period of time then I may have more time to be productive. I could always go on another […]

Blackboard Community System

Blackboard had an amazing booth at the NASPA/ACPA Joint Meeting in Orlando. It was the size of small house and it looked like one too! Inside their mini-mansion, the folks from Blackboard were demoing their portal solution, the Blackboard Community System.

My first question to the Blackboard representative, upon seeing that the demo utilized frames, […]