Youth Can Check Out Briefcases, Neckties via NYPL Grow Up Work Accessories
The New York Public Library has a program that lets youths check out briefcases, handbags, and neckties for job interviews or other formal occasions.
I watched E-mails glitter in the dark…
Transcript: Me: (Starts writing a routine email for textbook adoption committee.) Me: (Accidentally paraphrases part of Roy Batty’s “Tears in rain” monologue.) Me: (Checks IMDB to refresh my memory of the full quote.) Me: (Checks Blade Runner Wiki to confirm umlaut in Tannhäuser Gate.) Me: (Looks up Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser.) Me: What, what was…
Newspaper For Sale: The Growing Threat of News Deserts in Western Pennsylvania
As circulation has declined, local newspapers have had to adjust for the loss in revenue, sometimes by shrinking the size of their staffs, sometimes by selling out or closing up shop all together.Â
The Decline of Humanities Enrollments and the Decline of Pre-Law
It’s a myth that humanities majors don’t care about post-graduation employment. What changed was the safety valve of subsequent law school enrollment.
Law school was long the default post-graduation plan for majors in qualitative fields. As long as you had the prospect of a lucrative legal career after college, you could safely major in English or poli sci. Those students didn’t ignore the vocational imperative; they just postponed it. And for a long time, that worked pretty well.
But the Great Recession, combined with AI and offshoring, did a number on law as a career option.
I had a grand time recording this little story about a misunderstood genius who just wants to build a wall. #amontillado #masonry #poe
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How Trump Is Making Journalism School Great Again
This is an important time to teach people what journalists do and why it matters. “The media” is much larger than “journalists devoted to the objective coverage of the news.” If you don’t like the slant, or the shallowness, or the opportunism of the media you run across, then check out several different sources, including…
Top U800. #chesstournament
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Chess tournament in Monroeville.
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Under my academic robes… photographer vest with 3 frozen ice packs. #heatwave #HonorsConvo @setonhilluniversity
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Poetry Writing: 10 Tips for Writing Poems
If you are writing a poem because you want to capture a feeling that you experienced, then you don’t need these tips. Just write whatever feels right. Only you experienced the feeling that you want to express, so only you will know whether your poem succeeds. If, however, your goal is to communicate with a reader — drawing…
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Beautiful News Writing: “Rampaging rooster attacks girl.”
I don’t want to make light of a little girl’s fear, but she wasn’t seriously hurt, and this is a damn fine lead: When they heard the screams, no one suspected the rooster. (Tampa Bay Times, 2002) And from a little farther into the story: The rooster struck around noon as Dechardonae ventured from her…
Hi, I’m the St Joe’s basement doorstop. Let me start your three-day weekend by wrapping my chain around your ankle, tossing you into the mud, and breaking your phone.
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What Do Happy Teens Do? Hint: It doesn’t involve their phones.
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Anonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week.
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Full Bloom opens tonight.
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Social Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative. They’re capitalist.
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The other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myself.)
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