Dress rehearsal of The Nutcracker

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Fall 2017 Grades Submitted. No professional tasks until Tuesday. Bliss!

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First page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.)

This clever freshman writing student created a project in Texture, which is designed for branching narratives (such as the Choose Your Own Adventure stories). In the next few screens, he put up nodes showing older and more recent writing samples, asked me to choose which one showed the better writing technique, and gave me feedback…

At the chess club holiday party.

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I haven’t taught a developmental course at SHU, but when I teach freshman writing, I often encounter students who struggle with the transition from high school to college writing. Those who were praised all their lives as good writers can tell good personal stories, and they can deploy accurate summaries of non-controversial, “correct” facts. I give…

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PR Pop Quiz: Intro to Crisis Management

Pop quiz for public relations 101. Scenario 1: You run a wildly popular app that incorporates video with a live host. You learn that a reporter is writing a personality profile of your host. Do you offer some cheerful quotes and then make a note to get your host to sign a new contract that handles…

Carolyn and Alex in “The King and I”

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I rather like my camera. Bought a new zoom lens a few months ago.

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Friend I hadn’t seen for about 20 years delivers a vintage nerdy gift.

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Local news is the building block of a national democracy.

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The Girl at rehearsal (where else?).

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Alex and Carolyn rehearse for “The King and I” Saturday night

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Shall we dance? The girl tries on her ball gown for The King and I. Her featured show is this Saturday.

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A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.

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Fallout Monopoly with the boy.

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Did you share Russian fake news? Facebook, apparently unable to insert items directly in our feeds, will make you jump through hoops to find out.

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Controlling behavior of HQ CEO hijacks what should have been a puff piece about popular HQ host Scott Rogowsky

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