A colleague bakes Irish soda bread to share on the Humanities floor every St Patrick’s Day

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When you need to record footsteps on a sidewalk, and the carpeted studio has a brick wall.

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Rubric for the Rubric Concerning Students’ Core Educational Competency In Reading Things In Books and Writing About Them.

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Simon Newman Resigns as President of Mount St. Mary’s

Simon P. Newman resigned on Monday evening as president of Mount St. Mary’s University, capping a weeks-long furor over a controversial freshman-retention plan that focused national attention on the Roman Catholic college in rural Maryland. Mr. Newman, a former private-equity chief executive, incited a backlash by using a clumsy “drown the bunnies” analogy in reference…

Your Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years Of Guilt

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Mizzou professor who pushed reporter away from protesters is fired

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