Dress Rehearsal for “My Son Pinocchio”

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RT @creedpatton: Academic IF resources?: the bible…

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An Adjunct’s Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in Academe

Because I blogged Kovalik’s editorial yesterday, it’s only fair that I also publicize an article that includes Duquesne’s side of the story. A university spokeswoman provided a statement in which Duquesne’s chaplain and director of campus ministry, the Rev. Daniel Walsh, says that Ms. Vojtko lived at the university’s Laval House, a building for undergraduates studying to…

RT @dancohen: I installed iOS 7 and suddenly I was…

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RT @Historiator: “The man who loved alien landscap…

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… but in real life, not every secret held by a p…

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Very true! If this were a TV show with a reporter…

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Death of an adjunct

Attention must be paid. Meanwhile, in the past year, her teaching load had been reduced by the university to one class a semester, which meant she was making well below $10,000 a year. With huge out-of-pocket bills from UPMC Mercy for her cancer treatment, Margaret Mary was left in abject penury. She could no longer…

@CordeliaLogan If he were real, and had been my co…

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I was briefly excited that Turnitin.com’s new app works in a park with no WiFi

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14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985

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Word to describe the sorry state of the MLA Job In…

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My son just scoffed at Kirk’s infamous “One to the…

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The “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me teach Shakespeare

Today the awkward but delightful “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful “Pyramus and Thisby” play after the main plot has resolved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. http://t.co/WSXD943LpG Similar:Woman Yelling at Cat About Academic Argument: an evidence-based defense of a non-obvious p…See: Academic Argument: Evidence-based D…AcademiaThe Search, Part 1 (#StarTrek…

Insipidest. Play. Ever. –Pepys, on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Sort of.

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Club Fair at @setonhill Griffins, get involved! (F…

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