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Administrating « Confused at a higher level "Why did I say yes to the Dean when he asked whether I would take on this position? He made the request/offer to me a week after calling me to let me know I had tenure -- he claimed that this gave me a fair shot at saying no." (tags: academia society…
How to get a college roommate you can live with First and foremost, don't be a jerk yourself. (tags: academia education social-science psychology news) Want to Lower the Drinking Age? Hope You Like Spam :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs MADD-- all class,…
Steven Chu Addresses the National Labs | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine "The new Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, addressed the national labs in an all-hands video transmission today. I was not there, but my colleague and friend Rob Roser at Fermilab was there, and sent me a very nice…
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect It's possible there are other solutions than EFCA. But it needs to be solved, one way or the other. EFCA has its problems, but pretending that it's somehow a perversion of workplace democracy as compared to a world in which 25 percent of organizing…

I'd just like to know the story behind that circa 1930 picture from Getty Images. Searching the Getty Images archive says it was taken on 30 Dec 1930 during a Christmas Tyndall Lecture, but why is the guy in blackface? Those were the days....

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