OSU’s internal College of Engineering ranking system

Look what I found:
Innovation capacity metric = 40 x (number of BS degrees/average number of BS degrees for top25) + 10 x (number of MS degrees/average number of MS degrees for top 25) + 20x (PhD degrees/average number of PhD degrees for top 25) + 30 x (research expenditures/average research expenditures for top 25)
As was [...]

Completely coincidentally, filed under "things that caused me no end of angst as a teenager."

Richard Rorty, from Philosophy and Social Hope, page 19:
I take this near unanimity among my critics to show that most people – even a lot of purportedly liberated postmodernists – still hanker for something like what I wanted when I was 15: a way of holding reality and justice in a single vision
Oh, was that [...]

Thank you, Todd Simmons. My degree is now worth less for having read what you had to say.

While perusing the GT archives, I found this awesome story on how OSU ranks according to the US News and World Report. Check out this choice bit:
Over the years, Simmons said, OSU has remained steadily in the third tier, which he said is actually a testament to how hard the university has worked to [...]

Heh, I said ‘credibility gap’.

Reading the Gazette-Times the last few days, one particular statistic caught my eye.
From the story on the death of OSU alum and major donor Martin Kelley:
OSU has improved [its College of Engineering ranking] from being ranked in the 60s to the top 40.
From today’s Roses ‘n’ Raspberries, the same statistic:
Kelley’s generous gift already has helped [...]

Two Reflections

How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and to be loved. Let’s just hope that is enough.
- “Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved)”, Bright Eyes
Part One
I am approaching one year since I ended a six-year relationship. That event marked a clear break in my [...]

Remember this when he becomes McCain’s VP choice.

From (of all places) redstate.org:
Today, Gov. Jindal signed the “Sex Offender Chemical Castration Bill”…
SB 144 by Senators Nick Gautreaux, Amedee, Dorsey, Duplessis and Mount provides that on a first conviction of aggravated rape, forcible rape, second degree sexual battery, aggravated incest, molestation of a juvenile when the victim is under the age of 13, or [...]

Quoted from an email I just sent

“The definition of education has always been contested terrain. Education as prison, education as babysitting, education as job training…. education as liberatory, education as a privilege, education as a means to an active citizenry…. none of these has ever completely won; all have influenced education, including higher education, as a whole [and certainly the [...]

From the ‘WTF?’ files

The entirety of a comment left over at the GT:
bigmike45 wrote on Jun 24, 2008 8:18 AM:” Jerry:
Since I am a law abiding citizen I do have little to NOTHING to fear from FISA. If they want to search my house hopefully they send in the insomniac squad because they will be cured when they [...]

White and Nerdy

When I see this, why am I reminded of this?

Hacktackular Part Two

This time, hering’s editorial on DeFazio’s sponsorship of a new bill aimed at oil and gas companies gets a much closer examination.
Hering:
You can’t go wrong blaming the oil companies for the current troubles with fuel. Apparently that’s what Congressman Peter DeFazio figures.
Is that possibly because oil companies have something to do with it? Hering [...]

Hacktackular

Hering:
You can’t go wrong blaming the oil companies for the current troubles with fuel. Apparently that’s what Congressman Peter DeFazio figures.
He claims that the oil industry is hoarding untapped oil resources by not bringing millions of acres of federal oil and gas leases into production. To hammer home that point, he and other Democrats have [...]

Moody Memes

I’ll take that challenge…. but not that seriously, as you will see.
Your coma: Unplug, or keep on pluggin’? Surprisingly, I can’t decide.Superstition you can’t shake: I tend to touch a lot of doorways.Last person you yelled at: Ooh, that’s difficult. Probably my parents or brother.Duty at work you hate: Phone [...]

What’s in a Name?

A commenter at LT’s place (check the third comment) brings up the issue of how teachers and students address each other. Since I had a particular (peculiar?) stance on this when I was subbing, I wanted to lay it out.
First, I should say that I think it’s within a person’s rights to determine their [...]

…. f*ckin’ Obama….

From TPM, Obama’s words on the pathetic FISA bill that just passed Congress (for more background, start here):
“Given the grave threats that we face, our national security agencies must have the capability to gather intelligence and track down terrorists before they strike, while respecting the rule of law and the privacy and civil liberties of [...]

Random

Also, who posted all the opinion stuff to the DH website today? Whoever it is needs to go back and check the formatting. It’s all mucked up.