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Archive for December, 2012
Stalwart
Saturday, December 29th, 2012I’m amazed at my students whose lives and families and homes took major hits from Hurricane Sandy (and lest I forget the economic failures also stalking their lives and their families and neighbors) but who, nevertheless, pulled their own weight, didn’t whine or moan, were stalwart and made contributions to their communities and to others and showed compassion.
Truly amazed.
Instructors should never underestimate their students … but it happens.
Hunter Public Safety Up to Its Old Yes-No Tricks
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
Hunter Campus Safety Officer telling student early in the start of the fall semester that he can’t videotape on school property.
Should the Princeton Review be alerting prospective film, art and journalism students that Hunter students are subject to harassment if they try to take pictures and video on campus?
Boycotting the Aronson Awards: The Plot Thickens
Tuesday, December 25th, 2012Final Grades: It’s That Time of Year Again
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012Comments below are from an email from a student for whom I’ve filed a complaint with the Faculty-Student Disciplinary Board for suspected cheating. I filed a second complaint with the College Behavioral Response Team for shouting and cursing and demanding, in an abusive manner, for an A in a class where the student seemed to be doing passing work.
The student believe that being abusive would improve chances for an A in the course. The student’s sophistry (revealed in comments) is not unusual nor was the student’s irrational behavior. Years ago, I developed a protocol for dealing with students who cheated because of Colleagues who inspired and supported students to cheat. More about this later.
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White House Blog: Thursday, December 20
Friday, December 21st, 2012The House Republicans’ Spending Reduction Act of 2012 Will Hurt Middle Class Families
The House Republicans introduced a bill last night, The Spending Reduction Act of 2012, that would negatively impact the American people in several ways.
I’ve been spending so much time “studying” facebook that I’ve neglected this blog. That’s all about to change even though the first few steps can be measured in picas.
I might go to the inauguration in January.
Boycotting the Aronson Awards – D:F/M Colleagues Seeking Surcease for Peter Parisi’s Faux Pas
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
![Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]](https://blog.hunterword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peewee-parisi-21-187x200.jpg)
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
Boycotting the Aronson Awards – Sending Peter Parisi a Message
Monday, December 10th, 2012Should journalism professors who support news censorship be publicly pilloried?
Stories are in the works.
Peter Parisi
Boycotting the Aronson Awards – First of Several Posts
Sunday, December 9th, 2012Colleague Peter Paris, chief chaperone for the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, said at a faculty meeting of not long ago that he supported news censorship and that he supported censorship of the WORD. James Arson must be turning over in his grave because of the hypocritical nature of someone who has been passing himself off as a supporter of high journalistic principles.
Thus, a boycott is in the works. I plan to tell all my students: Boycott. Boycott Boycott.
More later.
Peter Parisi Says He Believes in News Censhorship
The Central Park 5
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012This picture of Yusef Salaam is one of the most haunting pictures of the century.
Everyone should see this Ken Burns documentary at least once on the big screen. Then a few times on the screens at home. And recommend to families and friends and neighbors.
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