I'm finally finished with last semester.

feel like i should celebrate. Anybody doing anything interesting tonight?



Phoebe asks (in relation to yesterday's YDN orgy of postmodern racial difference/class anxiety) "What am I being taught by this university."

Josh makes good points as well:

Yale undergraduates appalled at the lack of respect paid them by lack of deference and weak labor ethic of the working class New Haveners their school pays them to oversee preparing food for Yalies. And wishing that Yale were as effective as McDonalds at quelling worker militancy and squeezing more productivity out of the help.

No workers are interviewed for this article except to inform on other workers, no students are interviewed who don't work in the dining halls, and no union representative has the chance to explain their policy or their struggle, or to contest the underlying current of this piece: that the people who prepare and serve your food are dangerous invaders in the ivory tower.

Evan Cobb takes an incisive look at why Salovey should NOT be the next Dean of yale college:

If by crown jewel they mean "forefront of eroding mentorship and academic freedom in the liberal-arts education" then right on, Mr. Professor. The policies carried out in the Graduate School by then-Dean now-Provost Hockfield, and by Dean Salovey, have gutted this part of the university, and now we can expect the same sorts of ramrod policy shifts to be deployed in Yale College, too -- though anyone who watched the faculty's vote to change the language requirement and adopt the recommendations of the CYCE knows that this was of course the approach championed by good old Dean Brodhead.
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