May 2012
61 posts
For those of you who don’t know, there are major student protests going on in Quebec right now against a proposed university tuition hike. This article comes from a website called “Quebec Protest.” If you’ve never lived in La Belle Province, that means the information in the article has a major liberal bias. BUT. BUT BUT BUT. I went to McGill, which I would say is very much a research university, and I remember feeling overwhelmed, alone, and stuck in a nightmare of red tape. Once you get past that, you do get a good education, but I had to teach myself quite a lot of the skills I learned there.
I’m not posting this because I think it’s automatically applicable to all schools in the U.S., although I would support tuition freezes at public universities here. If you had asked me, as an undergraduate (when students were also pretty upset about their provincial tuition rates), I would have rolled my eyes - as an international student, I was paying 4-5 times as much in tuition as they were. But now that I’m super old and wise, I absolutely support students’ right to protest (peacefully) against tuition hikes. Tuition hikes perpetuate a system that allows rich people to achieve higher education and better jobs at the expense of people who are just as qualified but weren’t handed everything on a silver platter. It’s unfair and in the end it hurts the whole society, because its populace is undereducated and therefore ill-equipped to deal with challenges in any situation.
In case any Texans are interested, the Texas Tribune has a list of tuition rates at public universities in Texas, and Unfair Park has a slightly more in-depth look at tuition at the University of Texas at Dallas as an offshoot of that Texas Tribune article.
Yes!!! A guide to proper use of commas! I love this.
Love love love all these photos of Marrakech.
Judge Hughes: There was a little road that turned off to the right. There were some police officers stationed there. I had seen them and they knew me. Campaigning with police officers is always something you must do because you know they’ve got a vote.
So I knew who they were. I told them what I wanted and one of them who was on the motorcycle went out to the plane to check and then led me in in the car. I met—as I got out of the car-
Interviewer: You drove right up to the ramp?
Hughes: Close to it, yes. As I got out Chief [Jesse] Curry was there (he’s the chief of police) and he said “Mr. Sanders wants you to call him.” Well, I knew that Barefoot had the oath by then, but I said “Well, I know what the oath is.” So in place of calling him I went on up the ramp.
And somebody, I don’t know who it was, met me and I then said “I don’t need the oath of office; I know what to say.” But in just a moment somebody handed me a copy of the oath. I understand that someone had telephoned to the Attorney General and had gotten a copy of the oath.
I wasn’t told that but anyway I was handed it.
Interviewer: Barefoot didn’t dictate it to someone.
Hughes: No, he didn’t dictate it. And then somebody handed me a book and said “This is a Catholic Bible.” I walked on into the second compartment and there were a lot of people there; the Vice-President and Mrs. Johnson were there and neither—none of us said anything.
I embraced both of them and then the Vice-President said, “Mrs. Kennedy wants to be here. We’ll wait for her.”
Interviewer: She hadn’t come from the hospital?
Hughes: She had come from the hospital and was in the rear of the airplane. So we waited a few minutes and she did come out and he, Vice-President Johnson, told her to stand on his left and Mrs. Johnson on his right. And I leaned over to her and said “I loved your husband very much.”
Mr. Johnson turned to her and told her who I was; that I was a district judge who had been appointed by her husband. Then I repeated the oath of office and the Vice-President repeated it after me, he had his hand up—one hand up, and the other on this book.
” —Wow.
Transcript, Sarah T. Hughes Oral History Interview I, 10/7/68, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Library. (via lbjlibrary)
1. Because I really needed a huge buzzkill today.
2. I used to be ALL ABOUT capitalizing everything in the title, but now that I’ve been in the UK for a while, it just felt so unnecessary to capitalize ALL the words after ‘Why’.
Wise words for 2012 graduates from Forbes staff. I like this one because it’s something I remind myself pretty frequently.
I just turned in my last essay of this degree. Now I am sitting on my bed, totally zonked, listening to the wind try to break my window down. Yeah buddy!!!!
1. Nacreous Clouds
2. Mammatus Clouds
3. Altocumulus Castelanus
4. Noctilucent Clouds
5. Mushroom Clouds
6. Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz
7. Lenticular Clouds
8. Roll Clouds
9. Shelf Clouds
10. Stratocumulus Clouds
so in conclusion, clouds are pretty cool huh
This about sums up my entire life: “Take Texas women for example. They tend to stifle their twang to avoid sounding uneducated. But they can use their accent to their advantage in business interactions when they want to exude an air of Southern hospitality, Hinrichs said.”
Uhhh, without getting super specific, I’m looking at my absentee ballot for the Texas Republican primary, along with that awesome League of Women Voters questionnaire for the candidates, and my bleeding-heart liberal self doesn’t even know where to start.
Seriously, though.
