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Evaluating How Tenure Is Given

November 5th, 2009
By Rachel Rabinowitz
Imagine teaching English as an adjunct professor for five years, working towards becoming a tenured professor. When your time comes consideration, you wait anxiously to see if you are finally to be chosen for tenure … and get passed right on by. You may believe it will be just one more year of waiting, but the truth is, this guaranteed job may never come. Unfortunately, this is an increasingly common occurrence throughout campuses across the nation. Read More

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This Blog Has Been Brought to You by the Letter “B”

November 4th, 2009
By Samantha Hartzband
2009 is a big year for Jim Henson and Sesame Workshop’s “Sesame Street” program. On Wednesday, November 4, the series celebrated its 40th Anniversary, and on Tuesday, November 10, the show will premiere its 40th season. Read More

Vampire Mediocrity: Now with character development!

November 4th, 2009
By Rabia Muqaddam
Good Lord! Is it that time already? What? You say it is Wednesday? Which Wednesday I might ask? Instead, perhaps I won’t .... Halloween returned this past weekend to tempt us Cornellians with the Devil’s ways (unstable table dancing, pumpkin beer, hot Ghostbusters and that sandwich at CTB with all the bacon that shall not be mentioned. I ate one today!!). Oh yeah. The lovely and inscrutable (joke!) Vampire Diaries returned as well to mystify our brains and seduce our silly bleeding Americampy hearts. Read More

California Cuisine Part 1

November 3rd, 2009
By Eric Pearson
My last post was a stop on the way to California over fall break. This time, I will be discussing some good cheap eats I had around LA and next time will be the fancy ones. Some of the places I ate at were a random Mexican stand at a street fair outside a Children of Bodom concert I went to, Chano’s, fig tree, Panini Café, Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles, and the famed In-N-Out Burger. Read More