Spreadin’ Love 593

~ Laura

C. Wright Mills’ discussion of white collar workers still holds up today.

How much different countries save during Lent.

A professor at a local community college is suspended after he posted an Instagram picture of his daughter with a Game of Thrones t-shirt.

Why Every Member of Congress Gets a Monthly Porn Delivery

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  2. I hope the professor has spoken with a lawyer already. I’m more sympathetic to administrators than many people I know, but what an idiot the one in the article was. The “explanation” was particularly dumb. In a more reasonable world, the administrator would be the one facing a suspension in the near future.

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    1. The administration has a grudge against the professor (check Inside Higher Ed). This is just an excuse.

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      1. Well sure. But a really stupid excuse even as excuses go. I can’t imagine how they figured this would avoid rebounding poorly and publicly on them.

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      2. I think the administrators got exactly what they wanted. None of the administrators will lose their job or face suspension, but they were able to cause the professor huge amounts of stress and inconvenience. The bad publicity is just a minor blip for them.

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  4. From a quick perusal it seems that Italy appears to be the only country where giving up beer saves more money than giving up wine. Wine and beer appear to be about the same in the Philippines, France, and Portugal.

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  5. “It would be hard to accuse the colorful, open, dog-friendly campuses of Silicon Valley of the beehivelike sameness and drabness that characterized so many 1950s offices . . . .”

    A person has to be seriously lacking in cultural self-awareness to write that. I can’t imagine any place more filled with identically-dressed, identically-behaving clones than the modern, “business casual” office. Even the men and women look a lot more alike than they did in the 1950s. And if you think the people at the desks aren’t racially rather distinct from the people who clean the offices, change the light bulbs etc., you should ask some of the people in the latter group.

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  6. In other wrongful suspension news:

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-teacher-suspended-20140409,0,1851167.story#axzz2zTS1NJo8

    “A popular Los Angeles high school science teacher has been suspended after students turned in projects that appeared dangerous to administrators, spurring a campaign calling for his return to the classroom.”

    “One project used compressed air to propel a small object, but it was not connected to a source of air pressure, so it could not have been fired. (In 2012, President Obama tried out a more powerful air-pressure device at a White House Science Fair that could launch a marshmallow 175 feet.)
    Another project used the power from an AA battery to charge a tube surrounded by a coil. When the ninth-grader proposed it, Schiller told him to be more scientific, to construct and test different coils and to draw graphs and conduct additional analysis, said the student’s parents, who also are Los Angeles teachers.”

    ““As far as we can tell, he’s being punished for teaching science,” said Warren Fletcher, president of United Teachers Los Angeles.”

    Go get ’em, UTLA!

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