Things students said, and asked today. Things I thought.

We are no longer a university, we are a corporation. Evidence is in every detail: the bus no longer takes standing passengers; it is now forbidden to write in chalk on the sidewalk. The university will close in 15-20 years, based on the current rate of non-replacement of FTEs. Before the advent of e-mail, how … More Things students said, and asked today. Things I thought.

It’s so Spanish…

Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.

En ville

Hattie says the problem with academic advice is the either/or thinking. This is a very good analysis. Just because I am delivering the final blows to my enemy, academic anti-advice, don’t think I am not on vacation — I am. Now, I am on the back patio of this precise building. Can you place it? … More En ville