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Welcome to the Grapevine
The Grapevine is administered by the UAF Marketing and Communications Department and was designed to dispel rumors, clarify misconceptions and clear up misunderstandings about UAF topics of a general nature to improve communication between the administration and the UAF community.
Many times departments are able to quickly resolve an issue and we post the solution to the problem here as well. Thank you for your suggestions.Ā
As always, building and facilities issues that need attention should be forwarded to firstname.lastname@example.com or reported directly to 474-7000. Unsafe conditions should be reported to Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management here.
Oct. 23, 2014 - Streaming Video Etiquette at Work
What's the streaming video etiquette at work? I recently went to the library where the person at the reference desk interrupted her Netflix stream just long enough to talk to me. Later that day I talked to a different person at the checkout desk about streaming video and was told that it's commonplace for employees at the library to stream video throughout the day to help pass the time. I personally don't really care about it one way or another, but maybe it would be appropriate to not allow streaming for patron-facing positions?
From Bella Karr Gerlich, Dean of Libraries
Thank you for your question about service etiquette in the library. This behavior is not acceptable in any library on campus and I offer my apology for the poor service you received. I have met with the key staff in the library to review our policies and make sure that this will not happen again.
Oct. 17, 2014 - Recycling Bins on Campus
I was on the 5th and 6th floor of the Gruening building yesterday and at both elevator lobbies I noticed a lot of "Sustainability" containers overflowing and with various junk laying on the floors around them. I called the number listed on the containers (474-6037) for pickup and the number is not in service.
Do these containers get checked on specified days by anyone? I do feel strongly about being sustainable, but all of the ugly containers and garbage lying around is an awful eyesore to our campus.
From Christi Kemper, Office of Sustainability Administrative Assistant
The aluminum, glass and plastic recycling pickups on campus are done by a team of two to three student employees. The routes change each semester as student schedules change. This semester pickups in the Gruening building normally happen on Tuesdays.
Occasionally a recycling employee misses work and it takes a little longer for all of the pickups on campus to be completed. More often, individuals bring personal recycling from home and place it on top of or inside bins, immediately filling them. When this happens we will not know it is full until the next regular pickup day unless we are called or e-mailed about it. This is why we ask that everyone drop off the recycling they collect at home to be dropped off at the community drop-off site in the Taku parking lot.
Thank you for letting us know about the mislabeled bins - we have been working on relabeling all of the bins with a new phone number. We will have the Gruening bins relabeled as soon as possible.
Oct. 16, 2014 -- President Gamble's concern for students
"University of Alaska considering tobacco ban on its campuses" was an article in last Friday's Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. In that article it stated, "Aside from a push by some students to curb public tobacco use, there are growing fiscal considerations as the UA budget tightens, Gamble said." and then went on to quote President Gamble, "The students definitely took the lead, but now there's coming to be a business case to be made in this."
Reading these quotes from President Gamble, I get the distinct impression that he isn't interested in what the students want, only what will help the "business" or "bottom line" of the University. I am appalled and sorely disappointed that our own UA President is more concerned about money than the needs (and yes, wants) of the students. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
From Kate Ripley, UA Public Affairs
President Gamble is concerned about students, and interested in what they want and believe they have a right to, in terms of a healthy learning environment. He was simply also making the case that studies show employees who smoke cost more for health care services, lost time on the job, etc., than employees who don't. That point doesn't diminish the fact that students are, and will remain, a priority at the university.
Oct. 14, 2014 -- Lack of annual performance reviews
In response to the answer regarding step increases based on performance dated Oct. 9, what do you do when your supervisor does not give annual performance reviews?
It's frustrating when your supervisor cares so little that he/she will not take the time to do an annual performance review even after the employee has repeatedly requested one. Annual reviews provide documentation performance, list specific areas for improvement and can provide comparisons to prior evaluations, which are beneficial when employees apply for other internal jobs or ask for wage increases.
From Brad Lobland, Director and Campus Ethics Officer of the Office of Human Resources
If a supervisor is unwilling to give an employee their performance evaluation, the employee should speak with their supervisor's supervisor or their assigned HR consultant to help ensure BOR policy and the chancellor's expectations of supervisors are being met.
Oct. 14, 2014 -- Bookstore retail pricing
I find the bookstore very frustrating. I can't speak to the textbook side of things, but the retail side is a bit ridiculous. $98 for a children's sized hockey jersey and empty shelves in the snack area seem to clearly illustrate that they only want our money, not to consistently provide items that people want. One of the few bright points in their retail area is the friendly and helpful customer service. I hope Follett is providing really good textbook service to our students otherwise I would be questioning why we continue to do business with them.
From Pamm Zierfuss-Hubbard, Contracts Manager of Auxiliary, Recharge and Contract Operations
Retail pricing for items in the Bookstore are set by the company who provides the item. In the case of the hockey jerseys you mentioned, because they are authentic, they tend to cost more. Follett has been working to obtain less expensive replica youth jerseys and while that may take time, other child/youth items are available as well. In particular, there are multiple t-shirts and sweatshirts that are hockey related that are less expensive.
In regards to the snack food area, Follett has been working diligently to not only stock items customers want but also provide a variety of items. Some of these items are obtained locally while others are from vendors outside Alaska. The outside vendors have been problematic as of late (late shipments, canceling items, etc.) so Follett has switched to automated shipments will enable the store to be better stocked in the future.
If you have suggestions on items you would like to see stocked in the Bookstore, please feel free to ask to speak with the store manager next time you shop there.
Oct. 14, 2014 -- Plan for the Lola Tilly
What is the plan for the Lola Tilly? It seems like it would be the perfect place to create a one-stop "shopping" experience for student services. There are a lot of rumors going around but none of them seem to be particularly geared towards serving students more efficiently.
From Scott Bell, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services
Due to budget constraints our options for reusing Lola Tilly are very limited. Converting the building into a one-stop registration/book store facility was evaluated in 2012 at a cost of at least $6M. UAF cannot afford that investment at this time. Our current plan is to convert the dining area into office space to meet temporary needs for office space. This will cost much less and does not preclude future conversion to another use when funds are available.
Oct. 9, 2014 - Faculty and Staff Not Receiving Step Increases
In yesterday's response to a Grapevine question Brad Lobland said: Faculty and non-executive staff receive cost-of-living increases as negotiated in the collective bargaining agreements each year, plus most also receive step increases. This year faculty and staff received a 2 percent cost-of-living increase, an additional paid day off, and their step increases.
It was my understanding that we no longer received annual step increases. I didn't get a step increase, just cost-of-living. Are other people getting step increases?
Staff and faculty received a 2 percent cost-of-living increase. While employees do not automatically receive step increases supervisors have the option to give step increases based on performance and other factors.
Oct. 9, 2014 - Paper Consumption on Campus
In recent years there has been a focus on sustainability (now apparently to the point that we cannot have toilet paper rolls that can rotate completely around). Is there any talk of reducing paper consumption on campus by limiting the number of printers and copiers on campus? Maybe there at least could be some sort of effort to discourage their use.
From Michele Mouton, Director of the UAF Office of Sustainability
There have been numerous discussion at the Office of Sustainability about reducing printing and copying on campus. Those efforts have been useful in reducing come department use but no broad scale policy has moved forward. With the completion of the Sustainability Master Plan in the Fall of 2014, there is a strategy which focuses on establishment of a committee to identify opportunities. In strategy 8.2 there is an initiative to Convene a Waste Reduction Committee.
If staff and faculty are interested in serving on a committee, please contact me at 474-5070.
Oct. 8, 2014 — Time capsule contents
I heard the time capsule was opened recently. What was in it?
Items deposited in the copper container and sealed in the cornerstone of the Physical Education and Recreation Center in Oct. 1962 were as follows:
Oct. 7, 2014 -- Executive staff not receiving bonuses
Is it true that members of UAF's executive staff are getting bonuses in the middle of all of the layoffs and program cuts?
From Brad Lobland, Director of Human Resources
No, members of UAF's executive staff are not getting bonuses.
Faculty and non-executive staff receive cost-of-living increases as negotiated in the collective bargaining agreements each year, plus most also receive step increases. This year faculty and staff received a 2 percent cost-of-living increase, an additional paid day off, and their step increases.
Beginning in FY 15, the former "executive" category was split into two groups: "officers of the university" (includes the chancellor and the provost), and "senior administrators" (includes the vice chancellors, deans, and directors).
The officers of the university received zero pay increases for FY 15.
For senior administrators, an aggregate pool of funds equal to 1.5 percent of salaries, was budgeted. The chancellor split this pool among the senior administrators to provide a small (.75 percent) cost of living increase, and to provide market and merit adjustments for some individuals where appropriate.
Oct. 7, 2014 -- Disabilities in relation to the on-campus shuttle
I understand that you can now only order the shuttle bus if you have a disability. Do you have to identify yourself as having a disability when you ask for a shuttle bus? To whom? In what details? Who vets these things? Isn't there a privacy issue here?
From Martin Klein, Business Manager in Auxiliary and Contract Services
At UAF we currently offer fixed route shuttle service Mondays through Fridays from 7:15 a.m.–10:30 p.m. There is no shuttle service offered on weekends.
The on-campus shuttle service is supplemented by providing on-call service to on campus locations for those who otherwise would not be able to access a location due to a mobility disability. In the case of a single, one-time, request, transportation services will respond without requiring proof of a disability. For those requiring repeat service the needs are vetted through UAF Disability Services for student riders. Service needs for staff, faculty and visitors are vetted through The Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. University dispatch may ask the nature of the disability to insure that the appropriate equipment is sent out, and they only relay to the drivers if a wheel chair lift is needed, the pickup location, and destination. Use of the on-call shuttle service is not mandatory. Students or employees who do not wish to disclose the existence of a mobility disability may use the fixed route shuttle or make their own arrangements for transportation.
This is not a change from what has been done in the past. There may be some confusion because UAF has eliminated on call shuttle service to many off campus buildings due to funding constraints. All shuttle service has been discontinued to the following off campus buildings: Administrative Services Center, Facilities Services Physical Plant, 590 University Ave. (Design and Construction), Harper Building, West Valley Plaza, Georgeson Botanical Gardens. Limited scheduled service remains to the following off campus buildings: Old University Park, Hutchison Career Center, eLearning. Shuttles providing this service are ADA accessible and are wheel chair lift equipped. Schedule details may be found on the Facilities Services Shuttle Bus webpage.


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Meaning, there will be a new movie in 2014.
Source: It's Official: Jurassic Park IV is Coming in 2014!
It's been rumored but now it is official, Universal Pictures announced that Jurassic Park IV will be in theaters in 2014.
Very little else is known about this project, but Stephen Spielberg will be producing it and there will be a 3D version. No director or stars have been announced yet.
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Veterans Day is the time to think about the men and women who have served in our armed forces and how we as a country honor them.For now, focus on that group of American veterans who were called doughboys, the soldiers who fought in the First World War and laid down their weapons on Nov. 11, 1918.In 1926, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution commemorating Armistice Day, which read in part:"[T]he 11th of November 1918 marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals … it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer … inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples."What do we as Americans even know about that First World War, the Great War, the War To End All Wars?World War I dramatically altered nearly everything, yet we as Americans know next to nothing about it. The average citizen may recall something about poppies, "over there" or the Red Baron.The historical significance of the First World War cannot be overstated. It reshaped the 20th century. Its ramifications are still being felt.The rise of communism and its subsequent regimes and wars (Korea, Vietnam); World War II (some historians consider it a continuation of World War I) and the Holocaust (the first modern-day genocide was inflicted on the Armenians in the First World War, with the rest of the world casting a blind eye); the Cold War; and Middle East conflicts — all have roots in the Great War.The year 2014 will mark 100 years since the war began. Today, the indescribable carnage, historical importance and modern-day consequences of World War I are sadly glossed over in school classrooms and virtually ignored by news media.The American Expeditionary Forces sent 43 divisions to Europe, an unprecedented number. About 4.8 million people from the U.S. served in the armed forces in the 19 months of our participation, of that total just over 2 million did so overseas.U.S. casualties numbered well over 320,000 men.How can we begin to understand current ethnic, religious and geopolitical conflicts without possessing knowledge about the years 1914 to 1918? We've all seen the iconic 20th century war memorials in Washington, D.C.: World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War. They help us reflect, learn and honor the sacrifices.Do you remember the national World War I memorial? Of course not, because it doesn't exist. Fortunately, steps are underway to correct that absence (please visit www.wwimemorial.org).In this country and perhaps elsewhere, our involvement in World War I has been downplayed, disregarded and virtually ignored. Sadly, but inevitably, the men who served are now all gone.There is no way to thank them — no honor flights, no Main Street parades with marching doughboys.Now, the best way to honor them is to learn about their sacrifices — and remember.The stories of the First World War must not be forgotten. Every veteran, both living and deceased, deserves to be honored.We've met the "Greatest Generation." Now let's meet the generation that raised them.Your father, grandfather or great-grandfather was not just an old man. Chances are, he served in the Great War, which changed his life and changed the world. Jennifer Rude Klett is a nonfiction freelance writer in Delafield, Wis. jrudeklett.webs.com
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'Top diplomats to join Iranian n-talks by weekend'
In a bid to promote the final round of Iranian nuclear talks, some foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany are expected to meet here Friday, Xinhua reported citing diplomatic source Monday.
The final round of Iranian nuclear talks made little progress in the first week's negotiations, as the substantial gaps remain unresolved.
US Secretary of State John Kerry may join the foreign minister meeting following his scheduled trip to China, Diplomatic source said. But except Kerry, it is still unclear which countries would join the meeting by the end of this week.
The talks are seen as the last opportunity to resolve the long-disputed Tehran atomic plan by July 20, when the Geneva interim deal is set to expire.
Iran and the P5+1 group reached the landmark interim deal in Geneva, under which Iran would suspend some sensitive nuclear activities in exchange for limited sanction relief in six months' duration, buying time for diplomatic work to find a comprehensive solution for the issue.
Powers demand Iran to significantly scale back its nuclear programme to address the world's concern, while Tehran insists that its nuclear right is inalienable.
Western states have long suspected the real intention of Iran's atomic plan, saying Iran might covertly develop nuclear weapons, an allegation Tehran denies.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's gubernatorial candidates this morning kept after each other this morning — although at a much more subdued volume — as they faced off for the last time before the general election next Tuesday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a city such as Providence, which has lost residents and businesses over the decades yet maintains the key elements of a great city — natural beauty, stunning architecture, a superb location and world-class universities and medical institutions — finding ways to rebuild the economy, develop raw land and renovate empty buildings is particularly challenging.
Media General won U.S. antitrust approval to buy LIN Media after agreeing to divest television stations in five markets including Providence, the Justice Department said.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — President Obama arrived in Rhode Island on Thursday night, the first president in a half-century to stay overnight in the Ocean State. Landing a few minutes after 9 p.m. at T.F. Green Airport...
WILMINGTON, Del. – Curt Schilling and three other former executives of 38 Studios have reached a proposed financial settlement in the federal bankruptcy case of the defunct Providence videogame company.
KINGSTON, R.I. — FM Global, one of the world's largest business property insurers and one of the state's largest private companies, on Wednesday joined other Rhode Island companies in pledging support — $1 million in FM Global's case — to help build the University of Rhode Island's proposed College of Engineering facility.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When President Barack Obama overnights in the Providence area this week, it will be the first time in more than 50 years that a sitting president has slept in the nation's smallest state.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Health Services Council on Tuesday approved the purchase of a Rhode Island drug-infusion service business by health-care giant CVS Health Corp.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Once again, Rhode Island ranks near the bottom in the Tax Foundation's annual State Business Tax Climate Index, at 45 out of all 50 states.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — DNA-sequencing firm Nabsys has hired a new vice president and chief scientific officer, Anthony Shuber, the growing life-sciences company in Providence has announced.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation agreed Monday to extend an existing month-to-month consulting contract through the end of this fiscal year, which won't exceed $35,000, with a former Rhode Island Monthly Magazine editor who has been working on tourism marketing for the state.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation has agreed to hire a Pawtucket design studio with the motto, "We're obsessed with helping you find out who you are," to create a new website for the agency that's charged with improving the state's economy and creating jobs.
Barnaby Evans asked the subcommittee to consider raising the height of the pedestrian bridge so more boats can fit underneath, creating a larger than planned grassy seating area near the water, and ensuring that the city's river walk can be extended.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Citizens Financial Group Inc. finished its first quarter as a newly public company showing increased profits.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island gasoline prices have dropped another 5 cents, according to AAA Southern New England.
CRANSTON, R.I. — Rhode Island added 5,400 jobs from June 2013 to June 2014, not the 4,200 jobs that federal data showed, according to the state Department of Labor and Training.
A new report by a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing poverty reinforces the findings of Middle Class Squeeze, the year-long project by The Providence Journal about income inequality and the shrinking middle class.
CRANSTON, R.I. — Construction work is under way on the first phase of a project that will bring 52 new apartments to the site of a former Catholic school located directly behind the Garden City Center...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Innovate public education to offer students whole new ways to learn, the president of a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit think tank said Thursday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — State officials are reporting stronger job growth in the second quarter of the year in Rhode Island than originally estimated.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce is preparing to kick off its second fall Garage event on Thursday for local high-growth companies to talk about how they've succeeded in the local economy.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The inquiry into whether ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling violated Rhode Island's lobbying laws appears headed for a close on Friday, Oct. 31 — yes, Halloween.
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation and the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council have awarded $269,963 in grants to 6 businesses from the Innovate Rhode Island Small Business Fund.
Rhode Island ranks third in the nation for energy efficiency, making the top five for the first time since the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy began putting out its annual report.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who took West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on a climate-themed tour of Rhode Island on Oct. 10, is fulfilling his promise to reciprocate by letting Manchin lead him on a tour of coal country on Wednesday.
The Rhode Island Foundation is accepting applications for the 2015 Rhode Island Innovation Fellowship, an annual program to stimulate solutions to the state's challenges.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Although many lost power in downtown Providence Tuesday morning, the Providence Place mall appeared unaffected by the outage. Meanwhile, a Citizens Financial Group spokeswoman said that eight of the bank's ATMs in downtown went off line when power was lost. All but two were operating normally shortly after noon. Some RISD buildings along South Main Street lost power as well. Activity in those buildings returned to normal when power was restored, according to RISD spokeswoman Jaime Marland. Real-estate management company CB Richard Ellis said the office tower it manages at 100 Westminster St. switched to emergency generator and went back to normal operation shortly after the power disruption began, according to Alden Anderson, a broker with the firm. Amtrak service through Providence appeared unaffected by the outage, with trains continuing to run on time through Providence Station.
WARWICK, R.I. -- Susan Arnold, chief executive officer/ general counsel of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors and State-Wide Multiple Listing Service, announced her retirement Tuesday, effective at the end of this year.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's 7.6 percent unemployment rate for September remained third-highest among states, behind Georgia and Mississippi, for the third month in a row, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Even as temperatures start to fall, the price of heating fuel is slipping along with the price of a barrel of crude oil.
House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, D-Cranston, and Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed, D-Newport, gave few clues at the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council's dinner on Monday about specific priorities for next year's General Assembly session.
The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council named two public service award winners at its annual meeting Monday night that attracted 500 people to the Rhode Island Convention Center.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission prepares for the construction of public parks on both sides of the Providence River, and a pedestrian bridge to connect the two, the panel...
About 500 people will gather Monday night at the Rhode Island Convention Center for the 71st annual meeting of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gasoline prices in Rhode Island dropped another eight cents in the past week, hitting the lowest mark since February 2011, according to AAA Southern New England.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Jewelry maker Alex and Ani faces a breach-of-contract lawsuit in Rhode Island Superior Court that stems from the sudden departure in April of the Cranston fashion company's chief executive officer.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro Inc. (HAS) on Monday reported third-quarter profit of $180.5 million.
SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Providence-based Textron plans to lay off about 200 workers from its two Slidell armored vehicle plants, saying it's temporarily shutting down production.
Concluding The Boston Fed's "Inequality of Economic Opportunity" conference on Saturday afternoon, three policymakers and analysts offered suggestions for which policies to adopt to promote equality of opportunity.
BOSTON, Mass. — Leadership, vision and collaboration emerged Saturday as key characteristics that cities need to transform their economic circumstances — and perhaps, in turn, halt the growing divide between rich and poor
CRANSTON, R.I. — Rhode Island drivers: Your "wave" license plate days are numbered.The plate issued in 1996 that reads "Ocean State" below a cresting blue-gray wave is about to be replaced by a new plate unveiled...
WARWICK, R.I. — The nosedive in the number of passengers using the state's main airport continued in September, which was down 6 percent from the same month last year.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Cumberland construction company is the apparent low bidder on a state project to rebuild the exterior of Providence Station, the railway transportation hub in the shadow of the State House.
Angela Glover Blackwell is the founder and chief executive officer of an organization with a mission to advance economic and social equity.
BOSTON, MA — Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve's chairwoman, told about 80 researchers and policymakers Friday morning that she's greatly concerned by the widening inequality in the United States, noting that the past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century.
Shoppers at Kmart may not have heard that the retailer's payment system was breached by malicious software. But the hack occurred in early September, according to a federal filing with regulators by Sears Holding Corp., Kmart's parent.
PROVIDENCE — For the second consecutive month, Rhode Island's jobs report showed tepid improvement, with the unemployment rate at 7.6 percent for September, the same as a revised figure for August.The...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island's unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in September, unchanged from August, and the state gained 400 jobs, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training reported Thursday.
BOSTON — Researchers, policymakers and business leaders are expected to gather Friday and Saturday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for a conference on "Inequality of Economic Opportunity in the United States."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island Business Plan Competition is taking a new approach this year as it seeks to involve more entrepreneurs from the beginning to compete for the prizes it awards annually in the spring.
Despite the weaker-than-expected September sales report on Wednesday, the National Retail Federation forecasts that holiday sales will rise 4.1 percent in November and December to $616.9 billion.
CRANSTON — Regaining some of the financial ground lost during the School Department fiscal crisis, the union that represents public school teachers has reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract.
NEWPORT, R.I. — No one knows whether Newport Grand will win approval to add table games in next month's election, but, nonetheless, the facility's potential investors held a job fair at the property Wednesday.
Bank of America Corp., which agreed to a record $16.7 billion settlement of government mortgage probes in August, posted a surprise third-quarter profit as revenue from trading stocks and bonds increased.
President Obama is scheduled to speak Thursday at Rhode Island College about job creation, the progress of the economy and expanding opportunities for women.
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island's long-term unemployed residents will get help finding jobs through a $7.5-million federal grant that will be announced Wednesday by the Obama administration. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island will receive more than $7.5 million to help the long-term unemployed find full-time jobs, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Tuesday.
NEWPORT, R.I. — Plaisance, a manor on Newport's famous Cliff Walk, was sold Tuesday for $5 million, according to Lila Delman Real Estate International.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gas prices in Rhode Island dropped another 11 cents over the past week, according to AAA Southern New England.
Abigail Johnson was named chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments, solidifying her role at the top of the Boston-based company her family founded and controls.
Undergraduate enrollment during the last two years has climbed 7 percent, when forecasters had predicted the opposite.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A report by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council encourages voters to consider the economic impact of bonding questions on the November ballot.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — President Obama is headed to Rhode Island next week "to deliver remarks on the economy," according to a White House spokesman. White House regional communications director Keith Maley said...
NEWPORT, R.I. — The owner of the Newport Grand slots parlor has complained to the R.I. Board of Elections that the group opposed to gambling expansion in the city failed to properly register with the state during the 2012 election season.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The R.I. Supreme Court denied a request Friday made by one of the 38 Studios' defendants for the justices to review a lower court ruling in the case.
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has positioned himself as a climate and clean energy champion in Washington, will reach out to a coal country leader on Friday when he hosts West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin on a personal tour of Rhode Island focusing on the coastal impacts of global warming.
The banker in Barrington, the farmer in Exeter or the teacher in Lincoln may not think much about city residents and the problems they face.
PROVIDENCE — The state's new Council of Economic Advisors gathered for the first time Tuesday and began considering how to compile data on the state's economic climate so it can inform policymakers.
Providence-based Nortek, Inc. said it has acquired the HVAC distribution business of privately owned Phoenix Wholesale, Inc. Terms were not disclosed.
Massachusetts gambling regulators will be discussing Wynn's $1.6 billion casino development in Everett and the future of horse racing at Suffolk Downs.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A national travel magazine has named Providence its "favorite" city, a designation local tourist industry executives say will help them promote the state's capital as a place to visit.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The son of developer and political power broker Vincent Mesolella is about to acquire the home of the state's former traffic court in Providence.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence Redevelopment Agency is about to sign a $1-million contract for the "triangle" lot downtown with a Fall River developer who plans to develop a hotel on the oddly shaped lot.
BOSTON (AP) - An owner of the land that Wynn Resorts is planning to develop into a $1.6 billion casino has pleaded not guilty to federal wire fraud charges in connection with the land deal.
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U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro on Friday is scheduled to tour several communities in Rhode Island, including Central Falls, Coventry, and Providence.
Michael R. Souza has been appointed president of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. He had been serving as acting president following the retirement of Edward Quinlan on May 1.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When more than 200 video gambling machines were removed from the Twin River Casino in 2013 to make way for table games, state officials said the reduction wouldn't lead to a decline...
As he walked outside of Providence's Amtrak station on Monday, Michael Lewis, the director of the state Department of Transportation, pointed to chunks of missing concrete and other examples of the area's...
NEWPORT, R.I. — The business partners looking to turn the Newport Grand slots parlor into a full-fledged casino expanded their offer to city residents Monday, positioning the property as a potential "entertainment...
Shareholders of Media General and LIN Media approved on Monday the proposed merger of the two companies. The deal, which still requires regulatory approvals, is expected to close in early 2015.
NEWPORT, R.I. — The business partners looking to turn the Newport Grand slots parlor into a full-fledged casino expanded their offer Monday as they positioned the property as a potential "entertainment center."
The Ocean State has far more registered voters than data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate it should have.
According to AAA, the price of $3.399 per gallon here is 12 cents lower than it was a month ago, and 14 cents lower than it was a year ago.
Shareholders of Media General and LIN Media are scheduled to vote today on the companies' merger, which prompted the proposed transfer of WJAR-Channel 10 from Media General to Sinclair Broadcast Group.
A $1.4 million dredging project is set to begin soon in a channel in Little Narragansett Bay along the Rhode Island-Connecticut border.
PROVIDENCE — Two years ago, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council and the local business community recommended sweeping changes in state government to stimulate the economy.The nonprofit organization wanted swift action because the state's economy was faltering after the Great Recession, with a 10.7-percent unemployment rate that was second-highest in the nation.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Beset by bad weather, iffy markets and a weak economy, an increasing number of farmers are turning to agritourism — everything from farm tours to apple picking to corn mazes — to boost their bottom line.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Allan Fung found little to disagree on Friday as they spoke about housing and offered suggestions on how Rhode Island can get more housing built.
Next stop, Providence Station.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rejecting an appeal by a local citizens' group, Superior Court Judge Daniel A. Procaccini has upheld a decision by the Barrington Planning Board to approve a master plan for the Palmer Pointe affordable housing development.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Elected officials and leaders of the arts gathered Friday morning at Trinity Repertory Company to galvanize support for Question 5 on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The economists got it right.


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So, you saw the flyers. What's up? Well, the University of Michigan is changing for the worse—so much so you can see it in almost every part of the campus. We can see it just walking around, where the student body is more affluent and whiter than ever before (in 2000, 18.4% of Michigan students had a family income of $200k or more…in 2010, 27.6%). We can see it in the classrooms, where there are more and more GSIs and lecturers, who are paid only a fraction of what tenure-track professors make. We can see it in the salaries of the university administrators, which have risen a shocking 27% since 2006, while they have similarly raised our tuition (in the same time period) 22%. We hear their claims that there isn't enough money, that there have to be cuts, that the state has defunded us, but we see the reality that the administrators always get paid, in full, without fail. We can see it in tuition, which has risen at Michigan a jaw-dropping 233% since 1990, pricing many poor and middle-income students out of the university. We can see it in the student loans we are now forced to take out: last year alone Michigan students took out an estimated $412 million (that's right, for just one school year) in student loans—that's almost half of what the university took in in tuition last year! And to add insult to injury, we can see it in the $2.3 billion the university administration has borrowed since 2007 to build new buildings, buildings we didn't need, money we shouldn't have borrowed, money that students, not the administrators who borrowed it, will eventually have to pay back, with interest in the form of more student loans.
We can all see that the University of Michigan has changed for the worse and that it isn't getting better and that the administration has no ideas other than to raise tuition and to raise their own pay (…already the administration has announced that, despite state funding going up next year, there will still be a tuition hike!). Those of us involved in Occupy UM have been trying to figure out how things got like this and what we can do about it. In our struggle to figure out how things got so bad, we've come across some information that we found helpful. We want to ask you for 15 minutes of your time to share some of this information with you. In this piece, we will try to tell the story of how we got here. It is a story in two parts. The first part is about the Michigan Model and the rise of the for profit university, and the second is about the rise of student debt as a form of predatory lending (a term used to describe when banks use unfair or deceptive practices to get people into debt). By way of conclusion, we'll make a few proposals for what we can do about it.
The Michigan Model: The Rise of the For Profit University
If the original mission of the University of Michigan was to educate all people, regardless of financial resources or background, how did we get into a situation where a small group of administrators make big bucks and ruthlessly raise tuition each year, driving students deeper and deeper into debt? How did this come to pass?
The most important change that has occurred, and it occurred slowly, beginning in the 1980s but intensifying in the early 2000s under the administration of Mary Sue Coleman, is that Michigan has become a university run on a "for profit" model. What do we mean by "for profit" and how is this a change? Well, since the 1960s, in the United States, a massive change has taken place in the way universities are run. In the 1960s, education was envisioned as a public good, as something that everyone, regardless of class, race, gender, ability, etc., should have access to (even though women, students of color, sexual minorities, and the differently abled were still discriminated against). In theory, then, education was considered a public good, because it benefited society as a whole. A smarter populace would be a better workforce, went the thinking, so universities were run, at least ideally, with the goal of maximizing the number of students and the quality of their education, not the amount of profit. Today, however, education is thought of as a commodity, and especially so at Michigan. While Michigan doesn't pay out money to shareholders like a corporation, it is now run essentially like a corporation, or a for profit institution, which means that administrators attempt to squeeze money out of students however they can, and, more importantly, administrators are rewarded financially for increasing the bottom line of the university. This shift, from education as a public good, to education as a commodity, has, especially since 2000, led to a vicious spiral of tuition hikes for students and pay raises for the administrators raising tuition. This is a cycle that we must break before it completely breaks our university.
As it turns out, in this shift from thinking of education as a public good to a commodity, as something for sale, Michigan has played an important historical role. In fact, the University of Michigan has often served as a model for other universities seeking to become more profitable. This is the "Michigan Model."
What is the Michigan Model? It works like this. Universities today all want to be like Harvard, with rich donors, fancy buildings, and students from wealthy and powerful families. Why? Because while educating students can be exciting, rewarding work, it is not flashy or glamorous. Building new buildings and spending and having lots of money are. At some point, beginning in the 1990s, Michigan administrators decided they were tired of the mundane work of educating in-state students and that they wanted to be a Harvard. So they began to work to stop being a state school, in the sense that the duty of state universities is to educate all comers or to serve (in theory at least) as a motor of social and class advancement. That's the reason that for many years, tuition rates for Michigan closely followed middle-class incomes in the state. Because in order for the university to function as a motor of social advancement, everyday, average people had to be able to afford it. We know that now few students can afford Michigan, even the very wealthy ones, which is why we all have so many loans. In essence, what happened was that Michigan tried to turn itself into a private school, into an ivy league, a glamorous, big money, for profit school, thus leaving behind the thousands of in-state students and families who depended on it for an education.
The University of Michigan became obsessed with profit. And how do you make a profit? Well, at universities there's really only one reliable way to make more money: raise tuition. So, Michigan started to do that. And it started to change the ratio of in-state to out-of-state students and the difference between the amount of tuition they paid. Why? Well, they found they could charge astronomical amounts of money for out-of-state students, so they began to raise the number of out-of-state students they admitted. Currently, the ratio is 33% out-of-state to 54% in-state and out-of-state students pay 3x the tuition of in-state students (roughly $11,800 versus $35,000 per year). The administration has recently added a new wrinkle to this equation: out-of-country students. This group of students pay $70,000 per year and are not eligible for any financial aid and have to present a bank statement with their application showing that they have four years of tuition and expenses in cash (out-of-country students are now the fastest growing segment of the student body, currently accounting for 13% of all students).
However, in the pursuit of profit, the university administration under Mary Sue has painted itself into a corner. Wealthy, out-of-state and out-of-country students are a tough market to chase, as they have a lot of money (they can pay for almost any school) and every university out there is trying to get them. What this has led to at Michigan is a building spree. In the attempt to court this high-end, tough-to-capture market, the university administration has decided to spend billions ($2.3 billion, to be exact, since 2007) updating and constructing new buildings, because this wealthy strata of students is used to nice things and they see what schools who truly have lots of money (Harvard, Princeton, etc) have to offer. The problem is that Michigan doesn't really have this kind of money (Harvard's endowment is around $23 billion, Michigan's is around $9 billion). Moreover, state funding cannot be used to build buildings (it can only pay for instruction…which is another reason why the university doesn't actually care that much about drops in state funding). So what the Michigan administration has done is to try to fund their pursuit of this allusive high-end student-consumer on the backs of their current, less affluent students.
They have raised tuition like nobody's business (293% since 1990) in pursuit of building a university that wealthy out-of-state and out-of-country students would want to attend. What this means is that right now you are taking out student debt and paying interest on it, so that the university can chase a small, high-end market of consumers. How could this have been approved as a strategy? Even as a business model it makes so little sense—why spend money you don't have to chase students you don't have? Why have we borrowed billions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and then passed the bill onto students? Driven by vanity and the pursuit of personal profit the Michigan administration has pursued this foolish project, remaking the university, and pricing poor families and students of color out of a Michigan education.
[For more on this see our piece: "Welcome to the University of Michigan, The Engine of Inequality]
Let's give an example to bring this discussion down to earth. In 1996, general undergraduate tuition at Michigan was $5,710 per year, which meant that in-state students with perhaps a little help from their families and working a minimum wage job could get into Michigan and make it through school without going into debt. That reality is now a long lost, distant past. In-state undergrad tuition this year is $11,800 and the total estimated cost with living expenses is close to $25,000. This is incredibly sad, because it means that the institution has become available only to the extremely wealthy or those willing to take on massive amounts of student debt. The average student leaves Michigan with $27,000 in student loan debt (but since this is an average we know that the actual amount for students with loans is much higher). But let's take this figure as a baseline. On a 20-year payment plan, meaning you will be 40 before you pay off your loans, at 6.8% interest, the average monthly payment on 27k will be $206.10, and students will pay a total of 22,464.88 in interest over the life of the loan. If you take out $50,000 dollars in loans, roughly half of what 4 years will cost at Michigan, you are immediately talking about payments that will last the rest of your life (the loan payments on $50,000 at 6.8% interest is $325.00 dollars a month for 30 years). This means you will have to choose between buying a house and paying your debt, buying a car to use to get to work and paying your debt, having children or paying your debt. What it means is that none of our lives will ever be the same. What it means is that the university, instead of being an engine for equality, is now an engine for inequality. It means that many of us will actually be worse off for having come to the University of Michigan. This is the new Michigan difference.
The other key to the Michigan Model is attacking what is known as labor, or the janitors, CNAs, secretaries, GSIs, GSRAs, faculty, and lecturers who make the university run. There are two ways to make money at a university: you can raise tuition or you can lower the amount you pay to the people who work there. And Michigan has done both. If in the last 40 years, education has gone from being a public good to a commodity, what do we know about labor in U.S. universities? What we know is that as universities have increasingly become for profit in the last 40 years, they have consistently attacked the salaries and benefits of their employees. For example, in the 1970s, 70% of all teachers were tenured, meaning they were fully employed, had job security, benefits, pensions, health insurance. The other 30% of university teachers did not—they were what we call today adjuncts or lecturers, meaning they make less money, have little to no job security, and generally get few benefits. Today, in universities across the country the percentages have completely flipped: now, only 30% of teachers are full time and 70% of teachers are precarious part-time lecturers or adjuncts.
Here's an example of how this works at Michigan. A typical undergrad class at Michigan with 24 students (paying $1,200 each for 3 credit hours) brings in $28,800 in revenue for the university. Graduate students receive roughly $8,000 per class they teach, adjuncts $5,000, resulting in a net profit of $20,800-$23,800 per class for Michigan (as class size increases so do the profits). To hire a new tenure track assistant professor costs roughly $74,845. If that person teaches 4 classes per year (as is common at Michigan), the university will make only $10,000 per class, or half of what it makes exploiting young graduate students and adjunct faculty whom it can fire or dismiss at any time, who it harasses for their attempts at unionization or defending contractually obligated benefits.
But why would Michigan move in this direction, isn't this bad for both teachers and students? Because as a university, Michigan has become a for profit business. This leads to an attempt to "break" labor, to drive down labor costs in any form possible. Here at Michigan, two years ago, the graduate students union (GEO) almost went on strike. Last year, the nurses union, 3000 strong, also almost went on strike, and right now at Michigan there is a major battle with national implications on organizing GSRAs (graduate research assistants, for more info see the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Michigan). But these kinds of struggles are frequently hidden from students and from the general population, and they are frequently not linked to increases in student tuition. However, thinking about Michigan as a for profit institution allows us to see that attacks on labor or workers and steep tuition increases are actually two sides of the same coin. And if we are interested in trying to think about how to fight the loss of public education, the rise of student debt, the rise of the for profit university, we will have to think about labor and network with the people who actually make the university run and who are under attack as much as we as students are.
There's a lot more we could talk about here, but there is one final piece of the puzzle we want to put on the table. The final shift that forms a part of the Michigan Model, is a shift in who runs the university. Many years ago, the majority of university administrators were drawn from the faculty of the university. Since the 1990s, universities in the United States have seen the rise of a powerful class of administrators, who have never been faculty, but who have been trained in business or finance programs—trained to run universities on a profit maximization model. What this means is that universities are now controlled by people who do not have students' best interests at heart. Rather, as we can see at Michigan, the university is controlled by people whose first care is for themselves, for their paycheck, and, as a result, the amount of profit the university can generate.
[For more on this shift, see Benjamin Ginsberg's excellent piece "Administrators Ate My Tuition,"]
"Every year, hosts of administrators and staffers are added to college and university payrolls, even as schools claim to be battling budget crises that are forcing them to reduce the size of their full-time faculties. As a result, universities are now filled with armies of functionaries—vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, provosts, associate provosts, vice provosts, assistant provosts, deans, deanlets, and deanlings, all of whom command staffers and assistants—who, more and more, direct the operations of every school."
So that's the first part of our story: the rise of the "Michigan Model" and the University of Michigan as a for profit university. Let's turn to the second, which will be much briefer: the rise of student debt as a form of predatory lending.
Predatory Lending: The Rise of Student Debt
Student debt is one of the most nefarious, darkest areas of contemporary capitalism. But how did it become such a huge part of education? And how important has it really become?
In September 2010, total student loan debt surpassed, for the first time ever, total credit card debt in the United States. Total credit card debt is right now roughly $850 billion. Total student loan debt is over $1 trillion dollars. What this means is that student loans have become an important source of revenue for big Wall Street banks. In a nutshell, the rise of student loan debt has been a ploy by the 1% to make money by driving students into debt. These banks and the federal government have loaned $1 trillion dollars to students, loans that students are going to spend the rest of their lives paying off. In so many words, this is no different than the subprime mortgage crisis that brought the world economy to a halt in 2007. It is an attempt to sell debt to people in unfair or deceptive ways, namely to 17-year-old high school students contemplating whether to go to Michigan or Eastern or Washtenaw Community College and deciding that in the long run it makes sense to take out loans and go to Michigan. This is what predatory lending looks like: lending vast sums of money to people who are not sure what $50,000 of debt is going to feel like at 25 years old in an economy that is still losing jobs. Student loans are predatory lending—it is predatory to loan huge quantities of money to teenagers at high rates of interest by preying upon their justifiable worries about getting ahead in life.
But that's not the whole story. What is so nefarious about student debt is that the big banks have passed legislation to make student debt, in legal terms, unlike any other form of debt. What they have done is turn it into a completely safe bet for themselves and their institutional investors.
Since the beginning of the federal student loan program in 1965, student borrowers are not allowed, as in it is illegal, to change lenders in order to find better terms or rates for a loan. This means once you have a loan, you are locked in. This is unlike any other form of credit.
Then, in 1998 a bill was pushed through Congress with a critical element: this bill made student loan debt "the only type of loan in United States history that is NON-dischargeable in bankruptcy," meaning even if you go bankrupt, and many times if you die, you or someone else will still have to pay off your student loans.
What this means is that banks, with the help of the federal government, have turned student loan debt into a special kind of debt: one you can never get rid of. The reason why U.S. citizens have the right to declare bankruptcy is because predatory lending can ruin people's lives, and people have the right to start over. The possibility of bankruptcy is the risk banks take on when they loan money—that's why they are allowed to charge interest, because they are taking on risk, the risk that people might default and that they might not get paid back. With this new legislation, banks have essentially made student loan debt risk-free for themselves and have, as a result, locked students into a lifetime of debt servitude.
How does this look at the University of Michigan? Michigan makes roughly $1 billion from tuition each school year, which is by far its largest source of revenue. Almost half of that is in student loan debt. This means that each year the 40,000+ students at the university collectively take out an estimated $412,000,000 in debt and then immediately hand that money over to the university. Every year. The university functions then as a kind of gigantic Walmart where the shelves are lined with debt instruments (Private or federal? Fixed or floating rate?), where the goal of instruction has gotten lost in the drive to move these financial products, to make money. As such, Michigan now generates huge profits for Wall Street banks. Since 1998, since the banks changed the bankruptcy rules, student loan debt is where they are making big money, and the university is complicit in this shift from predatory lending in housing and credit card markets to predatory lending to students. The university cries "state defunding," but it is clear to any student with loans we can never repay that the hand that rocks the cradle is on Wall Street and on South University, not in Lansing.
University administrators across the country, but especially at Michigan, have been complicit with the rise of predatory lending to students, which functions as a system of capital accumulation for the finance sector. But why? Isn't it their job to protect students, to look out for our best interests? …And now we have come full circle. Actually, in the university run on a for profit model, it is not. Their job is to increase revenue as much as possible. The more money they squeeze out of students and out of workers, they better they look and the more their compensation rises. Just yesterday (Feb. 20, 2012), the university released a statement saying that even though state funding for Michigan will go up next year, tuition has to be raised. When asked if tuition might sometime in the next future be frozen or rolled back, they replied, not a chance, our costs are out of control. When the combined salaries of 25 highest paid Michigan administrators is whopping $11,158,000 each year (the equivalent of 995 in-state students' tuition), yeah, costs are definitely out of control. Students shouldn't be the ones to suffer. It's time we stood up and said enough. It's time we said: You, Mary Sue, take a pay cut, before we pay another dollar in tuition, before we take out another dollar of student loan debt.
What to do? Well, frequently, student debt is a private sorrow. People who have a lot of debt or who are worried about it, feel like failures, or feel like they or their family is not good enough. But obviously, student loan debt is a structural, not a personal, problem. So the first thing we can do is bring student loan debt into the light as a form of predatory lending that is propping up an administrative class at Michigan. Student debt has to be addressed as a structural, not a private problem. And one of the best solutions for dealing with it, as a structural problem, has been a proposal to make education free for all from Occupy Wall Street and a professor, Andrew Ross, from NYU. You can read more about it here.
But what about in the long term? What kind of solutions does Occupy UM have? You might be thinking now, well, you all are great at identifying problems, but what about fixing them? Where do we go from here?
We don't think the university can continue as it is. But we think the problem with the university is actually pretty simple: the problem is with the people who run it. Do you think if students were in charge of the university, tuition would have been increased 233% since 1990? Do you think if workers were in charge of the university they would allow full-time work to be replaced with poorly paid part-time work as a way of "saving" money, i.e., giving more of it to the administrators? And do you think if students, workers, and faculty were in charge of running the university that administrators' salaries would rise while the university drowned itself in debt to build buildings it doesn't need? Our vision for the future of the university in general, and Michigan in particular, is simply this: a university run by workers and students, a university without a vampyric administrative class. It would be a university open to all, free to citizens and the undocumented alike, a true engine of equality in our lives and our communities.
But now you are asking: Could that really work? Wouldn't things just fall apart? When we first began researching information for this piece, one of the things that we were most surprised to learn is that there is in fact a long tradition of student run universities. In fact, many of the very first universities in Europe in the 12th-15th centuries were student run, such as the University of Bologna, which is in fact the oldest university in Europe. The same is true of many universities in Latin America during the 1960s and 70s. The list of experiences is quite extensive, but the model is generally the same. Namely, there is some participatory structure whereby students and workers make decisions about the university's future. These decisions are passed onto a minimal administrative support staff who execute them. What this creates is a more open, democratic, inclusive university structure where the problems that affect students and workers are the first ones that get addressed, instead of having these groups being the first to get exploited.
How do we get from here to there? We don't have a road map, but we do have some ideas. All that we ask is that you get involved. Email this piece to your friends, tell them to read it. Check the Facebook page and come to GAs when they are announced. Come to an event or an action. Bring your ideas and your desire to end student and worker exploitation at Michigan. Help us abolish student debt, make education affordable, and turn this university once more into an institution based not around profit, but people.
Will you join us?
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Junko Enoshima || Danganronpa: The Animation Extended Final Episode.
monokuma appreciation tbh.
Ah, I'm so sorry! I'm going to try and post more in the upcoming days. Since this isn't my main blog, I tend to forget I have it! But don't worry, I'll be using it more!
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$2,150 1 bed 2200 Westlake Avenue, Seattle WA, 98121
Previously listed: $2,150 1 bed
2200 Westlake Avenue, Denny Triangle, Seattle, 98121
Commute to Downtown Seattle
2200 Westlake Avenue is a one minute walk from the 98 at the WESTLAKE AVE & 9TH AVE stop.
This apartment is in the Denny Triangle neighborhood in Seattle. Nearby parks include Denny Park, Cascade P-Patch and Cascade Playground.
2200 Westlake Avenue has a Walk Score of 98 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
Nearby schools include Spruce St School, Gene Juarez Advanced Training Salon and Hutch School.
The closest grocery stores are Whole Foods Market, Super Supplements - Seattle on Fairview Ave and Michael's Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Starbucks, Wheelhouse Coffee and Starbucks. There are 355 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Seattle Seastar, Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar and Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar.
2200 Westlake Avenue is near Cornish College of the Arts, Denny Park and Cascade Playground.
There are excellent bike lanes and the terrain is mostly flat. 2200 Westlake Avenue is very bikeable, biking is convenient for most trips.
2200 Westlake - Pan Pacific Hotel Tower's Aria suite available now - exclusive rental opportunity. This 1 bedroom/ 1bathroom condo features high end finishes and ample natural light. Open living and kitchen floor plan w/custom hardwood floors, high ceilings and built-in shelving. The kitchen features dark cherry hardwood cabinets, single slab granite countertops & all stainless steel appliances. Living area offers a gas fireplace floor to ceiling windows and a balcony with views from downtown to Capitol Hill. Bedroom w/lush carpeting and double closets. Unit also includes a washer/dryer & full climate control including A/C. This condo is located in the heart of South Lake Union and has full amenities including fitness center, game room, owner's lounge & concierge service. Just steps out the door to shopping, transportation, downtown - this vibrant location is hard to beat. w/s/g & storage included. Parking available for $150/mth in secured garage & motorcycle parking available in secured garage for $50/mth. Terms: 1st & 1 month security deposit; 12+ month lease; $500 move-in fee. No smoking/No pets.
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I was afraid I was turning into hipster until someone pointed out that I use the word "bro," in a non-ironic manner. Turns out I'm just a douche.
Discussing the impeding government shutdown: What do you think.. they going to pull it out at the last minute? I don't know. Does anybody ever successfully pull it out at the last minute?? That's how bitches get pregnant..
Thanks for the heads up, man.
I'll alert the media.
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URL: Loco Roco | YouTube (Check for other Loco Roco video clips!)
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Ok, I'm not really game crazy... I have never owned a Sony Playstation, PSP or even a Nintendo console! I've played when I had the chance... but I've never been too crazy or fascinated about wanting to buy a game until now!! It's so tempting...
All of the Loco Roco characters are very cutesy and monster-like. They are like a mixture of BarbaPapa, Tim Biskup, and Uglydolls which are the artists I like so much. But, it's not just their characters. I love the movement of each of the characters and what they do as well!! Everything seems to navigate in a very comical and imaginative way. (Check the video clip of the guy playing.)
The theme song of the Loco Roco is super cute as well (It's not Japanese, so I wonder if they made up their own language for this, or if it's Thai or something...)? I can't get rid of the song in my head! So many people loved the theme music, that Columbia Records released a CD for Loco Roco! (Locoroco | Locoroco No Uta (single) )
From their website, you can also download AIM icons and other goodies :) You should check it out! They are very cool. I like how each page navigates like the game.


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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 release date, specs and UK price: confirmed details of the next Surface tablet
By Nicole Kobie and Jane McCallion
Posted on 20 May 2014 at 17:31
Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 today at a dedicated event in New York.
In this article we take a look at the confirmed specs and features of the third generation of Surface tablets. See also Microsoft Surface Pro 3 event as it happened.
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 release date
The Microsoft Surface Pro 3's release date has been confirmed as the 20th June, with people in the US and Canada being able to pre-order the device from 21st May 2014.
As usual, the UK market has to wait a little longer to be able to get its hands on the Surface Pro 3, with the rough timeframe "end of August" being stated.
This confirms last year's reports from Windows watcher Mary Jo Foley, who said her sources suggested the Surface Mini would arrive no sooner than Spring 2014, in order to feature Windows 8.1 Update, which has now arrived
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 UK Price
64GB / Intel i3: £639 inc VAT
128GB / Intel i5: £849 inc VAT
256GB / Intel i5: £1,109 inc VAT
256GB / Intel i5: £1,339 inc VAT
512GB / Intel i7: £1,649 inc VAT
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 specs and features
It has been confirmed that the Surface Pro 3 will be both larger and thinner than its predecessor, with a new 12in screen and thickness of just 9mm, while weighing in at a pretty acceptable 800g.
The 12in screen is very impressive, boasting 2160 x 1400 pixels at a ratio of 3:2. Microsoft also announced that there will be new docking station available for the Surface Pro 3 that will enable 4k output.
Another impressive specification advancement for the Surface 3 Pro is the fruit of the new "tireless" working partnership between Microsoft and Intel. The result is the Surface Pro 3 being available with either a Core i7, i5 or i3 on board. The two companies have also managed to make the Pro 3 a completely "fanless" device too.
A lot was made of the Surface Pro 3's "lapability". Although it isn't a word you will be overly familiar with, it is meant to relate to the new kick stand that has been developed that lets you adjust your stand to any point in its 180° hinge.
Work has been done on the keyboard case, with the touchpad being 68% larger while apparently producing 78% less friction.
The Surface Pro 3 comes with either 4GB or 8GB RAM and comes with storage options ranging 64GB to 512GB. Needless to say, it will come out of the box with Windows 8.1 Pro.
I'd think about one of these so long as it weighs about 400g or less and has reasonable battery life and USB charging
By MiniEggs on 14 Apr 2014
Desktop mode is the challenge
my encore is just over 400g so the "latest thing" should be able to come in at under 400g. the screen is the big issue. Windows desktop mode on small screens is a bit fraught. If you set 125%, text is workable but many apps are optimised for 100dpi on a large screen. Apple (screams in background) fixed this by having Retina be 2x their standard of 1024x768. Windows "needs" 768 vertical pixels to work which means a Double resolution 16:10 would be 2450x1536! Microsoft should have outlawed fixed resolutions 10 years ago.
By milliganp on 14 Apr 2014
Screen Resolution - Should read whole of article!
I have windows 8.1 pro running on an Ativ-Pro (1920x1080, 11.6") and Toshiba Encore. Both are far from perfect with standard windows apps (unless you use a mouse). Using a Wacom pen on the larger screen is non-intuitive, you can't easily double click and highlighting for cut and paste is far from reliable. On the 8" screen I use a "bubble-pen", OK for menus but cut and paste is still a bit unreliable.
However both units, on a desktop with USB keyboard / mouse and HDMI monitor are perfectly usable desktops.
both units have Micro-SD set to store Dropbox, so all my files are always with me and reviewable or available for simple edits. More useful than an iPad.
By milliganp on 14 Apr 2014
A step in the right direction
Actually watched the launch presentation and thought it was slick and impressive. I recently bought a new Surface Pro 1 for a good price and have been blown away by how good it actually is. Both the hardware (except for the battery life)and Windows 8.1 are excellent. The Surface Pro/RT is a great concept. The Surface Pro 3 looks like it has addressed and improved upon virtually all the deficiencies on previous versions e.g. not being able to use it on your lap.
The Pro 3 takes care of the power user, so I am interested in if/how Microsoft are going to devise a Surface proposition to meet the needs and pockets of the lighter user. The Surface RT has struggled from the start. But at the right price something like it could offer so much more flexibility than your average tablet and fly off the shelves.
Finally, Microsoft looks like it is starting to get its act together. Interesting times ahead.
By angry_bee on 20 May 2014
Rip Off Britain
I've just run the numbers through XE.COM and added 20% for UK VAT. Microsoft's UK uplift ranges from 13% to 22% or from £71 to £264 per unit.
By milliganp on 21 May 2014
WTF, what happened to Pro
I commented on a speculative article about a "potential" 8" surface a month ago, and the comments are included on an article about the Surface Pro 3 (a real device) launch. What is PcPro(sic) doing? Are you too lazy to write a new article?
By milliganp on 21 May 2014
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Largest fiction library (english), ebooks - 80000 authors -9000
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leechers: 14
Largest fiction library (english), ebooks - 80000 authors -9000 (Size: 23.41 GB)
it's release from (htaylor) + some little fiction books collections
unpacked size -32 GB
Too see which books are included, check the complete file list at:rapid share . com/files/133903539/121212121.rar.html
(delete the spaces in the url)or download the file list here:
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ag3ntofkarma11 • 13 Jul 2010, 04:45
hey if you want to get them in the format for kindle and stuff use the program calibre and it will convert to an epub format.. its pretty easy to use. seed all seed....
lloretdemar1236 • 11 Aug 2012, 15:45
You can download torrents part by part, just by de-selecting archives before using you torrent client.
anonymous • 12 Nov 2012, 20:10
Would love this but too big for my laptop! :-(
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Thanks, huge amount of books to go at on here. Downloaded pretty quickly. Excellent upload
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Would it be so difficult to upload these separately?
anonymous • 24 February 2013, 02:07 Show comment
thanks mate i downloade it in under 3 hrs :P
anonymous • 24 February 2013, 02:08 Show comment
do i need to convert thisto read them on kindle software?
anonymous • 25 December 2012, 22:40 Show comment
Do these work on ereaders? Kobo,kindle etc???
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tkz uploader n seeders ... will seed till my pc go burst (n need to be formatted ) .....
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The rapid share link is dead. I want the list please. But I'm afraid to download the content file. It is quite shady for a txt file to be 12.7 MB. Sorry. Does anyone have a list?
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Would love this but too big for my laptop! :-(
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Army Pvt. Ryan L. Scott has graduated from the Basic Field Artillery Cannon Crewmember Advanced Individual Training course at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. The course is designed to train service members to maintain, prepare and load ammunition for firing; operate and perform operator maintenance on prime movers, self-propelled Howitzers, and ammunition vehicles; store, maintain, and […]
Scott graduates artillery training
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Springdale police crack down on seat belt use
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Springdale police officers have begun a two-week crackdown on seat belt use. The national Click It of Ticket seat belt enforcement effort began today, and runs through June 3. "Too many drivers and passengers on the road at night are not wearing their seat belts, and it all too often ends in tragedy," Springdale Community […]
Police round up for Springdale expo
05/16/12 at 9:22am by kamcbride | Comments
SPRINGDALE – Police departments will be represented at Tri-County Mall over the weekend for the largest expo of its kind in Greater Cincinnati. The Springdale Police Department will host the 21st annual Law Enforcement Expo from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 19, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 20, on the lower […]
St. Michael Festival June 8-June 10
05/15/12 at 4:41pm by rmaloney | Comments
St. Michael Parish in Sharonville is hosting its annual festival Friday, June 8-Sunday, June 10, at the church, 11144 Spinner Ave. Featured bands include The Rusty Griswolds June 8; The Naked Karate Girls June 9, and The Paul Otten Band June 10, Festival hours are 6 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. […]
Evendale Arts Center hosts Mother's Day exhibit
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Join Taft Museum Education Curator Nancy Heath for "House and Gardens of the Taft" program at the Evendale Cultural Arts Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 13. No admission fee. Call the Recreation Center to sign up at 563-2247.
Special effects primer in Sharonville
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Ever wonder how movies and theater make special effects like sounds and fog? Ensemble Theatre presents "The Science of Theatre," an interactive workshop suitable for grades two through nine. The event is at noon Saturday, May 12, at Sharonville Fine Arts Center, 11165 Reading Road. Cost is $5, payable at the door. Maximum 30 students. […]
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The Sharonville Fire Department has located a large stockpile of fireworks-making-material at a Creek Road residence. City officials reported Tuesday night that the materials are stable. The Fire Department, along with other state and federal authorities, safely removed and destroyed some material earlier Tuesday, according to a news release from the Safety Service Department. Those […]
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"Epiphany" is an experimental, mixed-media exhibit by local artist Nancy Gamon, which opens May 5 at Sharonville Fine Arts Center, 11165 Reading Road. Gamon's work explores moments of insight, both mystical and commonplace.These pieces often depict scenes from surreal stories, inviting viewers to imagine their own narratives. In them, characters come of age, travel through […]
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The Herb Society of Greater Cincinnati's herb and plant sale is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Wyoming Civic Center, 1 Worthington Ave. in Wyoming. More than 100 varieties of herbs and plants, as well as garden-related crafts, will be on sale.
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Parents of children entering pre-kindergarten and kindergarten in the upcoming school year have been invited to an information meeting. The meeting, Thursday, April 26, will be held at Princeton High School's Matthews Auditorium, 11080 Chester Road, starting at 6:30 p.m. Information needed for enrollment in the 2012-2013 school year, such as curriculum and transportation, will […]
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"Background Check" nominated for "Best Comedy Scene"
Ree-Invent Films is proud to announce that our short film, "Background Check," has been nominated for "Best Comedy Scene" at the 2014 Action on Film International Film Festival.
This year's Action on Film International Film Festival will run August 22-30th at the Krikorian Premiere Theaters, located at 410 S. Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California. Ree-invent will follow this official announcement with screening time(s) and ticket information as soon as those details are released in the next week or so.
Writer and director, Cherie Kerr, brought home last years award for "Best Comedy Feature" for her quirky, family-friendly feature film "We've Got Balls. Kerr was also named "Filmmaker of the Year" at last year's AOF event. The film also received the AOF award for "Outstanding Cast Performance" and was runner-up for "WAB Best in Show."
Reminder: The DVD "We've Got Balls" release, special limited director's cut, is scheduled for release in August. You can check Ree-invent Films' website for updates or visit the official "We've Got Balls" website at http://wevegotballsmovie.com/. You may also find updates on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WGBtheMovie.
We hope to see all of you at the upcoming AOF event!