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6 Important Things Nobody Tells You About Grad School
Summer! The courses are complete, the exams are over, and the students emerge from educational cocoons to blink in the harsh light of the real world. Many dive straight back under the downy duvet of postgraduate education, and every single one of them is reading this, because screwing around on the Internet is what postgraduates do instead of ever leaving the building.
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"Haha, I'm sitting quietly at my desk reading NON-work-related material! In your face, The Man!"
The Internet is full of postgraduate "advice" from bitter ex-students warning people to stay out of graduate school, because they still haven't learned that whining and spending all their time online was their problem in the first place. Some advice about advice, or advice-squared: If someone tells you what they wish they would have done, listen. If they only tell you things they wouldn't have done, ignore them, because they've confused regret with wisdom. When someone fantasizes about having achieved less in life instead of figuring out how to make things better, that's more of a review of the life than the problem. Even when they're right about the problem, they're the wrong person to help you solve it.
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I love my two and a half postgraduate degrees in physics because, like all loving relationships, they're still part of me, and it's the one I didn't finish that taught me the most. Mathematically speaking, I have (2+i) postgrads: the last part made things complex and didn't end up real, but it added to the magnitude of what I learned. It's also what sent me off at an unreal angle into another career.
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For example, my work on this system is why I'm not scared to write articles dissing Superman.
Now I'm paid to learn about science and apply that knowledge to light sabers, and I have enough qualifications to be called "Master-Master," but not enough money to actually make anyone do so. If you're considering or already in postgrad work ...
#6. Look for a Job
I don't care if you have a position researching the effects of your genitals on a willing group of test subjects. Look for a job.
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Actually, that would be multiple positions.
I'm not telling you to get a job instead of studying. Society only exists because brains can learn, but academia is the only part of society that acts like it. Politics, business, and warfare all just play with the toys learning gave them, because arguing, greed, and violence are the childish parts of the species. Learning is how humanity grows up.
Extended education is an excellent way to pursue a passion for knowledge. Unfortunately, some students use it as a bunker to hide from the current employment climate.
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It's like a zombie apocalypse, except this time the victims are the hordes of bodies
desperately chasing the few opportunities to feed themselves.
You don't search for jobs to escape from postgraduate school. You search for jobs so that you don't feel like you have to. I've known dozens of students who felt trapped by their programs, but had less knowledge of the outside world than a post-nuclear vault dweller. And you'll eventually hate a prison cell even when it has an unlimited Internet connection. Knowing about the jobs you could take reminds you that learning for a living is a choice you made, and why you made it.
#5. Remember That Research Is the Point of Everything
Academia is where the human race remembers what brains are actually for. Learning is the only reason we're in charge of the planet instead of hiding from tigers, but it's been corralled in universities and made to beg for funding, despite being responsible for all wealth in the first place.
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"Ha, I just remembered that I get paid more than the people who invented this globe-spanning technology!"
The human brain is designed to learn, always and forever. That's why baseball statistics is a hobby instead of an emergency anesthetic. The whole point of humanity's extended childhood is to learn and improve its abilities. With academia, that becomes nanotechnology, the Mars missions, and cures for disease. Without education, it's people who can recite the element matrices of all 649 Pokemon, as if being a human tape recorder was a worthwhile thing to do with a life.
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They worked out how to record animals 40,000 years ago, and theirs would gore the shit out of Bulbasaur.
It's why so many people overanalyze TV shows, us included. Deep down we know we need to learn and think. But thanks to catastrophic flaws in modern society, every day more people are taught about new brands of toothpaste than about scientific discoveries.
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"In fact, this ad contains five entirely made-up scientific-sounding words, to actively make you dumber!"
#4. Care About the Subject
If you're doing a research degree in something you don't care about, what the hell are you doing. Notice how the sheer gravity of that question has compressed the question mark into a period because there is no possible answer. Entering a postgraduate degree means declaring that you will become the world authority on something. Only a tiny bit of a specific section of a sub-discipline of something, but you will know that bit better than everyone else who has ever lived. Because nobody knew it until you did. You're pledging to permanently expand the sphere of human knowledge by choosing a direction, learning right up to the bounds of understanding, then head-butting them further out with what's in your skull.
This is not something you can clock into like a day job. If you're prepared to work 20-hour days on something you hate, great! Go get paid for doing that! Universities will let you sign up for a subject without passion because that's how they get highly skilled technical laborers for sub-mininum wage. Ph.D. students work longer hours than submarine nuclear reactors, and under greater pressure. You are dedicating at least half a decade of the most capable part of your life to becoming the master of something. Act like it.
Ph.D.s are where education reveals its true form: not teaching people what we already know, but learning how to learn what we don't. Research is taking on the previously incomprehensible machinery of the universe with 1.4 kilograms of yougoo. It's a lot of work. It's how we build the future. It's why the title of science fiction's most brilliant person is "Doctor." Not "CEO," or "President," or "Major," but "Doctor," because he knows to find and solve new problems by being intelligent at them.


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The funeral service for Buffalo Police Officer Patricia A. Parete, who died early Saturday morning, will be at 11 a.m. today in Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave.
The service is open to the public, but seating capacity is limited.
Police officials said there will be no formal processions leading to the church. The service also will conclude at the church.
To honor Parete, who was paralyzed after being shot in the line of duty on Dec. 5, 2006, a 21-gun salute is planned sometime between noon and 12:30 p.m.
Also, the Buffalo Fire Department will drape an American flag across Delaware at West Tupper Street.
Delaware Avenue will be closed from Tupper to Edward Street and from Edward to Virginia Street.
Police officials said east-west traffic is not expected to be affected, but there will likely be traffic delays in the area.
For 30 days starting last Saturday, Buffalo police officers are wearing black bands around their badges in a public show of mourning for the passing of Parete.
Meanwhile, the Common Council on Tuesday began the process of renaming a pocket park at 33 Whitney Place after Parete. Block club members maintain the park, which is not far from where Parete was shot, and said renaming it would be a "respectful tribute," according to Fillmore Council Member David A. Franczyk.

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As the temperature drops, many people might seek shelter from the cold by doing indoor activities, but for one college student, colder weather affords a better experience in rock climbing.
Greg Mulherin, of Southampton, began rock climbing as a sophomore in high school. He climbed for a while and stopped until he was a senior when he really got into it, especially as a form of exercise.
"It's a way to stay in shape and relieve stress," he said.
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Greg Mulherin, of Southampton.
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Now a junior at Pennsylvania College of Technology, Mulherin has been frequenting the Milton Rock Gym, 45 S. Front St.
Yet autumn weather is a better time to rock climb outside because climbers can get a better grip since they aren't sweating and there aren't as many bugs, Mulherin said.
"I prefer outside," Mulherin said. "I can connect with the surroundings."
Climbing outside also allows him to have variety. A rock gym has the same rocks all the time. Outside there are different mountains to climb.
"Each climb has a different feel," Mulherin said. "Inside is repetitive."
As a student, Mulherin finds autumn does not allow as many opportunities to go outside. In the summer, he would spend four days a week rock climbing. Now he only can go once a week.
Rock climbing is something that can be safe, if a person knows what to do and uses equipment such as a bouldering pad.
"It has a lot to do with experience and knowing limits," Mulherin said.
One of the most important things to learn is how to fall safely. He said a climber can feel when a fall is coming, so it is important to look down to make sure the fall will not be on the person's back.
"A lot of people struggle with control of a fall," Mulherin said. "It's kind of dangerous if you don't know what you're doing."


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When the foreskin of a uncircumsized penis, with a larger than normal circumfrance, stretches over another penis with a considerably smaller circumfrance; Most notably called a Dock. The end result is the foreskin of the larger penis drooping over the other penis like a Wizards sleeve.
Gandalf the Grey Warlock Docked Frodo Baggins while Samwise and Smeagol watched in astonishment.
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Good news! I have finally finished the rough draft of the cookbook. I need to do a few edits and all that, but it is almost ready to go on sale. I had no idea it would be so much work!
The book's near completion raises the question of how to sell it. I was planning to integrate Google Checkout into my blog, but it is not available to Canadians (grrr). PayPal looks complicated, so I was thinking of selling it through eBay. It already has a PayPal option, and I can place a posting on both the Canadian and American site. I'm not sure how the whole thing works when you are selling a digital file, so if anyone has some advice I would be much obliged.


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MDVA Surviving Spouse/Dependent Education Benefit
MDVA Surviving Spouse/Dependent Education Benefit (formerly War Orphans Education Assistance--for Minnesota residents only--is administered by the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA). You may be eligible for an additional amount up to $750.
The application form, MDVA-3, is available online at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA) Website. Complete Sections 1 and 2 before submitting the form to a One Stop Student Services Center for completion of Section 3-School Information.
When all sections are completed, you must submit the form to MDVA for approval. MDVA will send copies of the approval to you and One Stop Student Service Center, where the approval will be recorded.
For complete eligibility requirements, application, and contact information, please read the MDVA Surviving Spouse/Dependent Education Benefit Information Sheet available from the MDVA Veterans Linkage Line. If you don't have it, you'll need Adobe Reader software available free at Adobe.com.


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Staying up all night having sex with a girl even though you need to work early the next day
I am so tired. I met this girl last night at Pizza Hut Bistro and hate myself for pulling a Kosteff. I fucked every way imaginable and she still wanted more. Finally left her house at 5:00 a.m..
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"She seemed like she was on something," says the source.
Three days later, after several episodes of reportedly erratic and bizarre behavior, Houston would be dead in her hotel room at age 48, just hours before she was to appear at music mogul Clive Davis's annual pre-Grammy party.
Coming off another round of rehab last May, she appeared poised for a glittering comeback – she stars in this summer's film Sparkle – and a triumphant return to the music industry's biggest week, the six-time Grammy winner serving as mentor to young divas.
But after checking into the Hilton, her odd behavior on Wednesday morning was just the start.
The next day, as Houston turned up for rehearsals for Davis's gala, she "appeared disheveled in mismatched clothes," the Los Angeles Times reports, her hair wet with water or sweat.
"The singer smelled of alcohol and cigarettes," the Times reports, adding she "displayed erratic behavior" by "flailing her hands" while speaking to singers Brandy and Monica, then went "wandering aimlessly" around the lobby.
A source tells PEOPLE that Houston was "twitching her nose constantly" and ranting to Monica about what she was apparently supposed to wear to the Davis event.
"I don't wear no blue," she said, according to the source. "I don't want no goddamn blue."
Later, at a pre-Grammy event at TRU Hollywood, Houston joined Kelly Price for a duet of hymns, but her vocals were shaky.
Then, Houston tangled with singer Stacy Francis. After first not recognizing her, Houston "got belligerent" with Francis, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Francis later didn't deny the episode, saying only to THR, "I have the utmost respect for Whitney Houston and her talent."


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Fluffy - Usually describing a person or a behavior that is soft, cute and anything unmanly. Normally seen as an insult or an embarrassment. See examples.
Tim watches disney, he is so fluffy.
WTF you let your woman call you "cuddlecakes"? That's fluffy dude.
Tim, stop acting all fluffy and shit.
WTF you let your woman call you "cuddlecakes"? That's fluffy dude.
Tim, stop acting all fluffy and shit.
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Adjective describing things that are overly girly.
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Something/someone that is perfect in every single way possible from your own personal perspective
Isn't he so fluffy.
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OMG it's so fluffy!
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Really poofy hair. Also a nickname for guys with long semi-frizzy hair.
Hey, there goes a fluffy!
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An awesome type of person, can often mean adorable, fun loving, and cuddly. Fluffy can be referred to as a person who is extremely attractive on occasion.
She is a very fluffy person.
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After recently revealing their propaganda posters, the Capitol has now released an "official Panem Address" urging its people to remain "together as one."
"Your hard work feeds us," says Panem's President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland). "And in return we feed and protect you."
Snow knows that war is coming and is prepared to do whatever it takes to win – including using Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), who was captured by The Capitol at the end of Catching Fire, as a prop in his propaganda campaign.
"If you fight against it, it is you who will bleed," he says.
In this war, it's clear that the odds are not in the favor of the Girl on Fire and District 13.
Also in the mix: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Sam Claflin and new cast member Julianne Moore, as President Coin.
Check out the trailer below, and remember, "Panem Today. Panem Tomorrow. Panem Forever."


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SALEM - Salem City Council-At-Large appointee Jeff Cushman said he's running for the Republican nomination in the May primary for election to a four-year term after serving more than a year of an unexpired term which ends Dec. 31.
The 50-year-old owner of Barclay Machine Inc on South Broadway Avenue said he decided to seek a full term because "I believe I have a voice of reason and common sense. I'm excited about the opportunities Salem has."
Cushman was previously elected to the Salem City Board of Education in 2009 and served two years of a four-year term before being tapped in December 2011 to serve the remainder of Mayor John Berlin's Council-At-Large term, which he left to become mayor.
"Gaining an understanding of the parliamentary procedures, the protocols and general culture of city government is challenging, but I've drawn upon my previous experience being on other boards, my knowledge of Salem as a lifelong resident, the nearly thirty years of business experience and as a business owner to get right to work on the issues facing our city," Cushman wrote in a press release Wednesday.
"I've learned a lot in my time on council and I have more to learn, but I am actively involved and engaged in the issues that come before council and prepared to put my knowledge, experience and common-sense approach to work to finish my appointed term and hopefully win election to another full term as Council At Large if the citizens of Salem allow me," he wrote.
A lifelong Salem resident, Cushman is the son of Ronald and Juanita Cushman of Salem and graduated from Salem High School in 1981. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kent State University in 1989. He and his wife, the former Susan Pugh of Salem, reside on Pearce Circle and have four children, Brian, Brice, Sidney and Cade, a daughter-in-law, Anne, and granddaughter, Avery.
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By TOM GIAMBRONI
Staff Writer
LISBON -The lineup is tentatively set for the May 7 primary election, but the only contested race will be in East Liverpool.
Wednesday was the filing deadline for anyone wanting to run for the partisan races up in the primary election. The Columbiana County Board of Elections is expected to meet Feb. 15 to certify the validity of the candidacy petitions.
As mentioned, the only contested race will be in East Liverpool, where there are four candidates seeking the Democrat nomination for the three council-at-large seats up for grabs this year. The candidates are Sherrie Curtis, Russell Dray, Brian Kerr and Ryan Stovall. No Republicans filed for the positions.
Following is a list of the cities and villages with partisan races and the candidates running for them:
County Municipal Court Judge
Jan. 1 term: Mark Frost, Republican.
Jan. 2 term: Carol Robb, Republican.
Mayor: Bryan Blakeman, Republican. The incumbent, David Spatholt, usually runs as an independent candidate, and the filing deadline for independents is May 6.
Council (3 to nominate): No one filed to run for these positions as either a Democrat or Republican. Blakeman is one of the incumbents, and he giving up his seat to run for mayor. The other incumbents, James King and Thomas Ferguson, ran as independents the last time.
East Liverpool
Municipal Court Judge: Melissa Byers-Emmerling, Democrat.
Council President: John Torma, Democrat.
City Treasurer: Virginia Hanlon, Democrat.
First Ward Council: Ray Perorazio, Democrat.
Second Ward Council: H. Charles Wade, Democrat.
Third Ward Council: Thomas Cunningham, Democrat.
Fourth Ward Council: Brian Vaughn, Democrat.
Council President: Rick Drummond, Republican; K. Bret Apple, Democrat.
City Treasurer: no Democrat or Republican candidate filed.
Council-At-Large, 3 to nominate: Brian Whitehill and Jeff Cushman, both Republicans.
Council (4 to nominate): Dan Summers and Danny Fire, both Democrats.
Council (4 to nominate): Roger Gallo, Cheryl Mills, Tom Darcy and Joseph Morenz, all Republicans.
Board of Public Affairs (1 to nominate): Bob Garwood, Republican.
Council (2 to nominate): Nancy Murray and Randall Allmon, both Democrats.
LISBON - Eight money issues and one liquor option are tentatively scheduled to appear on the May 7 primary election, based on Wednesday's filing deadline at the Columbiana County Board of Elections.
The money issues are as follows:
- Center Township: new 1.23-mill fire levy, to run for five years.
- Columbiana School District: new 1.23-mill bond issue for permanent improvements, to run for 29 years.
- Knox Township: new 1.5-mill road levy, to run for five years.
- New Waterford: existing 4-mill operating levy being run as a replacement levy, to run for five years.
- Perry Township: renewal of 1.5-mill police and fire levy, to run for five years.
- Salem School District: renewal of 2-mill permanent improvement levy, to run for five years.
- Salineville: new 3-mill police levy, to run for five years.
- United Local School District: new 3-mill permanent improvement levy, which runs for a continuing period.
Voters in Salem's 4A precinct wil be asked to approve a liquor option allowing the Shell station at the intersection of East State and Southeast Boulevard to sell alcoholic beverages.
In Minerva, voters will be asked whether the village should participate in an electric aggregation program.
Cushman noted how the oil and gas boom has provided an economic windfall for citizens and communities, but also pointed out that not everyone will benefit from it and it won't last indefinitely.
"We need to make sound financial decisions when it comes to allocating these funds and not waste it or make hasty decisions. There are many areas of need in Salem but we must also retain as much in reserve as possible for Salem's future," his press release said.
As a business owner, he said knows how many people want and need jobs and said he's approached frequently by people looking for a job, saying "they don't want handouts, they want income. It is our job to pursue economic opportunities and create jobs in our community."
Cushman said he feels strongly about "the war on drugs and crime in our town. We have amazing and dedicated officers working hard to keep our residents safe and keep drugs off our streets and out of our parks. Our new Chief of Police J.T. Panezott has made a career fighting this battle and we all need to support him and all Salem police officers in their efforts to reduce crime and drugs in our beloved Salem."
In his press release, he said he supports their efforts and ways to make their jobs easier and safer. He said he likes the idea of crime-free zones, which was an idea talked about by fellow Councilman Brian Whitehill related to rental properties, and wants to hear more about it.
He also touched on the graffiti issue and the work being done by members of the Rules & Ordinances Committee and the public meetings being held in an effort to address it, saying "we need to get the message out to those who wish to deface our town, that it will not be tolerated or go unpunished."
Cushman said he's been asked why council members say their committee has not met and they have no report, a question he used to ask himself before joining council. He praised the fact that citizens are tuning in to the meetings and asking questions.
He chairs the Utilities Committee and said many issues are talked about and resolved at the Salem Utilities Commission meeting, explaining that his committee usually only meets when there's an issue that requires a ordinance or resolution to be prepared.
Other committees operate the same way, but he said when a committee has not met that doesn't mean the members haven't attended any meetings. Each council member serves on three committees and chairs at least one committee and attends meetings of other organizations that may be related or other council committee meetings.
"I feel I bring a great deal of experience to city council. I am first and foremost a Christian and owe everything I have to the grace of God. I am a family man, blessed with a wonderful wife and children. I am a lifelong resident of Salem and graduate of Salem High School. I have years of business experience as a business owner here in Salem. I have been involved in many different boards and organizations and I am a proud supporter of many charities and events and community functions," Cushman wrote.
He spoke highly of the renewed interest in revitalization in downtown Salem and said he favors any idea worth discussing.
"I am proud of Salem and only want to see it be a better and safer place to live, work and raise a family. I bring common sense and honesty to everything I do. I look forward to continuing to work with all the wonderfully talented, intelligent and dedicated people in our fine city to make it the best place it can be," he said. "I promise to make decisions that are in the best interest of the citizens of Salem and will rely on my experience and values. I have no personal agenda other than to help and will do my part to make Salem a better place to live and work."


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It's Jamaican for "beer"
There's only one beer in Jamaica, mon--Red Stripe.
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Beer company with good advertising
Boooo big-headed friend. Hooray BEER!
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door Spaceman Spliff 9 juni 2007
Authentic, exceptional Jamaican Lager brewed since 1928. A symbol of Jamaican independence now exported around the world and especially popular with musicians, artists and other creatives in parts of Australia, Europe and continental US. Sometimes known simply as 'The Stripe' it is synonymous with expression through grassroots music, words and visual arts. Just good beer that needs neither fancy packaging or embellishing with a citrus slice. Easy now.
Your shout, get the Red Stripes in.
door Dub2 11 december 2005
What Pabst Blue Ribbon is to indie kids or hispters in America, Red Stripe is to indie kids or hipsters in England / U.K.
Red Stripe Beer is mentioned in the song "What Did I Ever Give You?" by the Kaiser Chiefs (Hold tight, to your Red Stripe...), perhaps selected due to its status as the quintessential "cheap beer" available at practically every Indie gig venue in the whole of England. (From Wikipedia)
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A full-bodied beer brewed in Jamaica. It is available in a watered-down imported "Lager" version in the U.S. that is weak and tastes like ass.
"This isn't the same Red Stripe I had in Negril!"
door derek8674 16 oktober 2007
The award given to one who successfully eats a girl out while she is menstruating.
"aww dude, did you hear that chad earned his red stripes last weekend, sick!"
door "ABJ" 1 januari 2005
When you're fucking a chick when she's on the rag and you pull out at an angle so your dick pops out and sprays a stripe of blood on her stomach or back depending on position during execution.
Dude I totally red striped this chick last night...it was glorious. I almost got some in her eye!
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How a Movie from the '90s Predicted the 2012 Election
Act III: So Which Boxing Movie WAS It?
The actual narrative at play was little-seen '90s boxing/entertainment satire The Great White Hype.
See: The Great White Hype
The Great White Hype is about a boxer, James Roper (Damon Wayans), who, as standing champion, is so good that no opponent wants to face him, and no networks want to carry his fights because they're over so quickly that they're boring. No one makes money on a fight that's over in 25 seconds. Reverend Sultan (Samuel L. Jackson) is a flamboyant promoter, basically the Don King of this boxing universe. He, like the media in this past election cycle, knows that he doesn't need to find an opponent who can beat the champ; he just needs to sell the public on the idea that he has.
He needs to tell a story.
"I want to tell you a little tale about an absurdly wealthy boy named Mitt, just like the baseball glove ..."
So Reverend Sultan plucks from obscurity amateur boxer Terry Conklin (Peter Berg at his best), and the hype parade begins. He releases a number of promos of Conklin (the only boxer to ever knock out Roper in the amateur division) looking tough and strong and intimidating. Roper, by comparison (insulted that he has to waste his time fighting an obscure idiot of a boxer), looks bored and lethargic. He doesn't take his training seriously. He doesn't cut any exciting promos. He doesn't even seem like he wants to fight. Just for good measure, Reverend Sultan plays up the race angle (Roper is black, Conklin is white), and it sweeps the whole nation up into a frenzy. Money starts pouring in.
Conklin rallies millions of fans who really see him as the one guy who could unseat the champ (and the millions of racists who see him as a white guy and are happy about it). He makes plans for his future and sees a world where he's the real champion. He sees how distracted the current champ appears, he buys into everything that Reverend Sultan feeds him and he steps into the ring with positivity and energy and passion and a strong overhand right and ...
And the multimillionaire ruling class underdog wins against all odds!
... is knocked out handily in one round. Handily. And that was always the plan. The Reverend (the media) builds up some poor, obscure schmuck who never stood a real chance of winning (Romney), and even though people think the current champ lost his edge (how many people blogged and screamed and scream-blogged about how Romney "devastated" Obama in the first debate, even though that debate was just average?), he easily won. The Reverend got the nation swept up in a story that wasn't real and made a ton of money doing it. The truth didn't change -- the champ still won, it still happened quickly, and the fight itself still wasn't interesting -- but the narrative changed, and that was all Reverend Sultan needed to do.
I'm not reaching to draw parallels just because I love The Great White Hype. It's not like I'm stretching the truth and bending facts to point out similarities between the 2012 election and Space Jam (which I could also do). The similarities are right there for anyone to see, even down to the race angle that dominated both the movie and the political dialogue of the last campaign season. If you want to go even further, you can say that Nate Silver was Marvin Shabazz (the legitimate voice of reason that no one was listening to), and Dick Morris was Jeff Goldblum's Mitchell Kane (the idiot who got so caught up in the hype that he backed the wrong horse and it likely cost him his career), but only say that around a very specific type of person. Which is to say, a person who knows The Great White Hype as intimately as he knows presidential elections. Which is to say, uh ... me.
Whelp, that's the least accessible joke I've ever used to end a column.
Daniel O'Brien is Cracked's senior writer (ladies) and could make a legitimate case for Space Jam as equally representative of the 2012 election (GOP, or should I say, Monstars???).


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The removal of a deed restriction for the proposed new site of the SPCA Serving Erie County has been requested by the West Seneca Town Board, eliminating another hurdle toward next spring's anticipated groundbreaking .
The resolution adopted Monday night asks the Erie County Legislature to remove a restriction related to 300 Harlem Road that dates back to when the county sold the land to the town in 1969. The approximately 10-acre property was among eight parcels sold to the town for a little more than $22,800, according to Mark Cornell, a spokesman for the County Executive's Office.
The restriction – that the property be used for municipal purposes – inexplicably remained in place when it was sold in June 2001 to Barbara A. and Maurice D. Cooper Jr. for $150,000. The Coopers operated a skate park that has since been demolished in anticipation of the property's sale to the SPCA.
The nonprofit humane society announced in 2011 that it planned to build a new animal shelter that would replace the Town of Tonawanda facility it has now occupied for more than 50 years. While the SPCA is exempt from property taxes, it does pay special district taxes for things such as fire protection.
"I think things are on schedule," Barbara Carr, the SPCA's executive director, said Monday. "My hope is shovel in the ground next spring."
Meanwhile, the SPCA is continuing fundraising efforts with major donors, with approximately $5.5 million raised so far, according to Carr.
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La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 337 pages, with color illustrations ($35). What a rare and special book this is, from its opening paragraph: "Baudelaire used to suggest to his mother, Caroline, that they meet surreptitiously at the Louvre. 'There isn't a place in Paris where you can have a better chat; it's beautiful, you can wait for someone without getting bored, and what's more it's the most respectable meeting place for a woman.' The fear of the cold, the terror of boredom, the mother treated like a lover, surreptitiousness and decency conjoined in the place of art: only Baudelaire could combine those elements almost without noticing, as if it were fully natural. It is an irresistible invitation, extended to anyone who reads it. And anyone can respond to it by roaming through Baudelaire as in one of the salons he wrote about – or even in a Universal Exposition: finding all kinds of things, the memorable and the ephemeral, the sublime and the trash: and moving constantly from one room to another."
But then what a rare writer is the prolific, post-Calvino Italian master Roberto Calasso – 72-year-old scholar, translator, author of film scripts, radio and television adaptations, operatic librettos and seemingly most other viable prose forms in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The quantity of Calasso has never deterred a soul from understanding the wildly idiosyncratic but remarkable nature (the genius, some say) of those books that have made it into English, starting with the unique "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony" and now giving us "La Folie Baudelaire," about the great French poet, art critic and nerve center of early modernism.
What Calasso is constructing here with beautifully illustrated and irresistible elegance is a "Folie" – an 18th century garden pavilion of delight – for Baudelaire's time, full of the poet/critic's poems, subjects, contemporaries and near-contemporaries. That means everything from Ingres and Delacroix to Chopin to Manet to Rimbaud ("He is merciless with the old people who frequented the town library. They are ugly and their principal defect is that they remain seated.") An ideal introduction in English to one of the most urbane and readable of living masters.
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John Courtney stood across the road from his burning home on Tuesday, Sept. 29. He alternated going into his neighbor's house and standing outside in the cool air as fire fighters from three departments attempted to extinguish the blaze.
Courtney said the fire started in the living room of the brick home he shared with his wife, Tina and sons, Grayson Dawson, 5 and Garriane Courtney, 3.
"All I know is I saw a blanket on fire," he said.
It was always "guy time" when 18-year-old Kody Thompson and 9-year-old Collin Krist got together.
Whether they were playing sports, taking a dip in the pool at Coney Island or watching the Reds game, the two grew close last school year.
"He has a lot of the same interests as I do like sports and games," Kody said about Collin. "He's really competitive. I liked being able to show him how to have fun but go the right way about it. It's not all about winning. I tried to teach him some things he could use later on in life."
• Members of CETA (Community Enrichment Through the Arts) will meet at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Grant County Tourism Commission office at the Grant County Chamber office in Williamstown.
• The Grant County Industrial Development Authority will meet at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Chamber of Commerce in Williamstown.
• The Williamstown F&AM No. 85 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8.
• The Corinth Lions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 14 at Noble's.
A Dry Ridge man won't be able to hunt for three years after he plead guilty to a charge of illegally taking a deer.
Joseph L. Carpenter, 48, was arrested on Aug. 28 through a joint investigation of Charlie Phillips, of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, and Dry Ridge Police Chief Rick Kells.
Carpenter was found with a 10-point deer rack, as well as marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
(Editor's Note: The Grant County News publishes all items in police beat that are submitted from each individual police agency. The News does not omit names from police reports.)
Grant County Sheriff's Office
Sgt. Terry Osborne investigated an accident at 5:05 p.m. Sept. 24 on Broadway. The drivers involved were Brittany E. Ammer, 20, of Dry Ridge, driving a 2000 Toyota and Mark A. Woodward, 51, of Lake City, Tenn., driving a 2009 Mercury.
Did you know that Grant County's Chapter of the American Red Cross needs volunteers?
Did you know that Horse Heritage Days had nearly as many teams as the Kentucky State Fair?
Did you know who died in our community last week or who was arrested for breaking the law this week?
Did you know which students were named star students and who got married or celebrated an anniversary or the birth of a new baby?
To start a play in volleyball, a team must play defense first and make sure they can return the ball.
The next play determines whether or not they'll be able to attack or continue playing defensively.
That play is called a set and if it is executed properly, it allows a team to set the tone for a match.
The district tournament starts on Oct. 12 and will give Grant County and Williamstown the chance to show their ability to set the ball and their offensive attack.
July 27:
(Commissioner's Deed) National City Mortgage; Bradford A. Martin and Cara D. Martin, husband and wife; and Citimortgage, Inc., by April Hollon Gatlin, Master Commissioner to Federal National Mortgage Association, Sugar Creek Road property, $140,000
(Commissioner's Deed) Chase Home Finance LLC; Stephen House and Patricia House, husband and wife; and Grant County Deposit Bank, by April Hollon Gatlin, Master Commissioner to Homesales, Inc., Cordova Road property, $80,000
July 28:
While Williamstown cross country coach Michelle Whaley was busy coordinating the Williamstown Invitational, junior Steven Bradford was busy cheering on his teammates and giving them tips as they ran their races.
Bradford took enough time to prepare himself for his own race, taking third in the boys' varsity race with a time of 17:32.7 despite battling a cramp in his side.
"My race wasn't as good as I wanted it to be," Bradford said. "I wanted to break 17 minutes, but I'll get it next race."
Bundled up for the cold, wet weather, Grant County freshman Sarah Kellam set a goal of making 11 pars over the course of her round in the regional tournament.
As she walked off the 18th green, she had no idea how her score held up against others at the tournament, but she was disappointed that she fell one par short of her goal.
She had a little consolation because with her score of 76, Kellam took first place by one stroke at the regional tournament at Perry Park Country Club on Sept. 29.
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Marshall University's Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Graduate Program was well represented at the Experimental Biology Meeting that recently took place in Boston, MA. The annual national meeting involves over 14,000 scientists and exhibitors representing fields of study ranging from anatomy, physiology, pathology, and biochemistry to epigenetics, nutrition, cancer biology, and pharmacology. Some Marshall School of Medicine faculty and students were invited to give oral presentations of their research, while others were able to present their research during the poster sessions. The list of attendees is given below.
Oral presentations by:
Piyali Dasgupta, Ph.D. –
Invited speaker for special session "Molecular Biology of Lung Malignancy" – Title: "Nicotine increases the expression of alpha7-nicotinic receptors (alpha7-nAChRs) in human squamous cell lung cancer cells via Sp1/GATA pathway"
W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D. – Invited speaker for special session "What Comes First: The Food or the Nutrient?" – Title: "Whole foods or their bioactive components? Potential of walnuts in cancer prevention and treatment."
Maria Serrat, Ph.D. – Invited speaker for special session "Bone Physiology under Environmental Stress" – Title: "Temperature effects on the growth plate and its vasculature"
M. Allison Wolf, BMS Ph.D. Candidate – Invited speaker for special session – Title: "Benzyl isothiocyanate enhances chemosensitivity and inhibits migration and invasion of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma"
Katie Brown, M.S. – Invited speaker for special session "Molecular Biology of Lung Malignancy" – Title: "Inhibition of cholinergic signaling causes apoptosis in human bronchioalveloar carcinoma"
Poster presentations by:
Miranda Carper, BMS Ph.D. Candidate
Johannes Fahrmann, BMS Ph.D. Candidate Christopher McNees, MU student
Rounake Nande, BMS Ph.D. Student
Chris Racine, BMS Ph.D. Student
Kristeena Ray, BMS Ph.D. Student
Cody Stover, MU student
Brent Thornhill, MU graduate
Monica Valentovic, Ph.D., Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences' Research Cluster Coordinator
Gary Rankin, Ph.D., Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences'
Research Cluster
Dr. Maria Serrat, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Pathology and researcher within the Neuroscience and Developmental Biology Research Cluster, had the opportunity to give an oral presentation as well as participate in a focus group that evaluated anatomy education material for a publisher.
Serrat said she was happy to see Marshall well represented at the meeting and that "the large number of Marshall attendees says a lot about the expanding research emphasis of our institution."


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The lines are long, the crowds are deep and patience is wearing thin.
Black Friday is no place for children, it seems, but area day cares are not seeing many parents seeking out someone to watch their little ones while they take advantage of shopping bargains.
Begin With Us Child Care and Preschool Inc. President and Executive Director Jolie Cover remembered going Black Friday shopping last year with her daughter, and seeing children crying and complaining while facing the cold, long lines, crowds and rushing.
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Eli Cooper (left) and Brynley Rouzer get help with their chalk drawings from preschool group supervisor Maisha O'Neal at Begin with Us Childcare and Preschool.
She encourages parents not to take their children out shopping because they don't enjoy it.
As for business, "Black Friday is just really another operational day for us," she said.
They won't have as many children as they typically do, because parents also have time off from work, she said.
Only about a handful will take advantage of the day care service for shopping, while most are working people, she said.
Those parents who are Black Friday shoppers are "cute," because she will hear them talking about going shopping and out to breakfast with their sisters or aunts, she said.
She is expecting 30 to 40 percent of their normal capacity on Black Friday, she said.
Walgrove's Daycare Preschool owner Lori Mitchell said they have not had a big demand for child care from Black Friday shoppers.
Hollidaysburg's Nest Egg day care is closed Black Friday.
Black Friday is trickling over into Thanksgiving Day with retailers getting a jump on the most infamous shopping day of the year.
Cover was not in favor of it.
She said it is a special day to spend time bonding with family and to show thanks for what they do have. It's also a time to remember the sacrifices made for the country, which needs to make a return to family values.
"They have Friday and the weekend to shop," she said.
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.


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The Stetson volleyball team will host the 2012 Stetson Clarion Classic this weekend at the Edmunds Center.
The Hatters (1-3) will face Central Arkansas (3-0) in their home opener at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon, then return to the court for a 7 p.m. match against Florida Atlantic (0-0). On Saturday, Stetson will face Wofford (1-2) at 1 p.m., and conclude the tournament with a 5 p.m. match against Hampton (2-3).
Full Tournament Schedule:
Friday, August 31
11 am - Hampton vs. Central Arkansas
1 pm - Wofford vs. Florida Atlantic
3 pm - Central Arkansas at Stetson
5 pm - Hampton vs. Wofford
7 pm - Florida Atlantic vs. Stetson
Saturday, September 1
9 am - Central Arkansas vs. Wofford
11 am - Florida Atlantic vs. Hampton
1 pm - Wofford vs. Stetson
3 pm - Florida Atlantic vs. Central Arkansas
5 pm - Hampton vs. Stetson
Ticket Information
A tournament pass good for the entire weekend can purchased at the door for $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and students. All Stetson home events are free to Stetson students, faculty, and staff with ID. All seats are general admission.
Covering This Weekend's Action
Live stats for all tournament matches will be available here.
Live video for the Stetson matches will be available through HatterVision. A subscription to the volleyball package is available for $9.95. Ryan Rouse will call the play-by-play.
Final scores will be available here.
Fans can also get in-game twitter updates of Stetson volleyball matches all season long by following @StetsonVB from your twitter account. Postgame recaps and statistics will be available on the Stetson Athletics website at GoHatters.com.
Stetson vs. the Opponents All-Time
Record vs. Central Arkansas: 0-0 (first meeting)
Record vs. Florida Atlantic: 4-28 (last meeting in 2011)
Record vs. Wofford: 3-3 (last meeting in 2011)
Record vs. Hampton: 0-1 (last meeting in 2011)
Last Year
Last year at the Stetson Clarion Classic, Bethune-Cookman, Wofford, and Stetson all shared the tournament title with equal 2-1 records.
Second of Four
This weekend marks Stetson's second of four tournaments the Hatters will participate in this season. Next weekend Stetson will play at the Norfolk State Spartan Classic (Sept. 7-8), and in two weeks the Hatters will play at the Charleston Southern Invitational (Sept. 14-15).
Milestone for Monique
Senior Monique Russell (Phoenix, Ariz.) recorded her 1000th career dig last Saturday in the Hatters' 3-1 loss to Tennessee State. Russell, a four-year starter at the libero position, became just the 10th player in school history to reach the 1000-dig milestone.
"It was very exciting to see 'Mo' reach that milestone," Stetson head coach Tim Loesch said. "She really played well every match in the tournament."
Russell collected 75 digs over the four matches, including 28 against Jacksonville State. She has a career total of 1014 digs, just 273 shy of the Stetson school record (Melissa Roy, 1287).
All-Tournament Honors
Junior Ellen Hawks (Austin, Tex.) earned all-tournament team honors after collecting 36 kills and 13 blocks in the four matches. Hawks posted 11 kills against Jacksonville State, and 10 each against Alabama State and Tennessee State.
Kill Leader
Junior Kaley Melville (New Germany, Minn.) led the Hatters with 40 kills last weekend, an average of 2.50 kills per set. She also recorded three double-double performances (10+ kills, 10+digs), giving her 21 double-doubles for her career.
A Good Start
Freshman outside hitter Cailyn Prewitt (Rocklin, Calif.) had a strong collegiate debut last weekend. In four matches, Prewitt compiled 29 kills, including 11 in the final match against Tennessee State. She ranks third on the team with 1.93 kills per set.
Up Next
Stetson hosts Volusia County rival Bethune-Cookman at 7 p.m. Tuesday night.


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Sheriff: He appears to under influence of intoxicant
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Tenn. - A Johnson City man lead police on a chase and hit a deputy with his car Thursday afternoon.
UPDATE: Damien Christopher Slocum, 27 of Johnson City, is charged with aggravated assault and driving on revoked license.
A Carter County deputy pulled Slocum over for a routine traffic stop when he got back into this car and backed over the deputy.
He lead police on a chase into Washington County, Tennessee where he was arrested on Ed Martin Road.
Sheriff Chris Mathes said the chase was an accident waiting to happen. "It really got dangerous. There's a lot of traffic on 36 and all the road construction and a lot of people working. It never was a major high speed chase, but it was a pursuit. We're fortunate it all ended safely."
Mathes said Slocum appeared to be intoxicated.
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Oak Cliff-raised singer and guitarist Jimmie Vaughan performs at the Kessler Theater in Dallas, Texas on Friday, February 7, 2014.
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Burlington, NC -- A Burlington man is in the hospital after police say four suspects attacked him Sunday morning.
Officers responded to the apartments at 400 S. Williamson St. at 5:19 a.m. and found the victim, suffering from several stab wounds to his chest.
The victim told police four black males attacked him while he was in the area.
Paramedics took the man to Alamance Regional Medical Center for treatment. His condition is unclear at this time.
Police do not know the type of weapon the suspects used in this case. The investigation is ongoing.
If you have any information on this stabbing, call Burlington police at 336-229-3500 or Crime Stoppers at 336-229-7100.
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Westminster offers courses leading to the undergraduate degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. The faculties of the four schools determine which of these degrees is to be awarded under each instructional program.
Students may meet degree requirements as specified in the Academic Catalog in effect at the time of their entrance into the college, or they may elect to meet requirements given in a later academic catalog. All major, minor, and liberal education requirements must be contained within a single issue and may not be selected from several issues.
Students who leave the college for no more than two regular semesters retain the right to be considered under their previous catalog and retain the right for six years following the date of entrance to graduate under requirements current at the time of entrance.
Undergraduate students earning baccalaureate degrees from Westminster must complete a minimum of 36 hours of coursework at the college. In addition, undergraduate students must complete in residence:
A maximum of 88 credit hours of external credit is accepted toward a degree. External credit includes any transfer credit, credit by examination, and credit earned through Prior Learning Assessment.
Students may appeal for an exception to the residency policy to the Registrar in writing. Appeals should clearly explain extenuating circumstances and provide a graduation plan. Any courses approved for transfer within a student's last 36 hours must be pre-approved as part of the appeals process.
The college offers the academic programs (majors) listed below:
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|Arts Administration
|Aviation Studies
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|Political Studies
|Economics Pre-Law
|Elementary Education
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|Environmental Studies
|Social Sciences
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The requirements for each of these academic programs are listed according to the school to which they belong. Students are bound by the major requirements of their governing academic catalog. Changes made to program requirements for individual students by advisors are subject to the approval of program chairs, the school dean and the Registrar.
All students are required to complete a junior-year advising appointment with a faculty advisor in each of their academic programs (majors and minors). The primary purpose of this advising appointment is to clearly map out and review remaining degree requirements, with special attention paid to limited offerings and course sequencing within academic programs.
Forms for declaring majors and minors are available in the Start Center, each academic school office, or the Registrar's Office. Students who have completed this process and turned in the required forms and degree audits are then considered formally declared in their major(s) and/or minor(s). Students with junior class standing who have not met with a faculty advisor will not be eligible to register for upcoming semesters.
A major is an area of specialization within the degree. Students may complete more than one major at the same time but may not complete more than one degree at the same time.
Courses that are required for both majors may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for both majors, but elective courses may be used in only one major. The hours may be used only once. In other words, no "double-dipping" is allowed.
Information about combining two Gore School of Business majors may be obtained from the Gore School of Business or the Office of the Registrar.
Students may choose two majors, one that leads to a B.A., and one that leads to a B.S., but may receive only one degree. The first-listed major on the graduation application determines the degree awarded.
Students who successfully complete the Customized Major will have developed:
Highly motivated and creative students may propose individualized programs of study that combine work across multiple traditional disciplines. A Customized Major must consist of a coherent sequence of classes selected from the offerings of at least two academic departments or programs. This sequence must be unified by a consistent conceptual framework that reflects clear focus, along with both breadth and depth of inquiry. There must be a demonstrable relation to a specific set of career or educational objectives, and the program must culminate in an integrative project or thesis.
Possible subjects for Customized Majors include historical periods, keystone ideas, enduring questions, and new problems. For instance, a student might study Modernism in history, literature, art, and music; or she might explore the ideas of freedom and responsibility in philosophy, sociology, and political science; or she might combine insights from environmental studies, communications, and education to investigate the challenge of teaching ecological literacy. With the Customized Major, the possibilities are limited only by the student's imagination and capacity for self-direction.
The Customized Major is not designed for students who are unable or unwilling to satisfy the requirements of existing academic programs.
Applicants must have completed the equivalent of one full-time semester of academic work at Westminster College and must have earned a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher in all classes completed here.
The Customized Major must consist of fifty (50) semester credit hours, 80% of which must be taken at Westminster College.
Only classes passed with a C or higher may be counted toward the major.
The curriculum should reflect a reasonable balance and sequence of introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses, and should include at least one course in research methods from one of the primary disciplines.
It is strongly recommended that each student complete a minimum of eight (8) hours of foreign language classes, though introductory language classes should not be counted toward the major.
As many as eight (8) semester credit hours may be satisfied in field-based coursework such as independent study, internships, community work, and supervised work experience.
Each student must complete a capstone project that integrates insights, information, and methods from the relevant disciplines into a focused inquiry or experience. This project must be proposed to the Advisory Committee (see below) at the beginning of the senior year. The results of the project should be presented in a public forum at Westminster or elsewhere. The completed capstone project must be submitted to the Director by the last day of classes in the student's final semester.
Since the application process can take several months, students interested in pursuing the Customized Major should contact the Director as early as possible in their academic career.
The Director will conduct an extensive intake interview with each prospective major, assess the applicant's academic history and interests, provide advice on the process of designing a Customized Major, and refer the student to faculty members who can provide field-specific advice regarding the selection and sequencing of courses into a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum.
The applicant will design an individualized plan of study in consultation with an Advisory Committee consisting of two or more faculty members from across the College. The application to the program should include:
The application should be submitted to the Customized Major Director for approval at least three semesters before the applicant's planned graduation date.
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|Arts Finance
|New Media Studies
|Chinese-American Studies
|Philosophy of Cognition
|Conflict Resolution Studies
|Postmodern Art and Literature
|Disability Studies
|Environmental Entrepreneurship
|Recreation Management
|Forensic Psychology
|Sociology of Mathematics Learning
|Globalization and Development
|Spanish Teaching
|Healthcare Marketing
|Sustainable Development
|International Business and French
|Urban Education
|Medical Ethics
|Visual Anthropology
|Middle Eastern Studies
|Water Studies
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Westminster graduates may choose to complete an additional major or minor after their graduation date and are allowed to use their same governing catalog as long as they stay continuously enrolled. Requirements must be completed within one year of their graduation date and students must meet all requirements in residence at Westminster. The student must notify the Registrar's Office of his or her intention to complete an additional major or minor.
The college offers an academic minor in most areas of instruction. Each instructional program lists specific minor requirements. Several majors require an accompanying minor. In lieu of a minor, students may support their majors with a broad variety of courses selected in consultation with their academic advisors.
A minimum 2.0 GPA is required for coursework used to fulfill requirements for an academic minor. Minimum GPA requirements are listed for each academic minor. Only grades of C- or better may be presented to satisfy minor requirements.
Courses that are required for both a major and a minor may be used to fulfill requirements for both the major and the minor, but elective courses may be used in either the major or the minor. The hours may be used only once.
In addition to the above-listed majors, the college offers minors in many of these areas plus minors only in Anthropology, French, Gender Studies, Paleontology, Political Science, and Religion.
Information about combining Gore School of Business majors and minors may be obtained from the Gore School of Business or the Office of the Registrar.
Students who have earned a bachelor's degree and are working toward a second bachelor's degree must complete a minimum of 36 credit hours at Westminster College beyond the first degree and must meet all degree requirements. Students may not complete two degrees concurrently. Students who already have earned a bachelor's degree are considered to have met liberal education and upper division hour requirements. Transfer students who have earned a bachelor's degree are automatically awarded 88 credit hours of transfer credit.
Nursing prerequisite courses need to be fulfilled by students with prior degrees. Individual evaluations of comparable coursework will be made by the nursing program.
Coordinator: Barbara Schulz Smith, Ph.D.
As part of Westminster's commitment to develop new models of teaching and learning, several interdisciplinary learning communities are available to first-year students. These interdisciplinary courses are designed to help students:
Learning communities at Westminster link two classes together with a common theme. Typically, at least one of the classes also fulfills a liberal education requirement. Sometimes, a course is paired with an INTR course which is a course designed for first-year students as a seminar class that focuses on issues of college life. The majority of learning community classes are designed for first-year students and are NOT upper division (300-level) credit.
Learning communities are taught primarily by full-time faculty members. This is one of the bonuses of learning communities. Students get to meet and interact with professors who have chosen to teach first-year students as part of their teaching responsibilities at Westminster.
If you entered Westminster during the Fall of 2006 (or after this date) as a first-year student, you will need to take at least one learning community during your first year here. These interdisciplinary classes vary widely on theme and topic areas. By way of example, learning community classes have included the pairing of Psychology and English Composition, Speech and Philosophy, Anthropology and the Arts, and Business and Statistics. Many additional choices are offered each semester. Current learning community (LC) class offerings are listed in the class schedule and on the Westminster Learning Community website.
Note: Students who do not pass one or both courses contained within a first-year learning community are not required to repeat the learning community experience but will be required to successfully pass any liberal education category represented by courses within the learning community.
Beginning in the Fall 2011 semester, all new full-time undergraduate students will be required to create an electronic portfolio via Foliotek that shows their achievement of the college-wide learning goals (CWLGs). All transfer students who come to Westminster with fewer than 60 hours of credit and enroll after Fall Semester 2012 will also be required to create a portfolio focused on the college-wide learning goals.
Westminster believes that this system of portfolios will deepen student understanding of the college's learning goals, help students integrate their learning from across the disciplines, help them see their academic and personal growth during their time at Westminster, and serve them in seeking employment or entrance to graduate school.
Student portfolios will include artifacts related to each learning goal. We encourage students to include artifacts from the curriculum and the co-curriculum. In addition, students will create a reflection essay for each learning goal that demonstrates how the artifacts are evidence of achievement of the goals.
Portfolios will be submitted twice during a student's time at Westminster—once at the end of the sophomore year and again at the mid-point of the senior year. The portfolio coordinator will ensure that all students have submitted portfolios in accordance with this schedule. Completion of the senior-level portfolio is a condition of graduation.
The sophomore portfolio is dedicated to orienting the student to the Westminster CWLGs and initiating the creation of a portfolio. Incoming students do this by demonstrating the portfolio competencies, developing their initial portfolio, and submitting it to the college. Within the first two semesters, students would be required to demonstrate portfolio competency. Students can do so in one of two ways: 1) attending an INTR 175 class in the spring semester of their first academic year at Westminster (1 credit semester-long seminar), designed to orient students toward the CWLGs and the portfolio process; or 2) by completing pre-approved activities related to the portfolio competencies such as workshops, online tutorials, multimedia studio work, or other activities. The INTR 175 courses are taught by faculty or staff with expertise in portfolios.
As students complete coursework and other campus experiences, they collect artifacts that demonstrate the CWLGs. Course syllabi assist the students in identifying artifacts deemed appropriate for the portfolio. Co-curricular activities that meet the CWLGs are also available for students. The portfolio contains the students' preferred artifacts along with a reflection on the significance of the artifacts in their learning development and a clear description of how the artifacts demonstrate their learning.
At some point before reaching junior status (60 credit hours), students must submit their portfolios to the portfolio coordinator.
The senior portfolio involves continued development relative to the CWLGs and/or the development of program-specific goals (when applicable). All students completing a degree program at Westminster College are required to submit a portfolio prior to graduation that demonstrates their learning relative to the CWLGs.
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|Year 1
|Learning community courses
LE courses--gathering artifacts
|INTR 175 or completion of approved activities to demonstrate portfolio competency
LE courses--developing portfolio
Year 2
|LE courses--continue development of portfolio
|LE courses
Major courses
Sophomore portfolio submitted by midterm
|Year 3
|Begin major program
Beginning Senior portfolio
|Major courses--developing portfolio
|Year 4
|Major courses--developing portfolio
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Change has come to the South Carolina High School League.
In the wake of the Goose Creek High School football saga and subsequent events, Gators football coach Chuck Reedy still can't believe that it took this long to have a more fair disciplinary process in the SCHSL.
"It's hard to believe the league has been in existence for 99 years, and it takes something like what happened to us in year 100 to come up with an equitable plan to deal with violations," Reedy said.
On Saturday at its annual meetings, the members of the league approved an amendment to its constitution, establishing levels of violations and corresponding penalties rather than doling out a one-size-fits-all style of punishment for violators.
Under the former disciplinary system, a team self-reporting a minor violation was subject to the same harsh penalty as one knowingly cheating and getting caught.
"There's a difference between speeding and killing somebody," Reedy said.
In Goose Creek's case this past fall, the Gators were removed from the playoffs and denied a shot at a state title repeat in Class AAAA Div. II after reporting a problem with paperwork involving a special education student in November. The student-athlete in question was then ruled ineligible by SCHSL commissioner Jerome Singleton and the Gators weren't allowed to go after another crown, leading to a tale that peaked this past weekend at the annual meetings.
The player participated in a total of 17 plays during five games, including the opening playoff victory against Conway, and never entered a contest the Gators weren't winning by at least 41 points. Two appeals in front of the league's executive committee produced no mercy for Goose Creek and it fired up droves of people across the state.
Local legislators got involved and applied pressure on the SCHSL to make a change. Bills advanced in the state House of Representatives and Senate that would place high school sports under the umbrella of the state Department of Education. Rep. Joe Daning is a co-sponsor of the House bill concerning the SCHSL.
"I'm not 100 percent happy … but we did get them to make some changes," Daning said. "I wanted them to fix themselves."
According to Daning, his proposed legislation will now be altered to incorporate the changes the SCHSL has offered, and would no longer place the organization under the state's control.
"We will codify the changes they made into law," Daning said. "Had they had these rules in place, Goose Creek would not have been eliminated from the playoffs. We may have helped some teams (in the future)."
There will now be four levels of violations: self-reported minor offense, non-reported minor violation, self-reported major violation, and non-reported major violations. Whether a team truly gained a competitive advantage will be weighed heavily from now on. Under this system, the Gators would have paid a $500 fine and been allowed to continue pursuit of their title.
"That's about what our penalty should have been," Reedy said. "In the future, this will prevent what happened to us from happening to somebody else. Our situation was such a high profile thing and got the attention of so many people. The threat of the state legislature doing something got everybody's attention."
The league also approved an 11-member appellate panel that would hear appeals if a school or student-athlete was not satisfied with a ruling by the league's executive committee. The panel will include a member from each of the state's seven congressional districts, three current coaches or athletic directors from member schools and a representative from the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.
Reedy said the annual meetings were well attended.
"I'm sure it was the largest turnout, maybe ever," he said. "Certainly there was a sense of desperation on the part of the league that we've got to make a change."
Other changes were not made, though. There is still no guaranteed geographic balance on the league's 18-member executive committee. A proposed amendment aimed at accomplishing that didn't receive the necessary votes. As it stands now, only two of the committee members are east of Interstate 95 and south of I-20, according to Reedy.
"Half the state has two reps and the other half has 16," Reedy said. "There is definitely some inequity there."
The only true Lowcountry member on the committee was Goose Creek High School Principal Jimmy Huskey, who was serving on an interim basis before losing his spot as the Class AAAA representative in an election with a member from Greenwood.
"There are still some changes that can be made," Reedy said. "I think we need it, but that's me speaking as an individual and not me speaking on behalf of everybody else."
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|New Morphological Paradigm Uncovered in Organic Solar Cells
Organic solar cells are made of light, flexible, renewable materials; they require simple and inexpensive processing steps and could produce an economically competitive and environmentally friendly energy source. Understanding the fundamentals of organic solar cell function is therefore vital to uncovering their maximum potential. Models describing critical device functions such as charge separation and transport often depend on simplistic morphological assumptions, including discrete interfaces between pure electron donor and acceptor materials. In contrast, recent spectroscopy and scattering studies conducted by North Carolina State University and Cambridge University researchers at ALS Beamlines 5.3.2 and 7.3.3 found a substantial amount of molecular mixing between model materials (polymers and fullerenes) currently used in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells. This suggests that the amorphous portions of these devices do not have pure domains, and the paradigm of device operation may need to be refined to accommodate this newly discovered complexity.
The absorption of a photon in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) results in a bound exciton (electron/hole pair) that must be separated into constituent charges quickly and subsequently transported to each electrode. An interface between donor and acceptor materials must, therefore, be near the site of absorption, and pathways to transport charge out of the device must be present.
The highest-performing devices were traditionally assumed to have a BHJ morphology, where each material is pure and confined to an interpenetrating network on a size scale small enough for charge separation but large and pure enough for efficient charge transport. However, current research endeavors to discover the potential of OPVs are turning to fundamental measurements to optimize the nanoscale morphology of the absorbing layer, comprising a donor and an acceptor material.
This study utilized poly(3-hexyl thiophene) (P3HT) as a donor polymer material, and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric-acid-methyl-ester (PCBM) as an acceptor fullerene. It revealed an absorbing layer containing an amorphous mixed phase in a significant volume fraction of the material (about one third), implying a very different morphological picture—and device function—than was previously believed. The film's morphology is likely composed of nanocrystals of pure polymer and relatively pure fullerene nano-agglomerates that are surrounded by a mixed liquid-like phase containing both materials, yielding a heterogeneous mixture of three phases rather than the two typically envisioned. The fact that quantum efficiency (electron out per incident photon) is high for this material system suggests that the actual morphology is advantageous for device function.
Many factors come into play in determining a solar cell's final morphology. Only by carefully considering each of their influences individually can these factors be properly exploited. One such fundamental property is the thermodynamic miscibility of the materials.
The thermodynamic miscibility of typical polymer–fullerene pair materials used in BHJ solar cells was quantitatively measured using a combination of near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM).
To make OPVs, films are spincast from a blend solution and annealed above the glass transition temperature (when amorphous polymers transition from a solid- to a liquid-like state) to allow for phase separation of the constituents. For this study, films were annealed at these temperatures for extended times and their state of thermodynamic equilibrium was confirmed via STXM imaging at key resonance energies individually sensitive to the two components. Subsequently, the quantitative composition was measured by acquiring NEXAFS spectra from locations in between large fullerene crystals and in thermodynamic equilibrium with the rest of the sample, which were then fit to spectra of the pure components. The crystallinity of the equilibrated samples was additionally studied using grazing-incidence wide-angle x-ray scattering (GIWAXS).
The surprising result is a large degree of mixing at the molecular level in the amorphous phases of the devices—a size scale smaller than was previously thought proper for obtaining good charge transport and high device efficiencies. Good molecular mixing may create an environment allowing both close proximity to a molecule of opposing species for charge separation, as well as connection to molecules of like species for charge transport to crystalline phases, and finally transport out of the device. The miscibility level measured here would allow for such a mode of device operation, and is now the potential target morphology for systems based on newly developed materials.
Researchers Brian Collins and Harald Ade.
Research conducted by B.A. Collins, E. Gann, L. Guignard, and H. Ade (North Carolina State University) and X. He and C.R. McNeill (University of Cambridge).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK). Operation of the ALS is supported by DOE BES.
Publication about this research: B.A. Collins, E. Gann, L. Guignard, X. He, C.R. McNeill, and H. Ade, "Molecular miscibility of polymer-fullerene blends," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 3160 (2010).
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The master's degree students at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies are a diverse and talented group of people. In addition to our local San Diegan students, we have students from across the United States, and all over the world.
Our students have had a variety of experiences before coming to the University of San Diego, including studying abroad, serving in the military, and working in non-profit and educational organizations.
Meet the Class of 2015, and Class of 2016.
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