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What is the Future of Higher Education at Rutgers?

Faculty write to President Barchi to express their concerns.

Rebranding the University in the Age of Willful Self-Incrimination: Rutgersfest, Delafest, and the Big Dudfest

Was it really just two years ago that everyone hooked into the Rutgers Emergency Alert System (upwards of 40,000 students, faculty, and staff)...

Good Enough For Rutgers: President Barchi Aims at Foot, Blows Off Head

Did you catch that news conference Friday? The one following the firing of RU men’s basketball coach Mike Rice and the resignations of RU...

The Video Will Out: Reflections on the Mike Rice Debacle

So, Rutgers is in the news again. And again the story involves students, abuse, and video. This time, though, the story has some additional spice:...

Kountze in the News: Effing the Ineffable (An East Texas Revery)

So, here’s the set-up. It’s Friday Night in the small East Texas town of Kountze. And Friday Night means football. It’s fall,...

Into the Archive

I love this picture of my dad at work in his study, hunched over, pounding out another story on his favorite manual, which was heavy enough to serve...

Cut and Paste Reportage: The Rise of “Whatever Journalism”

My last post presented a case study of how print news reports on plagiarism in the university. In this post, I want to reverse the poles: a student...

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