Registering students will line the long hall, looking for a light at the end of the tunnel. Instead, at the end, they will fall into a dark abyss of anachronism known as the Hillsdale College registration process. The way Hillsdale students register harkens back to the primitive days before the Internet advent. (0) comments
Mr. Thompson, from whence springs such vitriol? You accuse us of being out of touch with the class, yet you fail to attend class meetings or contribute, either through e-mail or direct contact, to the representative sample from which we work. How can we know what you want when we hear nothing from you until the plan is already in motion? You attack our proposal yet offer no alternative. (5) comments
One more reason to move to New Zealand: A California appeals court ruled two weeks ago that parents without teaching credentials cannot home-school. One hundred sixty-six thousand home schooled children and their parents now face contempt of court charges, jail and fines. (0) comments
Interoffice dating has always been a taboo. Whether your boss takes you aside on your first day and informs you of this or whether you read it in the small print in the middle of your contract, you get the impression that it is not a good idea. But then you see him. (2) comments
The Registration Week fight-to-the-death has begun. The war instinct arises - deprived of an actual battle ground and actual weapons, we fight in offices and the dining hall, armed with nothing more than our wits and transferred credits. The registrar's office becomes a battleground; Delp Hall, a refuge for professors. (0) comments