Cliopatria

• Apr 30, 2005
  

  What is Wrong with Olivet Nazarene University ...

  by Cliopatria

  From time to time, we get complaints over here at Cliopatria from refugees from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois. They hang out over at The Weblog, where they think radical thoughts and have serious intellectual interests. Occasionally, they come over here to complain that some of the Cliopatriarchs are too conservative and that our critique of academic America hasn't honed in on Olivet
  

• Apr 29, 2005
  

  Another Approach to School Safety

  by Cliopatria

  The police didn't find the gun they were looking for in this lockdown of a New Mexico school, but perhaps the effort can be praised as part of the war against obesity.
  

• Apr 29, 2005
  

  9-11 at NC Wesleyan

  by Cliopatria

  From everything I've seen to date, including Scott Jaschik's Inside Higher Edpiece referenced by Ralph in his post below, I'm disturbed at the treatment SIU professor Jonathan Bean has received. Unless new information comes to light, this case seems to amount to an open letter denouncing Bean from eight colleagues and a formal rebuke from the dean (without consulting him about the issue but who now says she can't comment out of r
  

• Apr 29, 2005
  

  Noteworthy ...

  by Cliopatria

  Glenn Reynolds and Michael Silence are calling attention to this Gallop poll of American opinion. It asks: If you had 15 minutes with President Bush, what would you want to talk about? The top three responses: Iraq, the economy, and Social Security. If you scroll way down the list o
  

• Apr 28, 2005
  

  A boycott

  by Cliopatria

  I am a member of the Association of University Teachers. With many of my colleagues and union members, I am appalled by the vote taken at the AUT's Council meeting last week to call us to boycott two Israeli universities.
  
  This is an anti-semitic (if you don't understand why,

• Apr 28, 2005
  

  British Academics and Israel

  by Cliopatria

  For those who missed it, Alan Dershowitz and Effraim Karsh had effective rebuttals to the decision of the British Association for University Teachers to advocate a boycott of two Israeli universities, Haifa and Bar-Ilan, and support a mora
  

• Apr 28, 2005
  

  Some Noted Things ...

  by Cliopatria

  If you care for serious discussion, Scott McLemee interviews Christopher Phelps about his new edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in"Impure Literature."

  On the other hand, if you need something on the lighter side, Tim Dowling at the Guardian has a foretaste of Arianna Huffington's new megablog, The Huffington Post;

  

• Apr 28, 2005
  

  Carnival Updates

  by Cliopatria

  History Carnival #7 will go ahead as planned on Sunday 1 May at Studi Galileiani. Submissions (history posts since about 15 April) to Hugo Holbling: hugo AT galilean-library DOT org
  
  However, the carnival for early modernists (c.1500-1800), Carnivalesque, has been held back so as to give both host and readers a little breathing spac
  

• Apr 28, 2005
  

  To Lynch a Colleague ...

  by Cliopatria

  At the Southern Illinois University, Jonathan Bean is under siege from his history department colleagues. The story is told in the student newspaper, the Daily Egyptian. When he distributed James Lubinskas's article,"Remembering the Zebra Murders," from David Horowitz's Front Page Rag