Couple of things
- Yesterday, I picked up some random email that featured the oddest endorsement of Charlie Maddox I've seen yet.
- OK, this is one of the most unusual non-issues the University of Georgia has on its plate right now ... and they've wrestled with it for a while now. I can logically see why faculty wouldn't want to have a fall break (i.e. it disrupts their class schedule and puts them behind on their lessons), but at the same time can they see that merely postponing the start of the fall semester by two days and eliminating the fall break is ridiculous? A break is just that ... a break. It's something designed to get everyone rested and renewed, and I think it's a good plan. As far as the moving it from the Georgia-Florida weekend ... why bother. Back when I was in school under the good, old quarters system, 3/4 of the student body skipped and most of the classes were cancelled anyway. Having this break during that weekend is just efficient for all involved. If the university thinks for one second that not having fall break that weekend means kids are going to buckle down in their studies that particular weekend, than they're sadly mistaken.
- Not that it's shocking, but the family-friendly zone are vacant, and the article includes a shout-out to Paul Westerdawg's video.
Wouldn't it make sense to perhaps shrink down the size of these venues and make them more fun zones for children? It seems to me the main thing being utilized are the inflatable structures, so let kids play on that and cut the family-friendly zones down in size.
- Hey, you stay classy Chi Phi ... doing a bang-up job with reinforcing that Greek stereotype.
- The local boys have done good!
- I watched the premiere of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip last night and, like most Aaron Sorkin shows, it was incredibly well-written and well-directed. The characters were funny, complex and all in all, it was a nice job. My only concern ... why am I going to devote so much time to watching a program about running a comedy sketch show?
- I go away for a weekend and Hillary
pens a column for the Athens Banner-Herald.
- Uh ... we get a 'How Athens Works' lesson from States McCarter ... and it's kinda oddly timed and pretty random.
- OK, this is one of the most unusual non-issues the University of Georgia has on its plate right now ... and they've wrestled with it for a while now. I can logically see why faculty wouldn't want to have a fall break (i.e. it disrupts their class schedule and puts them behind on their lessons), but at the same time can they see that merely postponing the start of the fall semester by two days and eliminating the fall break is ridiculous? A break is just that ... a break. It's something designed to get everyone rested and renewed, and I think it's a good plan. As far as the moving it from the Georgia-Florida weekend ... why bother. Back when I was in school under the good, old quarters system, 3/4 of the student body skipped and most of the classes were cancelled anyway. Having this break during that weekend is just efficient for all involved. If the university thinks for one second that not having fall break that weekend means kids are going to buckle down in their studies that particular weekend, than they're sadly mistaken.
- Not that it's shocking, but the family-friendly zone are vacant, and the article includes a shout-out to Paul Westerdawg's video.
Wouldn't it make sense to perhaps shrink down the size of these venues and make them more fun zones for children? It seems to me the main thing being utilized are the inflatable structures, so let kids play on that and cut the family-friendly zones down in size.
- Hey, you stay classy Chi Phi ... doing a bang-up job with reinforcing that Greek stereotype.
- The local boys have done good!
- I watched the premiere of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip last night and, like most Aaron Sorkin shows, it was incredibly well-written and well-directed. The characters were funny, complex and all in all, it was a nice job. My only concern ... why am I going to devote so much time to watching a program about running a comedy sketch show?
- I go away for a weekend and Hillary
pens a column for the Athens Banner-Herald.
- Uh ... we get a 'How Athens Works' lesson from States McCarter ... and it's kinda oddly timed and pretty random.
posted by Jmac at 6:58 AM
8 Comments:
Re: Studio 60, as my wife succincly put it, "I saw that show two years ago, when it was called West Wing." Seriously, what qualifications does Josh Lyman have to direct movies or a TV show?They couldn't even choose a new font for the opening credits? I'm just happy that I didn't watch the last season of West Wing, so I'm not suffering from Sorkin/Schlamme/Whitford fatigue.
All of that said, the dialogue alone makes it worth watching (yeah, word geeks!).
Darren
Left out the "t" in succinctly. Sheesh!
Darren
I caught the font thing too.
Though I do love Bradley Whitford, so it was entertaining to see him in a new role ... though his new role is a lot like his old role. Plus it has that random dude from Wings.
Steven Weber.
Darren
What is so egregiously horrible about what the Chi Phi people did? It's not like they were out there showing naked pictures of Heidi Davison, causing people to go blind or turn to stone.
It's COLLEGE for heavens' sake. And testosterone filled college boys will do things like this. GET OVER IT.
While I wouldn't say I'd be offended by the actions of the Chi Phi pledges, I can definitely see where they're completely inappropriate and are worthy of discipline (as, to be fair, the Chi Phi president noted to The Red & Black).
However, Chuck do you not see the oddity in you - a self-confessed Christian conservative - excusing a group of college students displaying pornography to passerbys?
People should expect "inappropriate" things from college kids. It is unreasonable to expect a group of horny college boys to behave like Miss Manners, walking around with white gloves, tipping their hats and saying things like "I say! I say! What a smashing ascot you have there, your lordship!" "Why thank you, your grace!"
Being a Christian conservative does not necessarily mean that you have a stick up your ass. I am one of those who does not have a stick therein.
People should expect "inappropriate" things from college kids.
Way to keep raising that bar.
College kids should be smart enough, however, to not get caught.
Anyway, hand wringing & fun police memebers of the UGA faculty have been trying to get rid of Fall Break before we even had a Fall Break. Last time they brought this up, SGA presented a petition with about 5,000 signatures on it, and almost 200 students showed up at the University Council meeting and scared the milquetoast faculty into keeping Fall Break. The real and mature faculty - you know, the ones who had lives - were with us, because they were cool with a Fall Break, too.
Here's hoping the student body can repeat history and keep Fall Break right where it belongs.
In other words, the Fraternity Pledges have more important things to be doing right now (getting names on petitions, fighting the fun police, and securing the freedom of Fall Break) than playing with nudie pictures like 10 year olds.
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