University is the best days of my life.
The University of Wisconsin has an obligation to hire responsibly, but it also has an obligation to defend the academic freedom, not to mention the First Amendment rights, of those it does hire.
After some hemming and hawing, UW did meet its second obligation. But it does not seem to have met the first one. Barrett was the only candidate for the job, and his principal qualification seemed to be that he had gone to graduate school at UW and had once TA’d for the course in question;
The number of students graduating each year with 2 ‘A’ and 2 ‘AO’ passes (including GP) has been hovering around the 10,000 mark between 1991 and 2004. Since Pre-U enrollment for the same period has been fairly consistent we can expect that for 2005, there can’t be that many more than 10,000+ graduating with the same qualifications.
HJ says: “Please feel free to add this link to your sites. However, it has been created with a program written here on site and I can not guarantee how far into the future the link will remain active. The Information Literacy Program here at ANU is an across campus program.”
Late Thursday night/early Friday morning Lisa and I were driving back home from Raleigh. We wound up going through Elon University, where I went to college. I stopped and took a few pictures, although they really can’t do any justice to how beautiful the campus is lit up every Christmas season.