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3 wheels would have been better, but everyone knew this would happen.

oh i could spend hours listening to these. I think they need a northern pennsylvania accent, someone from sullivan or bradford counties, because it is much different from the pittsburg accent.

I've just submitted my last course request that I will need to submit in a while (you never know). It was for my last 6 credits of research and dissertation for my dissertation. This means that I expect to finish this degree this spring.

Let's see, i started taking classes in my ph.d. in the spring of 2001 and if i finish in the spring of 2004, that is spring 2001, 2001-2002 year, 2002-2003 year, 2003-2004 year. 3.5 years of part-time study, working 40 hours a week or so. that really should be considered good, i think.

the bankruptcy trustee of lingua franca is demanding tha authors give back the money they were paid for the work they performed or else… to me, this seems silly, now i can see that there are 'secured interests' but they have to fight over the money that's left, not the money that's gone. people get paid to do their job, once they are paid, that is that. Mr. Geltzer, the trustee, needs to learn that capitalism has ethics.

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• Virginia levied the fourth-largest cut in the nation of higher-education spending during the past two years, slashing college budgets by 17.8 percent.

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• The annual funding shortfall for all public colleges, as calculated by state officials, has doubled since 2000 to roughly $400 million .

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• Average faculty salaries at many schools are in the bottom third of their nationwide peers.

Everybody Googles Everybody. Well, not quite everybody. Not quite yet. But people do google people. This came up in the infamous MLA thread, where an Anonymous Member of a Job Search Committee warned: I'll be interviewing people at MLA, and, trust me, we've… [Invisible Adjunct]