Nietzsche, alcoholic beverages

these are just weird

There’s a pertinent Friedrich Nietzsche parable about a ‘madman’ who comes into a town square holding a lighted lantern declaring to the town that he has important news. He tells his story and the people laugh and berate him in disbelief, throwing stones to drive him off. Finally he gives up saying, ‘I have come too soon’’. He drops the lantern, the light goes out, and he departs.

I wondered if my idea of globalization for American Craft too had also come soon.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/09/08/lagunitas_founder_sells_half_his_beloved_craft_brewery_to_heineken_explains.html



Amor Fati wine:
http://www.rmvineyards.com/index.cfm?method=storeproducts.showlist&isMarketingURL=1&productcategoryid=82ccefe7-be78-4a85-b395-efb6fedb32ad

news roundup

Brown Bag lunch announcement coming soon, no doubt. Until then, here are some stories.


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/welfare-reform-americas-poorest/403960/


http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/sep/07/school-segregation-black-latino-students-race


http://fusion.net/story/192436/cooper-union-endowment-tragedy-betrayed-legacy/

innovative but difficult

from Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46:2, p. 272:

"Robert Guay's chapter, 'Order of Rank,' perhaps the most innovative, if difficult, contribution ..."

following the footstep of failed k12 policies

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/higher-education-following-k-12-failed-policy


same author:
the corporate university:
http://logosjournal.com/issue_4.4/schultz.htm
collapsing business plan of higher education:
http://logosjournal.com/2012/spring-summer_schultz/

Confirm your enrollment

(I think the blank space is supposed to say "this Friday" or something like that)

Student Records asks all faculty and academic departments to remind students to confirm their enrollment for fall 2015 – a requirement for ALL undergraduate and graduate students.

Students who intend to graduate this semester have the opportunity to submit their Application for Degree simultaneously while confirming their enrollment.

If students do not confirm enrollment via BU BRAIN Self Service by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, they will be dropped from all their fall courses. Relaying this information to students will help prevent additional changes to your student roster and reduce the number of students who visit the academic advising departments and dean’s offices to petition re-entry to a course.

they must have meant 'the best'

happy first day of fall semester!

post-orientation miscellany (not SPEL related)

Orientation was yesterday. I should have posted about that, but instead, here are some academic problems in other disciplines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html


http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/08/today-in-campus-political-correctness-and-the-progressive-war-on-free-speech