Ivy League university faces lawsuit over handling of sexual assault allegations
Brown University is facing a lawsuit stemming from a rape allegation in 2006. *The Associated Press* report is available online. Depending what occurs as the lawsuit moves forward, the case could result in changes to how universities deal with serious *criminal *accusations within their campuses. Many universities, including…
Email server problems – again
I’m having difficulties with my email server again today and I’m trying to resolve them. At the present time, some emails have been delayed up to four hours getting to me. I probably should’ve invested in a better web hosting service.…
CAUT lifts censure of FNUC
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has voted unanimously to lift its censure of the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) in response to governance changes the University implemented in February. The changes were finally begun after both the provincial and federal governments cut funding to the…
The new Facebook like feature
I’ve quickly updated my website design this evening to include the Facebook like feature to each of my posts. It took less than a minute thanks to this informative post I found via @BlogHighEd (http://www.bloghighed.org/)…
Maclean's Urback is wrong to attack Queen's president
In her last commentary for *Maclean’s OnCampus, *Robyn Urback goes after Queen’s University president Daniel Wolfe.” Urback writes “‘paternalism’ is the new “freedom of thought’” at Queen’s. What grave offence against civilization has Dr. Wolfe committed to earn the scorn of *Maclean’s *star blogger? He announced a five…
Reading my archives…
I’m reading the archives of my blog today as I prepare an application for a summer position I’m applying to. Sigh, a lot of things I wish I never wrote in the early days of the blog and other things I now laugh about. This line really jumped…
What should government info cost?
Janet Steffenhagen, the education reporter for The Vancouver Sun, notes a report by the B.C. School Trustees’ Association calling for more leeway to charge Freedom-of-Information applicants for the full costs of their requests. My response to the report is simple: start making raw data available on the Internet…
Another resignation, another round of questions
University of Calgary Graduate Students’ Association president Veronique Dorais-Ram [**resigned**](http://thegauntlet.ca/story/14425) last week, soon after a successful referendum to leave the Canadian Federation of Students. No reasons have been publicly stated for the resignation which was submitted during an in-camera meeting of the GSA council. There are questions surrounding…
Thoughts on the CFS referendum at uGuelph
Students at the University of Guelph will vote starting later today on their membership in the Canadian Federation of Students. The vote follows a court order which was required after the Canadian Federation of Students stonewalled students at Guelph in order to prevent the vote from occurring. A couple…
Stern Iron Man pinball
Stern’s next pinball machine is Iron Man and there is a video of a final product now on the Tubes: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md3U4EP3I3A It looks like it will be an enjoyable game, much like Spiderman was. I’m excited by the raising target feature.…