Getting caught with your hands in the cookie jar
One university president in the U.S. is repaying a $300,000 “bonus” after the state attorney general started looking into the payment.…
Look debate
For those of you who are tired of commenting on my writing (and/or poor grammar / spelling), Andrew Davis started a net neutrality debate today.…
PostYourTest.com – lets you do just that
Recently, lots of ink is getting devoted to new site PostYourTest.com in the American college press. The Penn State Daily Collegian is the latest paper to write about the site. Most of the stories are focusing on the “ethical debate” surrounding the site. I don’t see much need…
Reading Material: UOttawa president Allan Rock’s contract
I have to step out for an hour or two, so I won’t be able to process this until later this afternoon. For those of you interested, the University of Ottawa posted their new presidential contract for Allan Rock on their website this morning. Correction: This contract is…
TVOntario upgrading internet video player
This is exciting news for those of us who don’t watch television, preferring to get our programming over the tubes. TVOntario, the province’s publicly funded broadcaster, will be using Brightcove’s internet platform to offer better video-on-demand options. This according to a news release sent out this morning. I’m…
More updates to the contract chart
Just updated the presidential chart……
Hate crime at McMaster? I don’t believe so.
Hamilton Community Newspapers (a division of Metroland) ran a story last week entitled “Hate crime investigation up to attorney general” which follows up the so-called “free speech rally” at McMaster University in the winter. The key passage in this article was the statement by the Hamilton Police Service…
MSM inspired by students
We in the “Mainstream media” are somethings pack animals. This week, The Record follows The Cord Weekly. (For the record, I had the same idea upon reading the article in the student press and will likely “nationalize” the story in the near future.)…
More Spectator coverage of presidential contracts
The Hamilton Spectator ran multiple stories on presidential contract this past weekend. Here are the links:Universities to pay $8m to outgoing presidents The fight for contract details They also printed a beautiful chart comparing the contracts:http://media.hamiltonspectator.com/acrobat/7a/13/47d8f4424c6e98f77864f1a40ba6.pdf…
Bureaucratic red-tape results in student not recieving public health insurance
A recent Wilfrid Laurier graduate is unable to get public health insurance in Ontario due to bureaucratic red-tape resulting from a discrepancy between changed federal work-permit regulations and unchanged provincial public health insurance regulations, according to a report in The Record this morning.…