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Written by Walter Pierce
Damn proud of my alma mater these days. Prouder than I've ever been of its success in athletics; prouder even than when I strutted out of the Cajundome with undergrad and graduate degrees from UL Lafayette in 1990 and '95.
In 1954 — the year of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court and nearly a decade before the violence over integration erupted on college campuses across the Deep South — Southwestern Louisiana Institute, an earlier iteration of UL Lafayette, became the first college in the state to integrate, and it did it peacefully, enrolling 80 black students.
I'm proud of that, too. But it was before my time.
Just as quietly as UL integrated 58 years ago, it began offering a minor in LGBT studies this past spring semester. That's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. You know, the last group of Americans that an unfortunately still-sizeable chunk of the public believes deserves second-class status. The gays.
Although UL is the first university in the state to offer LGBT studies as a minor, it's not the only state college to offer academic courses on gay culture. LSU offers several. The University of Louisville, George Mason University and the University of North Texas offer a minor in LGBT studies, as do other universities across the country. This isn't unique to UL.
The student newspaper, The Vermilion, published a story on the program July 3. KATC picked it up, other media began reporting it and, predictably, the story has caused no small amount of consternation among those for whom consternation is a cottage industry. This shouldn't be a big deal. But it is.
Louisiana Family Forum, of course, got its chastity belt all bunched up by the news, frothing and flailing its vestments in an urgently misleading e-alert to its members: "UL Lafayette yesterday became the first university in Louisiana to offer a 'minor' in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) studies. Proponents of the program say 'the goal of the new degree is to facilitate education and acceptance of the LGBT community.'"
One cannot receive a degree in a minor area of study. A minor is at most meant to enhance the major for which one receives a degree. Yet LFF repeatedly refers to LGBT studies as a degree program, insinuating, as have others, that university dollars are being put toward pushing the "gay agenda." That's not the case. Students can choose from scores of classes that are already offered at the university to satisfy the requirement of the minor — leftist offerings like American and British literature, history of religion, interpersonal communications and even dance. The gays are fabulous dancers.
Professors with misgivings can opt not to have their classes included in the minor.
U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry, South Louisiana's show pony of virtue, sent a letter to UL President Joe Savoie urging him to put the kibosh on the program: "As our nation continues to struggle with high unemployment, higher education's primary mission should be ensuring current and future students have the tools necessary to compete in the 21st century economy," Landry writes.
I'll go along with that. Wouldn't a sociologist or social worker familiar with the LGBT community, trained to understand and appreciate the discrimination and isolation our gay sons, daughters, cousins and neighbors still endure, make them better equipped to do their jobs? The Magic Hate Ball says yes.
A member of the conservative Values Action Team on Capitol Hill, Landry coincidentally has a younger brother who is an openly gay man living in New Orleans. Nicholas Landry doesn't share his sibling's perspective and Friday posted an open note to his brother on Facebook: "Ignorance is not education," the younger Landry writes in part. "Your constituents, heterosexual and homosexual alike, have made huge inroads in working towards equality in our community. By embracing diversity and acknowledging our differences, we gain understanding. Understanding is education."
Millard Mulé, Landry's communications director, didn't respond to an Ind email inquiring about the status of the Landry brothers' relationship. We imagine Thanksgivings are awkward.
Most troubling of all is the blow back from deep-pocketed alumni who are threatening to stop donating to the university. In an email to dozens of friends and colleagues obtained by The Ind, a prominent Lafayette businessman who is a major university benefactor makes his views painfully clear after receiving a routine solicitation letter from the alumni association: "I can't believe that our university that is nestled into such a conservative and Christian community, is going to take the lead amongst colleges and be in the forefront of pushing this agenda. UL is better than this and should be in the forefront of much bigger and better things. I am embarrassed to be a UL graduate today and have elected to throw this letter in the trash."
That's a pity.
Other alumni who have long financially supported the university are calling not only for a hasty end to the program but for the sociology professor who started it to be fired.
That's scary.
The coordinators of the program acknowledge that inclusion and acceptance of LGBT students on campus is a goal of the program. But this is first and most importantly about academics. And besides, most college kids don't share their grandparents' views on sexuality because, you know, computers and stuff.
There have long been curricula at universities across the country, many of which offer degrees, that grew out of the social and civil issues of their day. Women's and black studies owe their birth to Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement. UL also offers a minor in Cajun and Creole studies.
What these curricula have in common is academic study of groups that have been marginalized and suppressed. LGBT equality is the civil rights issue of our day. It deserves academic attention as much as the LGBT community deserves the same rights as women and blacks.
Most of us in Lafayette aren't inclined toward conniption when we see women step into voting booths or black people queue up at a cafeteria. This paroxysm, too, will pass. Get used to it, folks: the gays ain't going anywhere.
I'm proud UL's sociology department is taking the lead and equally proud the administration is supporting it. That's true academic freedom.
|UL President Joe Savoie
UL President Joe Savoie pointed out in his blog that LGBT-focused courses have been offered for a half century at nearly 200 universities around the country as he calmly and lucidly explained the rationale for LGBT studies: "Regardless of our personal feelings, as an academic institution, the university is obligated and committed to, within the law, the discovery and dissemination of knowledge, the protection of individual and group rights, and the preservation of religious and academic freedoms.
"Our desired posture is to be neither advocate nor adversary on controversial social issues of the day. Rather, our responsibility is to provide in an impartial manner an opportunity for investigation, analysis and understanding."
That's my university president.
Are there in-your-face, politically active gays and lesbians? Of course. G-stringed nancy boys in leather chaps gallivanting about in gay pride parades? Check. Louisiana Family Forum would have us believe that's the norm. But the vast majority of the LGBT community just wants to live quiet, productive lives, have rewarding work careers and relationships and enjoy the same rights, privileges and civil protections as the rest of us. That's their "agenda."
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OCT 24 You gotta love it when they start eating their young, right? In this post in Politico, BP mouthpiece Geoff Morrell denies that his company's oil spill "ruined the Gulf." Instead, he says, it was Bobby Jindal's decision to divert fresh water into the salt water environment that caused massive losses to shrimp and oyster industries. The evidence doesn't back up any claims that the spill caused that harm, he says. Nothing to see here, move along.
OCT 24 The former mayor of Sorrento was arrested on dozens of child pornography charges, a post on The Creole reports here. Wilson Longanecker Jr. was arrested in his Ascension Parish mansion, the blog reports.
OCT 24 As Bobby Jindal's tenure as governor winds down, blogger Tom Aswell tells us to expect to see more and more of his appointees jumping ship. Some might get shown the door (or the federal indictment, as the case may be) and others are just going to want to avoid standing in "the inevitable unemployment line," he says.
OCT 24 Jim Brown is blogging about elections in this post. There's no one more recognizable when it comes to elections than he is, and yet he still had to show his ID, you know. He gives some easy-to-remember advice on the Amendments: vote against them all. This stuff needs to be handled by legislators, not added to the Constitution, he says.
OCT 24 Bobby Jindal's recent "magical" budget touch - you know, the one that turned a $140 million deficit into a $170 million surplus - is just imaginary, columnist James Gill tells us in this post. It's about as real as that story he tells about the "gold standard" of ethics, Gill says.
OCT 24 George Carter III, a teenage member of the group Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, died this week, the Picayune reports here. Educators who knew him called him a "visionary." He certainly had some highly-developed ideas for his age, but despite his ability to provide positive ideas for helping kids in the city, in the end he wasn't able to escape NOLA's problems, either.
OCT 24 John Dickerson posts this slice-of-campaign-life look at Mary Landrieu on the trail in Louisiana. Republicans are playing to a runoff, he opines, meaning our state will become "a zoo" if it turns out this race will decide control of the Senate.
OCT 24 Bike lanes have been quite the topic of convo over in NOLA recently, what with streetspace, already at a premium downtown, being sacrified for them. In this post on the Uptown Messenger blog, Owen Courreges opines that the lanes are not really being constructed for people who ride bikes, but instead because developers seeking to make money downtown feel they are needed. He's also predicting that they will increase already nightmarish levels of traffic to new heights. Nah -- that couldn't happen!
OCT 23 Blogger Tom Aswell posts the photo that started making the rounds of the Facebook this week; it shows our governor and his lovely bride, all bright and smiley and holding big guns. The Jindals look a little posed, down to their carefully and properly placed index fingers. They're both grinning wide, displaying how comfortable they are with weaponry. Whee!
OCT 23 This fascinating post on The Lens opens the discussion of New Orleans as subject. C. W. Cannon talks about the concept of dual consciousness and how New Orleanians, especially, have experienced this condition post-Katrina. Cannon attended a recent conference about the issue at Tulane, where the discussion focused on how the romanticization of the city by outsiders masks real social problems.
OCT 23 Bayou Buzz is taking Gov. Bobby Jindal and the GOP to task here for the Ebola shrieking. The so-called "travel ban" makes no sense, and these politicians should have done their homework before coming up with this stunt, Stephen Sabludowsky writes.


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we have the DVR programed already.
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To see Bobodurur in person is extremly impressive. It is the oldest meaningful Hindu temple. The Mt. Merapi volcano eruption last spring that unfortunately killed some people and discolcated 50,000 people sent ash out 30 miles and a good deal on Bobodurur. Unesco is still in the process of cleaning up several areas in addition to repairing some of the reliefs. This is an 8th Century temple if my memory serves me right. We were there 2 months before the eruption.
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Borobudur is a Buddhist monument, the largest Buddhist monument in the world. It isn't a temple - you can't enter it, you climb it. Nor is it the oldest. But it is a wonderfully moving place to visit.
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It's a shame that they don't even get the time to take it all in (seems like they never do, no matter where they go on The Amazing Race.) I'd love to go on that show with my better half but I fear we might kill each other from the stress/pressure/competitiveness.
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Next on the Amazing Race will be Thailand. I like the show because you get to see many different sights in different countries. Such as the temple - Borobudur- which I find more interesting than Angkor Wat.
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Did anyone watch tonight's episode in time to see most of the teams butcher the pronunciation of Phuket? Bucket? Pucket? Well, I guess we can count our lucky stars they didn't use the 'F' version.
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How to Really Disrupt the Retail Energy Market With Solar Energy
Shayle Kann, SVP of Research at GTM, presented on solar's disruption of the wholesale energy market in Germany and the U.S. at the kickoff of the GTM Solar Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. It's an important presentation, and you can view it here.
But the next section of his presentation really connects the dots between the growth in solar and DG and the looming existential threat to utilities.
How to disrupt a retail energy market
Step one for disruption is to install a lot of solar.
The following slide shows the phenomenal growth in residential and commercial solar, along with the 1.9 gigawatts of distributed solar installed in 2013.
But here's the kicker: that 1.9 gigawatts of solar, which is producing 2.7 million megawatt-hours, accounts for only 0.04 percent of national electricity demand. Why would utilities be impacted or worried by that small sliver of solar?
Kann next turned his attention to the top solar states -- perhaps the situation looks different there.
The U.S. market is still very concentrated, with the top seven states accounting for 88 percent of the market. But, with the exception of Hawaii, which remains an outlier in almost every case, even the top solar states, including California, satisfy very little of their overall load with PV.
Kann switches gears here. He suggests that we stop looking at total electrical generation.
He notes that utilities have historically made their money from load growth. But load growth has fallen steadily since 1950, and going forward, the EIA sees 1 percent load growth for the next 30 years. Except for Hawaii.
That 1 percent average applies to the top solar states as well. Except for Hawaii.
Through this lens, distributed solar's impact on 2013 load growth is already being felt. California, Colorado and Massachusetts all saw their load growth cut in half by distributed solar.
Looking forward to 2016, Kann makes what he calls "conservative" growth estimates for distributed solar.
And based on those conservative forecasts, 2016 demand growth looks even more stark for utilities. He said, "You could see negative demand growth in California and almost [the same situation] in New Jersey."
"If you are a utility, this is potentially disruptive and very meaningful," he added.
Kann asked, "If you worked for a Hawaiian utility, wouldn't you be terrified?"
The last slide shows California retail electricity sales that have been and will soon be lost to solar.
"At its most destructive, you could call this the 'utility death spiral,'" particularly for an industry accustomed to recovering fixed costs through rates over 30 years.
In the face of a utility disruption of unknown consequence, Kann suggested that the solar industry needs to foster this disruption by building a sustainable business, saying, "We want to have a solar market in 30 years."
Instead of focusing solely on near-term buildup, Kann said, "We need to maintain a long-term view."
Confronted with the possibility of increasing numbers of wealthier people opting for solar or even potentially disconnecting from the grid, Kann added, "We need to maintain a strong eye toward equitable growth."
"The last thing we want to do is create an energy divide."
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Bob Bingham says:
I put in solar panels and I no longer pay $2000 to the electricity company. Five of my freinds have done the sam and the solar instalers are going flat out. If you put this together with more efficient applianses it is no wonder electicity sales are static. The electricity generaters should be going after the transport market which is poweres by a diminishing resorce which has a volatile price.
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The question is "How to Really Disrupt the Retail Energy Market With Solar Energy"
The answer is, more solar mandates, more solar feed in tariffs, more solar rebates, more solar tax deductions, anything that disrupts free market decision making.
We really need more government involving itself more deeply into every detail of our lives. Government could disrupt the construction industry by requiring each city to build a pyramid that contains 100 tons of rock for each citizen. It could require the auto industry to go back to building cars by hand. It could raise the minimum wage to $60/hr.
Think of all the new jobs that would be created, unemployment would be eliminated, everyone would be making at least $120,000 per year, the increase in income tax revenues would be staggering, we can pay off the national debt in no time.
Bring it on, more government, more disruption, that's the answer!
John NIchols says:"...only 0.04 percent of national electricity demand. Why would utilities be impacted or worried by that small sliver of solar"? Why worry? Five reasons, one, solar adds almost nothing to capacity. Two, distributed energy deprives the utilities of necessary income to support the grid because they use volumetric pricing, based on supply, to earn revenue. Three, the loss of revenue, requires more frequent rate cases that increase distribution costs for everyone- except distributed energy suppliers. Four, the demand curve better start going up, or America will have no chance to meet its financial obligation, which includes 17 trillion in current debt, and 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Lastly, the jobs lost due to the rising cost of supply and distribution are never replaced by subsidized so-called green jobs - never. My question is "Why should distributed energy be allowed to have a "free-ride", since it offers no societal benefits, and it outsources pollution to emerging economies"?
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Well, I suppose before step 1 mentioned in this article, you need step 0: maintain accommodative policies which overvalue DG. As DG cuts into demand growth we can expect increasing pushback from utilities to get solar owners to pay fair value to the utility for the current free balancing services they receive. In places such as California where utility scale solar is starting to make significant contributions, the high correlation of DG output to much more economical utility scale PV generation will further reduce the value of DG (e.g. the duck chart).
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Another factor to consider in the actual impacts of increased solar PV installations are the average net generation capacity factors. Average solar PV capacity factors vary from the low 20% range in sunnier states such as Arizona, California and Hawaii, and down to about 10% in less sunny states including New Jersey and Massachusetts. Colorado is somewhere in between. This performance factor directionally makes new solar PV power generation capacity less expensive in south western states vs. north eastern states.
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17.552 / 17.551 Political Economy of Chinese Reform
This course focuses on China's transition from plan to market. What has the trajectory of institutional change in China been, and how has growth been achieved? Is that growth sustainable? Subject examines specific aspects of reform (enterprise, fiscal, financial, social welfare), and the systemic consequences of interaction between various reform measures. Additional topics include the interaction between political and economic change, the transformation of state-society relations, and the... More
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Illinois Prisoner Population Sets New Record
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The population at the Illinois Department of Corrections has reached a new high.
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The population at the Illinois Department of Corrections has reached a new high.
By Jeff Bossert
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar says he's sympathetic to current Governor Pat Quinn when it comes to state finances.
By Sean Powers
Some local law enforcement agencies hold non-citizen prisoners on behalf of federal immigration officials. That gives immigration officials time to decide if the prisoner should be transferred to a detention facility and possibly deported. The agreement is designed to help crack down on hardened criminals, but there are concerns that it may go too far.
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A federal appeals court in Chicago has refused a request by imprisoned former Ill. Gov. George Ryan that all the court's judges rehear his appeal seeking an earlier release from prison.
By Tim Lloyd
On Monday, the Illinois Supreme Court will enter orders to allow cameras in both the first judicial circuit in the southern part of the state and the 18th circuit, which is outside of Chicago.
By Jim Meadows
On Thursday night, the Champaign County Board approved a consultant to study whether the county may need additional jail space. The Berkley, California-based Institute for Law and Public Policy Planning was chosen on a 15-to 12 party-line vote, with Democrats prevailing.
By The Associated Press
The search for more victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has led to authorities solving an unrelated cold case linked to central Illinois.
By Jeff Bossert
Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford says a report calling the state prison population the highest ever should be enough to end a call for closing two of them.
By Jennifer Fuller
The FBI and SIUC Police are investigating after a threat was received through the mail around midnight on Tuesday evening.
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The number of people locked up in Illinois prisons has hit an all-time high while Gov. Pat Quinn battles with state employees over closing several correctional facilities.


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Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S. hospitals during a two-year period, according to a new study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
A team of researchers from Chartis, Main Line Health System, Lexington Insurance Company, and APIC Consulting Services collected survey responses from 822 APIC members who work in U.S. hospitals regarding outbreak investigations at their institutions during 2008 and 2009. The study was conducted to determine how often outbreak investigations are initiated in U.S. hospitals, as well as the triggers for investigations, types of organisms, and control measures including unit closures.
Thirty-five percent of the 822 hospitals responding had investigated at least one outbreak in the previous two years. Four organisms caused nearly 60 percent of the outbreaks: norovirus (18.2 percent), Staphylococcus aureus (17.5 percent), Acinetobacter spp (13.7 percent), and Clostridium difficile (10.3 percent). These results reflect 386 outbreak investigations reported by 289 hospitals over a 24-month period.
Medical/surgical units were the most common location of outbreak investigations (25.7 percent), followed by surgical units (13.9 percent). Nearly one-third (29.2 percent) of outbreaks were reported in a category that included emergency departments, rehabilitation units, long-term acute care hospitals, psychiatric/behavioral health units, and skilled nursing facilities. According to the results, the average number of confirmed cases per outbreak was 10.1 and the average duration was 58.4 days. Unit closures were reported in 22.6 percent of the cases, causing an average 16.7 bed closures for 8.3 days.
Of reported outbreaks, only 132 (52.2 percent) of investigations were reported to an external agency, with just 71 (28.4 percent) involving assistance in the investigation by an external resource. In most states, reporting to the state health department is required and can provide hospitals with expertise to expedite and expand their outbreak investigations.
"It is clear that outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections occur with some frequency in hospitals as well as nonacute settings," state the authors. "An infection prevention and control program and its staff should be prepared for all aspects of an outbreak investigation through written policies and procedures as well as communication with internal and external partners."
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Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart".
Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics, say Harvey Rubin and Nicholas Saidel
As researchers from Africa to China to America race to develop vaccines and treatments to fight Ebola, health experts are grappling with the economics of a disease that until this year had been off the drug industry's radar.
Is California's severe drought hurting the nutrient content of fruit? No, preliminary data on pomegranates suggest. The fruit may be smaller, but packed with more antioxidants, tests show.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued warning letters to companies marketing products claimed to be cures for Ebola. One firm says it will drop such claims — but it's still selling the product.
Parents of baby with fatal mitochondrial disease say techniques being considered by select committee could prevent them having another seriously ill child
Ultrasound has been used to open the brain's protective sheath in people with aggressive brain tumours – to deliver chemo drugs directly to cancer cells
The World Health Organization says two vaccine candidates now undergoing small-scale tests of dosage and safety in people might be ready for broader deployment in Africa by early 2015.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple unveiled a thinner iPad Thursday with a faster processor and a better camera as it tries to drive excitement for tablets amid slowing demand. The company also released an update to its Mac operating system and introduced a high-resolution iMac model that might appeal to heavy watchers of television over the Internet.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Next year HBO is cutting the cord and selling its popular streaming video service HBO Go as a stand-alone product, as more Americans choose to watch the Web, not the TV. Viewers longing to watch "Game of Thrones", "True Detective" and "Veep" will no longer have to pay big bucks for cable and satellite contracts. Is this the end of pay-TV as we know it?
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Slice through objects in each level to cause all the red blocks to fall off the screen while all the green blocks stay on the screen.
Travel up and down the elevator as you interact with each floor to find hidden toys for each one of the monkeys.
Complete all the patterns in each level by using the marbles given to you on the table.
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