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School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Patricia G. McNeely, M.A., University of South Carolina, 1975
Eleanor M. and Frank R. Mundy Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications
Henry T. Price, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1972
M. Kent Sidel, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1976
Lowndes F. Stephens, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1975
J. Rion McKissick Professor of Journalism
Associate Professors
Kenneth Campbell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1990
Erik L. Collins, Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1972; J.D., Ohio State University, 1977
Elizabeth B. Dickey, M.A., University of South Carolina, 1978
Bonnie L. Drewniany, M.B.A., Rutgers University, 1981
Sonya F. Duhé, Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1993
Keith R. Kenney, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1991
Bruce E. Konkle, Ed.D., University of South Carolina, 1996
Vance L. Kornegay, M.M.C., University of South Carolina, 1988
Jon P. Wardrip, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1979
Ernest L. Wiggins, M.A., University of South Carolina, 1992
Lynn M. Zoch, Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1993
Assistant Professors
Scott J. Farrand, B.F.A., University of South Carolina, 1979
Cecile S. Holmes, M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994
Richard S. Peterson, M.S., Northwestern University, 1980
David Scott, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1999
Juliann Sivulka, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1997
Ran Wei, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995
Michael Witkoski, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1983
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications offers the Master of Arts, Master of Mass Communication, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Within the M.M.C. program, students may elect an area of study in integrated communications or newspaper leadership. There are no separate departments, as such, within the school, although course work is offered in electronic and print journalism, advertising, public relations, integrated communications, and a wide range of other subjects dealing with the processes and effects of mass communications.
The general regulations of The Graduate School regarding admission, residency, theses and dissertations, admission to candidacy, and comprehensive examinations apply to all graduate work in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Beyond that, the school may request additional writing samples or other evidence of creative work.
Graduate study at the M.A., M.M.C., and Ph.D. levels in the school is designed to meet the needs of three categories of students:
1. graduates in journalism and mass communications from accredited programs of journalism and mass communciations and graduates of approved colleges or universities who have received a bachelor's degree in any field and who have one or more years of professional experience in journalism and mass communications;
2. graduates of approved colleges and universities who have little or no undergraduate work in journalism and mass communications but desire to complete a program of intensive academic and professional preparation for work in the mass communications field;
3. graduates of approved master's degree programs who have two or more years of professional experience in journalism and mass communciations and who wish to obtain a doctoral degree.
Proficiency examinations may be required of applicants. Any deficiencies in an applicant's academic or professional background for the study of journalism and mass communications may require remedial course work that may not count toward the graduate degree.
Applicants for a graduate degree in journalism and mass communications who do not have professional experience or educational background for the field may be required to complete up to 15 semester hours of undergraduate work in journalism and mass communications. Each applicant's case will be evaluated individually to determine the amount, if any, of remedial work required. These remedial courses are usually designated as prerequisites for more advanced courses, numbered 500 or above, which will become part of the student's plan of graduate study. Graduate students may, with approval of the faculty advisor, enroll for some of these undergraduate courses at the same time they are enrolled in graduate courses. For example, a student enrolled in a 700-level seminar in media law may also be enrolled in an undergraduate skills course in basic news reporting; the student would earn graduate credit for the 700-level seminar but not for the 300-level news reporting class.
Some basic undergraduate instruction is essential for understanding the content of some graduate-level courses in journalism and mass communications, so students without prior academic or professional experience in the field may be required to complete the following, or their equivalents:
1. JOUR 201 and 202;
2. one or more writing skills courses from JOUR 333/333L, 335/335L, 434, 436, 452, 458;
3. one or more professional courses from JOUR 305, 325, 326, 328, 368.
Applicants who cannot demonstrate a basic knowledge of statistics must complete a course from an approved list before registering for JOUR 701 or JOUR 801. Such a course should be completed early in the student's program and will count toward the graduate degree only if it is 500-level or above.
An applicant for admission to the M.A. or M.M.C. degree programs will be evaluated on a combination of factors: undergraduate grades; performance on the GRE; previous job experience, especially if that experience is in mass media-related positions; recommendations and the written statement of objectives, in which the applicant outlines reasons for seeking a graduate degree in mass communications.
Successful applicants usually present an undergraduate grade average of at least 3.00 and a combined GRE score (verbal, quantitative, analytical) of 1500, or comparables scores when taken under the analytical section's new grading scale. In fact, the typical graduate student in the program exceeds these standards. However, applicants who are unusually promising in other ways--they have compiled solid professional experience or have overcome formidable obstacles along the way, for example--have been accepted and have done well. International students, in addition to the above, must present a score of at least 600 (250 computer-based score) on the TOEFL exam. Potential applicants who have questions about their qualifications for admission are encouraged to contact the school's director of graduate student services.
Admission to the doctoral program is voted on individually by the school's graduate council after careful consideration of a number of factors. These include the applicant's academic record (especially work done at the masters level), performance on the GRE, professional experience, recommendations, and the applicant's personal statement outlining reasons for applying for doctoral study and career hopes and expectations. Preference is given to applicants with at least two years of experience as journalism and mass communications professionals; many successful applicants have substantially more professional experience. A GRE combined score (verbal, quantitative, analytical) of 1800 is expected, though exceptions occasionally have been made for applicants with unusually strong professional backgrounds or other evidence of outstanding professional and intellectual promise. International applicants are expected to present a TOEFL score of at least 600 (250 computer-based score).
Doctoral students normally must have completed, or be in the final stages of, a master's degree. In exceptional circumstances, a student with a baccalaureate degree may be admitted directly into the doctoral program, with the understanding that the student will first complete the usual requirements for the master's degree while studying for the doctorate. In such cases, the usual doctoral requirements of 36 hours of course work beyond the master's plus a dissertation will apply. The master's degree need not be in journalism/mass communications, although a student whose master's degree is in another field may need additional course work.
Master of Arts
The M.A. is a traditional academic program involving 24 semester hours of course work plus a 6-hour thesis. The thesis, an extensive and well-documented research paper, is designed to demonstrate that the student is capable of independent research on a meaningful topic under the supervision of a faculty committee. A minimum of 21 hours must be earned in graduate-level journalism and mass communications courses, including the basic M.A. core listed below. With the approval of the faculty advisor, the M.A. student may take 9 semester hours of course work outside the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The M.A. degree is especially appropriate for those students with extensive professional experience in journalism and mass communications who are interested in teaching careers or mass communications research and/or those who want to pursue a doctorate.
Degree Requirements
To earn the M.A. degree, a student must complete:
1. a minimum of 30 graduate credits;
2. the M.A. core: JOUR 701, 702, 706, 720, 749, 799;
3. 9 hours of approved elective credits;
4. the comprehensive examination, a five-hour written examination based on the M.A. core courses;
5. an oral examination in defense of the thesis.
Master of Mass Communication
The M.M.C. emphasizes media management and is designed primarily for those who wish to become professionals in some aspect of mass communications. Students enrolled in the M.M.C. program do not write a thesis but are required to complete 36 hours of course work, including a professional practicum experience with a newspaper, magazine, television or radio station, advertising or public relations department or agency, or some other approved mass media-related organization.
Required courses include the basic M.M.C. core and 18 hours of electives as listed below. Some of the electives will be taught in the Moore School of Business.
Within the M.M.C. program, it is possible to elect a specialized area of study in newspaper leadership or integrated communications. The newspaper leadership area of emphasis is primarily for students interested in preparing for positions of leadership in the newspaper industry. The integrated communications area of emphasis combines a variety of strategic communications disciplines (advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct response, marketing communications).
To earn the M.M.C. degree, a student must complete:
1. a minimum of 36 graduate credits;
2. the M.M.C. core: JOUR 701, 705, 706, 762, 771, 777;
3. electives
4. the comprehensive examination, consisting of a first-day, five-hour written examination based on the M.M.C. core courses and a second-day five-hour written examination based on the student's elective hours and practicum-related experience;
5. an oral examination in defense of the second-day examination.
More information is provided in the school's Guidelines for the Master's Degree Programs, which each student should consult as an unofficial supplement to the University's Graduate Studies Bulletin. Information is also available on the school's graduate Web site at www.jour.sc.edu/grad/home.html.
Doctor of Philosophy
The Ph.D. in mass communications prepares students for teaching and research careers in higher education and for research and management positions with mass communications organizations.
The doctoral program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications is small and selective, permitting students a considerable degree of flexibility in tailoring courses and areas of study to fit their special needs and career goals.
The doctoral core requirements, listed below, are designed to equip the student with a strong background in research methods and design, communications theory, ethical perspectives, historical and legal research, and teaching experience.
To earn the Ph.D. in mass communications, the student must complete:
1. a qualifying examination, administered at the beginning of the student's program, which tests master's level understanding of mass media research methods, history, law, and communications theory; this examination, largely diagnostic in nature, will help the faculty in planning the student's program of study; students showing deficiences in any of these areas may be required to enroll in appropriate 700-level courses to satisfy this requirement; doctoral students who have successfully completed the M.A. comprehensive examination and earned the M.A. degree from the school within the past five years will have satisfied this requirement;
2. the basic doctoral core: JOUR 801, 802, 803, either 804 or 806, 805, 899;
3. a second area of emphasis consisting of at least three other approved courses in mass communications;
4. a third area of at least three courses in another field of study, such as economics, business, political science, history, education, library science, or English; normally the three courses would be in the same academic discipline; however, a student interested, for example, in modern Africa might, with approval of the faculty, take one course in history, one in political science, and a third in sociology;
5. a comprehensive examination based on doctoral course work; this examination is administered in two parts: a 12-hour written examination (four three-hour sets of questions taken over a seven-day period) and an oral defense before the student's comprehensive examination committee;
6. the University's residency requirement, which means the student must be enrolled for at least 6 semester hours during three consecutive semesters;
7. an examination or appropriate course work demonstrating a reading knowledge of at least one foreign language, administered by one of the University's foreign language department;
8. a doctoral dissertation successfully defended before the student's dissertation committee.
These are minimum requirements. A doctoral student who aspires to write a dissertation in a given area may be required to enroll for an additional course in statistics or research methods, for example.
More information is provided in the school's Guidelines for the Ph.D. Program, which each student is expected to consult as an unofficial supplement to the University's Graduate Studies Bulletin. Information is also available on the school's Web site at www.jour.sc.edu/grad/home.html.


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Love Pets? We do too! Learn about pet care, pet health issues, read heartwarming animal stories, and more!
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Dog Circus Educates Japanese Youngsters on the Responsibilities of Pet Ownership
Jumping rope, balancing on balls and crossing narrow balance beams the furry friends brought smiles and laughter to the students of the local public school located in Tachikawa city on the outskirts of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
Beginning with a short 10 minute speech about dog shelters and statistics on the numbers of canines abandoned each year in Japan, organizers provided the young attendants with both education and entertainment.
Impressed by what he learned one 6th grader said he didn't approve of people who abandoned their pets.
"I really felt those people that abandon their dogs and don't take responsibility for them, that's not a good thing," 12-year-old Tokutaro Takahashi said.
His classmate, Keito Aoki who also had a chance to jump rope on stage with man's best friend agreed.
"For me it is unforgivable! From the moment you buy one, until it dies, that is our obligation," Aoki said.
The Wow Wow Dog Circus aims to educate young people about the responsibilities of pet ownership and encourage them both as children and later as adults to adopt animals from shelters in preference to buying them from pet shops.
"To understand the value of life, while they are still kids, to let them know what the situation in Japan is in the hope that they will pass on what they learned to others. That is the main focus of the program," said dog trainer Kayo Takeda.
In contrast to some other nations the concept of 'doggie adoption' or animal rescue is still relatively unknown in Japan. Most pet owners purchase animals from local pet shops or kennels.
"Compared to a country like Germany the number (of adoptions) is way too low, more and more we need to use the system (for adopting abandoned dogs).
The sales at pets shops are very high (in Japan), but overseas the thinking to adopt a dog is much more prevalent. I'd like to hope that Japan will move forward in that direction," Takeda told Reuters.
In Japan 100,000 dogs are abandoned and destroyed every year.
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More people were prosecuted for hunting with dogs last year than in any other since the 2004 ban came into force, official figures show.
A total of 110 hunters were charged for offences under the Hunting Act in 2013, an increase on the previous high of 92 in 2009, according to Ministry of Justice figures.
Fox hunting was the primary target of the ban passed by Labour in power and the controversial issue still occupies the Government as farmers have argued a change is needed to control fox numbers after an increase in attacks on lambs
The Coalition Agreement promised MPs a free vote on repealing the Act, and Prime Minister David Cameron was forced in March to quash rumours the law would be amended to remove a limit of using two dogs to flush out foxes.
Ministers have admitted that the Tories and Liberal Democrats could not agree on how to proceed with the commitment to a vote but Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has said it will happen "at an appropriate time".
There has been a steady rise in the number of people being prosecuted for hunting with dogs since 2010, when 49 people faced charges.
In 2011, there were 72 prosecutions while in 2012, 84 hunters faced charges.
The offence carries a maximum fine of £5,000.
The 2010 Coalition Agreement, which sealed the power-sharing deal between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, promised that, by the end of the Parliament in 2015 "we will bring forward a motion on a free vote enabling the House of Commons to express its view on the repeal of the Hunting Act".
The figures were released by Justice Minister Damian Green in response to a written parliamentary question from Labour former farming minister Jim Fitzpatrick.
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Having a look a the yiic commands that create yii's online HTML pages, it was quite easy to fork them into a VimApiCommand that created a useful API manual in vim help file format.
To me this is already useful but still misses some fine tuning when it comes e.g. to formatting of the code examples.
I'll release the files soon, but would like to know first, how many would use them at all.
So if you're a vim user - show yourself!!
I've attached a screenshot that shows how it looks like in action.
This project is hosted on github now
You find the latest version in the tags section of the github repo.
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yii-api-vim.png (167.85K)
Number of downloads: 90


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"Why faith?" I heard some of my classmates ask towards the end of class. "Why not focus more on learning instead?"
I sat quietly in the corner of the room listening to the conversation between my classmates, and realized I had never really thought much about it before. Waynesburg University and faith had always gone hand-in-hand for me. It's one of the many reasons I chose this school. But what is it that makes faith such an important element to a Christian campus like Waynesburg? That's what my classmates wanted to know, and that was the question that kept drumming through my head for the rest of the day.
As my classmates began packing their things, quickly transitioning into various other conversations, I remained silent, thinking. Even as I exited the room, my thumbs hooked through the straps of my book bag, the question kept presenting itself to me. Why faith?
When I reflect back on my college career I remember weekly Chapel services, Sunday night student-led worship services, heart-to-hearts with professors—all things that have influenced my experience at Waynesburg. Everything I have learned throughout my four years here has somehow referenced back to my faith, causing me to grow in ways I never imagined I could.
So, why is faith so important? In my own words, this is what I came up with:
- Faith is the foundation, not only to Waynesburg University, but also in many of our lives—it's where things began. When we look back at our history, not only as a University, but also as a country, faith was the driving force that got us on our feet, something we proudly fought for and defended. With that foundation, even when the walls shake and crumble, there is always hope for restoration.
- Faith is a source of joy, hope and love. I know how hard it is not to fall into the selfish, materialistic ways of society. What's in it for me seems to be the mantra of the world today. Through my experience, this constant push to be perfect only leads to self-destruction, but when we focus our lives on faith instead, we realize just how perfect we are in God's eyes. It's not about what we wear, what we look like or how much money we have; it's about finding ourselves lost in the beautiful, boundless love of Christ. Through faith, we can experience a joyful, hopeful, loving way of life, free of charge.
- Faith pushes our boundaries. One of the things I have loved and hated most about my faith is that it challenges me to think beyond my reasoning and pushes me out of my comfort zone. Faith is not about being comfortable and it's certainly not easy, but when we find ourselves wrapped up in it, the end result is nothing short of rewarding. When I find myself questioning anything, including my faith, I find myself learning. This is what makes the pairing of faith and learning together so endearing to me. A well-developed faith often comes through trial and error, much like learning a skill in the classroom. Sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't, but just because we don't understand doesn't mean the answer isn't out there. Often times it takes patience and a willingness to accept things through a fresh set of eyes.
- Faith gives us something to look forward to both today and in the future to come. When everything else seems to fall apart, faith is the crutch we are given to help us stand. God wants us to come to Him with our problems. He wants us to know that through Him all things are possible. With Him, nothing can tear us a part. Through our faith, we know God has promised us a future, even as we step into the unknown. This gives me the strength to get out of bed each morning despite my racing anxieties of what the future holds. For, I am a child of God.


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Northeast Ohio's premier source for business news
Originally Published: December 6, 2012 1:30 AM
Updated: 12/5/2012
Washington inaction could endanger small banks' ability to lend
By Scott Suttell
We're all painfully aware of the approaching fiscal cliff. It turns out the country's small banks
are facing a cliff of their own
The Wall Street Journal
says, and the development "could pinch short-term lending rates." On Jan. 1, a program that insures an unlimited amount of money in non-interest-bearing accounts will expire unless Washington moves to extend it,
The Journal
says. Without the Transaction Account Guarantee program, known as TAG, an insurance cap resets to $250,000, affecting about $1.6 trillion in deposits. And without insurance protection, the newspaper reports, "depositors may be compelled to move amounts above $250,000 to other venues deemed safer, leaving the banks with less business." J.P. Morgan estimates that in this scenario, about $580 billion of the deposits could be on the move. Big financial firms "would be on the receiving end of these flows, where cash would either be moved into the perceived safer hands of larger banks or earn a sliver of interest at a conservative money fund,"
The Journal
reports. (It's important to note here that industry analysts tells
The Journal
there still is a possibility the program would be extended on a temporary basis. Assuming Congress is able to act. Make up your own mind as to whether that's a reasonable assumption.) Jack Hartings, CEO of
Peoples Bank Co.
in Coldwater, Ohio, in Mercer County, tells the newspaper that the possible expiration of TAG is making it hard for him to prepare for the end of the year. Of his bank's $345 million in deposits, $13.5 million is held across 24 accounts covered by TAG. Here's how
The Journal
describes Mr. Hartings' situation:
The difficulty of not knowing the future of the program, he says, is the need to build up liquidity in case money is withdrawn. This has prompted Mr. Hartings to hold on to some of the deposits his bank would have normally lent out. "It takes a short time for people to move this money," he said. "I may not know until the last day of this year if it stays or gets moved. If I'm a large money fund, it probably sounds minimal. But it's a big deal to us."
This and that
It's all downhill from here:
Wildwood, Mo.-based Peak Resorts Inc.
has bought
Alpine Valley Ski Area
in Chesterland. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alpine Valley opened in 1962 and has two chairlifts and four surface lifts. Peak Resorts already operates the Boston Mills and Brandywine resorts in Northeast Ohio. "We feel the resort has been well maintained, and has a lot of potential," said Peak Resorts vice president Jesse Boyd in a statement. "We look forward to the close integration of the resort with Boston Mills and Brandywine." Peak Resorts operates a total of 12 winter resorts in six states.
Waste not, want not:
OurPet's Co.
of Fairport Harbor
was issued a U.S. patent
for a new waste disposal system for dogs. WasteManagementWorld.com reports that the device was invented by John R. Nottingham, John W. Nottingham and John W. Spirk of the
Nottingham Spirk
design/innovation firm, as well as local engineer Michael O'Toole and OurPet's CEO Steven Tsengas. An abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office describes the device this way:
"An automatic pet training pad having a training pad area, an absorbent pad bin and a waste collection bin. A roll of absorbent pad material extends from the absorbent pad bin, across the training pad area and into the waste collection bin. After a pet uses the training pad, a sensor activates a disposal cycle. The used absorbent pad material is withdrawn into the waste collection bin, rolled into a disposable waste pouch, and severed off from the clean absorbent pad material. The absorbent pad comprises an upper, fluid-absorbent layer and a lower, fluid-impervious layer bonded together in a continuous sheet. The absorbent pad material is further impregnated with an odor suppressing substance to control pet waste odor."
In case you wonder about the efficiency and complexity of the patent system, the application was filed on Feb. 18,
. In case you missed it … You might not read Editor's Choice or other
blogs — it's OK, I'll forgive you — so here's a quick version of a couple (long) posts from earlier in the week related to small businesses.
You probably know
Jonathon Sawyer
as one of Cleveland's high-profile celebrity chefs. But this week, at least, he's also playing the role of workplace advice columnist. Mr. Sawyer, whose restaurants include The Greenhouse Tavern and Noodlecat, is among the contributors this week to a
Washington Post
web feature called "On Small Business," in which a panel of young entrepreneurs offers answers to questions faced by small business owners. For instance,
this question
asks for tips on simple, inexpensive methods that can make a workplace more employee-friendly.
, he's asked for advice on enforcing employee hours. And in response to a query about how to help
retain top talent
Mr. Sawyer suggests that companies make significant investments in training, in addition to offering competitive pay and benefits.
There's a lot to chew on in
this TechCrunch.com interview
with Cavaliers owner/Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert about entrepreneurship and urban revival. It's a long interview, focused primarily on Mr. Gilbert's business efforts in Detroit. But it has significant resonance for Cleveland, where one of Mr. Gilbert's ventures, startup accelerator
, is trying to replicate some of the success it has had in the Motor City. Quicken Loans also has become a major job generator in downtown Detroit. Here's one of Mr. Gilbert's many interesting comments: "Through Detroit Venture Partners and Rockbridge (a private equity firm) we try to tap into the operational expertise of our business. … We really try to look at it as one company, one business, one family where people can tap in and either recruit other people maybe to come over and help in or even for short periods of time. For instance, we're even going to put what we call our mousetrap. People who just process excellence, we're going to put them in the Casino in Cleveland for a period of time to help them. There's going to be two or three people go over there for 90 days just to help them set-up their process excellence."
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State of the University: Convocation 2013
Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013
Good afternoon, and thank you for joining me today.
Welcome UAF students, faculty and staff to today's convocation. I'd like to welcome our guests: members of the University of Alaska Board of Regents, UAF Board of Advisors and Fairbanks Community Advisory Council.
Most of you are, of course, returning to UAF, but I want to especially acknowledge the 50 new faculty who are now members of this community. I know we have in the audience members of the Faculty Senate and Staff Council, the UAF governance groups with whom the administration shares responsibility for this institution.
Our colleagues at community campuses, research stations and extension sites have joined us online. Finally, I'd like to extend a special welcome to the board of the alumni association and the alumni who are here to celebrate a weekend of reunion activities.
I want to recognize the loss of some of our colleagues, and our friends, during the past year. In very different ways, each helped build this university, and we are all indebted to them for what they gave. Please join me in a moment of silence.
Thank you.
We've come to the end of a glorious summer, one with record-breaking temperatures, cloudless blue skies and a bumper-crop of berries. Here in Fairbanks we got a reminder of the changing seasons yesterday. And as that dusting of snow tells us what's coming, we can already see signs of a changing future at UAF. Change can be challenging, but just as we adapt to snow in September, we Alaskans can adapt to a changing fiscal environment.
Here in the North, we understand intuitively and intellectually that we are all linked, through time and space. Where I stand today, where I work every day, as do many of you, is on the ridge known as Troth Yeddha'. This is where Athabascan elders met to share information, as we do now. Those elders knew their lives depended on understanding and heeding the complexities of the world. They knew, as we know, that we are never separate from the world around us.
Like every other university in the country, we are engaged in a national discussion about higher education. Does it cost too much? Are we preparing students for jobs? Can we get them out of school faster? Can we simplify the process? Can we do it all online?
While we do need to be concerned about costs, and employment, and speed to graduation, I'd like to suggest today that in both the national and local discussions, we need to remember the value of a liberal arts education. Higher education is not just about preparing people for jobs. It's about preparing people for life.
Traditionally, the liberal arts are those subjects a person needs to know in order to engage in civic life. In ancient Greece, that included rhetoric, grammar, and logic. Later mathematics, music, and the sciences were added.
But what is a liberal education today? What do our students need in order to function successfully in the 21st Century? UAF's Faculty Senate is grappling with this through the General Education Revitalization Committee. The Senate has already adopted the overall learning objectives, saying students need four basics:
- Knowledge of human institutions, socio-cultural processes and the physical and natural world;
- Intellectual and practical skills;
- Tools for effective civic engagement; and
- The ability to integrate and apply learning.
We've come a long way from rhetoric, grammar and logic. But life today is far more complex than in ancient Greece. We know that most of our students will, at some time in their careers, hold jobs that don't exist today, just as many of us who've been here a while do things that were unimaginable when we were in college. So we teach for life, teaching students to learn how to ask questions and how to answer them.
A sustainable society needs thinking, innovative workers. We need people who can analyze, create and collaborate. Our job isn't just jobs. Our job is helping students see the world beyond themselves and their career pathway. It's ensuring they have basic knowledge of history, the humanities, arts and sciences. Our job is helping students discover their place in the world is more than a paycheck, that it is also the best of their intellectual, emotional and moral lives.
This is a fundamental issue, and one we need to address along with those other discussions of budgets, costs and time to graduation. We cannot forget that we are a university, and the students who are with us for a short time must be prepared to live in society for a far longer time. I want to thank the faculty members who are working diligently on the general education requirements, and ask others to assist them. I consider this the most important initiative at UAF today. Shaping our students' future is shaping Alaska's future.
Another national issue facing UAF and institutions like ours across the nation is the threat of reductions in federal support, and the impact it will have on us.
Sequestration, a word few people had heard a year ago, is now, unfortunately, part of our vocabulary. It has become an all-too familiar term, and one we are likely to continue to hear in the coming years.
What does this mean for UAF? It means we need to focus. UAF must continue to conduct world-class research on arctic issues and climate change. Our campuses, outreach and learning centers across the state must continue to offer training that allows Alaskans to get jobs and provide for their families.
Alaska needs us, and the world needs us, too. We live and work amid some of the greatest environmental change the modern world has seen. As the ice melts and the coastlines shift, we have to ask — and answer — questions about human migration, biological extinction, food security and national security. We don't just have a front-row seat to the drama of climate change: Our world is the stage, and we have a starring role.
So we are both central to the world and interconnected with it. The university provides a foundation for life in Alaska. We educate Alaskans, opening them up to the possibilities of being creative, savvy, adventurous and tough-minded.
It takes many to build and grow a state. We have a responsibility to Alaska. Every class we teach, every project we undertake, every student we inspire, or legislator we convince — everything has the potential to build something greater than the sum of its parts.
Those parts, of course, require investment. The decisions we make today will impact where we are, as a state and a university, tomorrow. When people think about shaping Alaska's future, many recognize UAF as a good investment. From research projects to student-life initiatives — government, industry, foundations and Alaskans support UAF because they know they will see a return in the form of new knowledge and in smart people who can apply it.
We are going to need their support, and yours, for the biggest capital challenge in our history — construction of a new heat and power plant for the Fairbanks campus. We have been building awareness of the need for replacement for several years. We have been working on the necessary permits, and by next year we will be ready to start construction. The heat and power plant is our biggest risk — we obviously cannot operate a campus in Fairbanks Alaska without heat. But it's also our biggest opportunity, to save more than 40 percent on fuel costs, and to significantly reduce emissions from the plant. It's a good investment.
The combined heat and power plant will join other tangible evidence of real progress in investment and renewal of our university. Last fall we secured the public-private partnership for Wood Center that continues the reinvigoration of student life on the Fairbanks campus. We launched the Sikuliaq, the most advanced arctic research vessel in the world. Winter brought the opening of the Hulbert Nanook Terrain Park, the nation's first certified ski and snowboard park on a university campus. We broke ground on the engineering building in the spring. After a decade of effort, we completed the Margaret Murie Building for life sciences teaching and research.
On the research front, we identified the world's oldest circumpolar umiak, we're adding new sensors as we launch unmanned aircraft, we're understanding adaptation to climate change, we've begun investigating geothermal power for Nome, and far more.
When I say "we did this," I mean you. Each of you — students, staff, faculty, researchers, and administrators — all of us played some part in some aspect of our success. It's only because of you that we did this.
We have this great momentum … and yet. We all know the fiscal realities. Each of you can think of someone or something affected by budget cuts. Everything we do at UAF has value to someone. Whenever we stop doing something, someone feels it. But people are counting on us to continue making UAF better, keeping our education relevant and cost-effective.
We are a public institution. We are a research university. We reach across Alaska, coastal and inland, rural and urban, old and young, college prep and postdoctoral. We serve the underserved, provide vocational training, and produce research doctorates. We support students compelled to do more, intellectually and professionally. We conduct groundbreaking research respected around the world.
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What we will do better, and what we will stop doing are real questions, and we have to answer them. Those answers will come only if we are working together.
Now is not the time to retreat to old ways or to hide. Last year I talked about the safety mantra of "see something, say something." I'd like you to think about that approach for everything we do, whether it's a money-saving idea, or energy saving, a way to recruit new students or a way to combine resources in the lab. The more efficient we are, the more nimble we will be. We'll be able to respond to the curve balls that will inevitably be thrown at us. We can let them knock us over, or we can hit them out of the park.
One of the things I heard over and over from throughout UAF was that, in dealing with declining dollars, we need to cut vertically, not horizontally. No more across-the-board cuts that weaken everything, whether already weak or strong. This has meant making some hard decisions, but any cut is going to be hard. We will see services change — some already have. Sometimes the change will increase efficiency, but some services will, frankly, decrease. Because we take pride in the work we do, we naturally resist changes that diminish it. But we do have to face the fiscal realities. Some doors will inevitably close, but others will open. I've talked with Staff Council about how to improve UAF's training and professional development programs, so all staff are prepared for a changing university, and are able to take advantage of new opportunities that await us.
We have so many choices, but we will greet the coming years with excitement and determination — and we will do it together.
"UAF is ... naturally inspiring." Our new brand strategy, introduced last year, has created a strong and unified message about who we are and what makes UAF unique and special. I could go on for hours about what I find naturally inspiring about UAF, but I won't, and I suspect each of you can think of several things at UAF you find inspiring.
And our brand is working — UAF's numbers are up this fall, counter to expectations and counter to the trend in Alaska higher education. Thanks to all who have embraced it. Thanks for understanding it is not just about a tagline or a logo, it is about the UAF experience. This year I want to share with you what it means for our students — from their first contact with an admissions counselor to when I congratulate them when they walk across the stage at commencement. Our students remind us of who we are and why we are here: Because we are curious, we dream big and we are always game.
This is our university, made by every student, every classroom, every laptop, data point and teaching moment. We are complex. Sometimes complexity can be a drawback, but I believe that far more often it is one of our greatest strengths.
The magnitude of UAF's programs is breathtaking. We have rural campuses and learning centers, deeply rooted in the communities they serve. We have research centers, forging new futures of discovery and development. Our students graduate with certificates, licensures, associate, baccalaureate and master's degrees and PhDs. We deal in ice and volcanoes, birds and rockets, mask making and engine repair.
No other university does what we do, covering such a broad geography, such diverse cultures, and with such a comprehensive mission. No other university leads a network of more than 100 international arctic institutions. No other university has the northern focus on climate change, people and the natural world that we do. No other university has you, the students, faculty and staff who shape this institution. No other university is shaping Alaska's future like UAF does.
Whatever lies before us, it is a privilege to be part of an institution that cultivates and celebrates such diversity, creativity and curiosity.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:51 pm
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The kill all men line cements my distaste for this feminist arc.
It was a funny strip until that.
If anyone put "kill all women" or "kill group X" into a comic, they'd probably be abandoned by their advertisers.
Personally, I think the stigma against devil people was always the better metaphor.
Cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:57 pm
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I find the reaction towards the previous panel by forum members and the reaction to this one....telling.
It's first bashing a heterosexual couple for...uhm..existing basically.
And then cheering for a lesbian couple - of which one woman seems to be a deranged psychotic.
Not to mention the phrase "kill all men" doesn't help their view point AND has been uttered more than once during this arc.
Again the reactions are one sided on this forum.
Wonder what would happen if the genders would be reversed.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:12 pm
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I do see some of the double standards you mention.
But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the comic- it's members of the Sisterhood poking fun at themselves, and some of the more extreme views associated with them.
I don't think there really is any serious intent behind most of it. I think it's just... stereotypical banter for the sake of satire.
But I could be wrong. In which case, I reiterate: prepare for the fempocalypse.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:34 pm
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You know, I think people might be right. Joking about the feminist campaign to eliminate all men from the planet is in really poor taste. Men live in fear, every single day, on the knife's edge of extinction thanks to this evil feminist agenda. The reality of this situation should not be made light of or ignored, and the plight of these hapless menfolk not dismissed or taken less seriously for the sake of burlesque. Doing so minimizes the very real suffering of men who have been crushed, literally
under the Big Wheels of these violent and militant women, and seeks to minimize and distract from the power these broad swords wield in order to keep the men complacent and lined up like cattle for the slaughter. It helps to reinforce and shore up the cultural and institutional mores they rely on to obscure and justify their crushing vice-grip of control on the very bodies, even the very squishy testicles and other such pink and intimate bits, of the footballsier sex--even as others invested in these feminist power structures are pushing for laws in the very congresses of this country, in order to wrest more and more control,
even unto death,
of these male bodies.
How many of our brothers, our fathers, our sons, and our good and benevolent husbands will we lose to this man-killing culture before we wake up, stop laughing it off with such crude and heartless humor, and actually do something about it?
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:58 pm
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Honestly, with all this misandry and showing off the "douchebags" who are in fact self-proclaimed douchebags and showing us how Slick cannot overcome his dark side and how Uncle Sam is basically deceit incarnate, I'd say this comic totally needs
the Sisterhood
having some chat. I don't remember them meeting up too much, especially not... speaking to each other much.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:05 pm
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Popping my head in again after spending too much time on the Wonder Woman thread (that everyone should read! There's a petition and everything!), mightn't it be thesis-antithesis-synthesis in the strip?
First we have the pre-feminist stuff, then the exploring-feminism stuff and a lot of introspection, and shock, about negative patriarchal messages (thesis), then observing some of the problems in some kinds of extreme/distorted versions of feminism (antithesis, as seen in some very recent strips like this one), and perhaps leading ultimately to a more complex and well-rounded synthesis?
I mean, you can see that pattern in a lot of things when someone starts dealing with all sorts of issues--the "first fervor" of a religious or political conversion, then disillusionment with problems one didn't see or pay attention to at first, but then finally an affirmation of the good while being aware of the bad.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:08 pm
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I am probably more on the dudebro side of the spectrum, but this comic was honestly and absolutely hilarious. It made me smile.
As someone said earlier, it's getting easier to like the sisterhood as people the more we see these interactions with them.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:13 pm
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I see no reason to suppose that they are joking about themselves. They smile, but surely they might do so because they approve! Mr. Ishida's sock puppets are amusing, though - they have this wild, goggle-eyed look.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 11:56 pm
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Ha ha, anyone who thinks "Kill all men!" is anything besides a light-hearted joke is seriously lacking critical thinking skills (the mostly politically correct way I can say that xD). Does your comedy have to be one-dimensional and spoon fed to you? Does it have to be so straightforward that there's no room for interpretation? Maybe you should try slapstick. It's much easier to follow. Heck, that's it! Maybe Tat needs to add in more physical comedy. I'm sure the Sisterhood would be happy to oblige!
Until then, let the rest of us enjoy the clever comedy of this strip and know that Tat still uses his characters for fun just as he always had! Yes, he has gotten into a heavy plot arc, but sometimes they do relax and banter around!
And yes please, add me to the bandwagon for more God in the comics. Loved his response here. And next some Buddha and Dragon too! =P
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 12:47 am
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Yay, God has found a way to make his crowd happy! Also totally shipping Madam and Eve.
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:30 am
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Adyon wrote:
Ha ha, anyone who thinks "Kill all men!" is anything besides a light-hearted joke is seriously lacking critical thinking skills
if it was coming from xanthe or curly i'd be certain about that, but we don't know #3 too well. there's room for her to be a nutcase / plain immature
i don't see any problem either way
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:35 am
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ktern wrote:
Adyon wrote:
Ha ha, anyone who thinks "Kill all men!" is anything besides a light-hearted joke is seriously lacking critical thinking skills
if it was coming from xanthe or curly i'd be certain about that, but we don't know #3 too well. there's room for her to be a nutcase / plain immature
i don't see any problem either way
The difference is in this:
The Oatmeal - Minor Differences
And in this case, we can't be perfectly certain which one describes #3's view on this.
Not to mention, "Kill all women!" or "Kill all humans!" wouldn't sound that great. I'm not sure why this statement with men | women would be any different in value.
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:47 am
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They're lying on the grass looking at sockpuppets. Take a fucking guess.
Honestly pretty much everyone here is in agreement that it's a joke except those who have been against the Sisterhood constantly, so I'm not surprised the dudebro's are doing mental gymnastics again to make them look evil.
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 2:55 am
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And then cheering for a lesbian couple - of which one woman seems to be a deranged psychotic.
Dude, the lesbians are literally only in
one panel
. The long haired puppet of the first panel is
. Long haired puppet in the third panel is a female
. There is literally nothing for you to deduce that
one of them seems to be a deranged psychotic
crayven wrote:
Wonder what would happen if the genders would be reversed.
What part of
gender inequality
do you just not understand? If the genders were reversed the statement would hold a
to it. The difference is, oh, I dunno,
maybe a couple hundred years of the oppression of an entire gender
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:03 am
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They're lying on the grass looking at sockpuppets. Take a fucking guess.
Honestly pretty much everyone here is in agreement that it's a joke except those who have been against the Sisterhood constantly, so I'm not surprised the dudebro's are doing mental gymnastics again to make them look evil.
Eh, the sockpuppet argument doesn't really fly. Tat uses a wide variety of tools to get messages across, sockpuppets is just the tool he uses with God (sometimes he uses his fingers too), just like porn is the medium he uses with Uncle Sam.
I can see both sides of the argument here. These past two comic strips have really portrayed the Sisterhood as an organization that hates men, not the Patriarchy, but men in general.
Of course this is GOD we're talking about and quite frankly I have a hard time taking any of his strips too seriously. There are messages in it but I think the message this time isn't about the Sisterhood, but how malleable religion is and how often it has changed based on who it is that's associated with it.
However it's very interesting to watch these debates. Whenever there is something that glorifies the Sisterhood and condemns the Patriarchy the Sisterhood advocates all come out of the wood work and support the message, they dig deep and find every tiny little message they can that supports their side and condemns men and 'dudebros'. Then they'll dig trenches, stake the ground and set up artillery and literally insult, berate and verbally assault anyone that disagrees with them. All of the threads I bothered to stick around and read have usually all devolved into name calling and insults because neither side wants to relent or come to some form of mutual agreement or middle ground.
However whenever the OPPOSITE occurs the Sisterhood advocates all pass it off as nothing more than a joke, pointless, satire and not serious. They won't try to defend the actions and arguments of the individuals in the strip, they'll just try to wipe it all off the board by stating it's not meant to be serious and that everyone should lighten up and stop reading too much into the strip.
The Sisterhood advocates aren't the only one guilty of this though, the opposite is true for those that stand against the Sisterhood.
And despite what you all may think of me, I'm neither for nor against either side. I'm the person that always plays devils advocate. I always try to present a side I feel hasn't been portrayed properly, or at all, regardless of my own personal views and feelings of it.
However all of that is why I've come to the realization that's it's pointless to try to argue anything here. People are so dead set in their ways that they're unable and unwilling to see any view but their own (I'm not saying to ACCEPT another view, but just the ability to SEE). When you bring along the anonymity that is the Internet and the fact that there's no repercussions of letting fly whatever you want to say everyone sort of... well... go read this strip over at Penny Arcade, it explains everything quite well:
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University of South Florida students have arrived at the Capitol, ready to protest Sen. JD Alexander's proposed cuts to USF -- which are larger than any other state university -- before his budget committee. They left campus at 3 a.m. on two shuttle buses.
The meeting is sure to be filled with fireworks, coming a day after USF supporters across the state bombarded lawmakers' voicemail and email in-boxes with pleas to spare USF from disproportionate cuts. The reductions are making the biggest splash, but on the back burner is another controversy: a bill slipped into the budget that would immediately split USF Polytechnic off into the state's 12th university. It's a move Alexander has crusaded for months.
The bill essentially overturns an independence path laid out in November by the Florida Board of Governors, which is charged with setting policy for the state university system. The BOG wanted USF Poly to stay under USF's umbrella until it gets its own accreditation, increases enrollment and builds at least two of the buildings on its new campus. Alexander and others have said the new bill basically reinforces what the board's does -- only faster -- because he doesn't trust USF's stewardship of the plan.
The Board of Governors has not come out as a group to say what they think about the move. But Sen. Steve Oelrich, who chairs the Senate's higher education committee, said the Board of Governors indicated to him that it wants to stick with the guidelines already set.
Oelrich, who also sits on the Senate's higher education appropriations committee, was the only senator to raise concerns about the surprise split-off bill when that committee chair, Sen. Evelyn Lynn, stuck it at the end of the committee's budget recommendations last week.
"Is this the procedure, to get one piece of paper to create a new university?" he asked at the time.
The only member of the Board of Governors to speak publicly about the controversy was John Temple, a vocal critic of the push to create "Florida Polytechnic" from the start. Temple also said that what the Legislature, lead by Alexander, is proposing to do flies in the face of the very purpose of having a Board of Governors -- which is to govern the university system without outside political influence.
Frank Brogan, chancellor of the state university system, wouldn't go that far. On Tuesday Brogan said BOG leadership is open to having "additional conversations" with lawmakers about the best process to bring the new polytechnic to reality.
"The beauty is -- same endpoint: University status and accreditation. It is the route to get there where there's a diversion," Brogan said. "The Board of Governors, in a very thoughtful process, carefully examined a lot of options to that same end and selected the one that they did. If this new version ends up becoming the rule of the day, we're going to have to back up and figure out how to make it work."
Brogan said as he understands it, it's the Legislature that has authority to create new universities, as they hold budget power.


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The Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a joint project with the Columbia Spectator Board and Staff to digitize, preserve, and make available online the entire run of the Columbia Spectator from 1877 to the present, creating what will be known as the Spectator Archive.
This multiyear project will be conducted in phases to provide permanent, long‐term preservation and online accessibility to every issue of the second-oldest college daily paper in the country.
Digitization will be done from original copies held by Columbia University Archives and the Spectator editorial office. Once online, it will be possible for any user to search the full text of articles, photo captions, and advertisements, as well as by author and article title. Special care will exercised during scanning to ensure that photograph and illustrations are reproduced as accurately as possible.
"All of us at the Columbia Daily Spectator are thrilled that these unique archives will be preserved for posterity and made accessible to the Columbia community and beyond. On behalf of the Spectator, I thank the staff of the Columbia University Libraries for its energy and professionalism in tackling this important project. Above all, I am grateful to Spectator's class of '58 and its friends who, led by Spec alumni Bernard W. Nussbaum and Ernest Brod, raised the funds that enabled us to begin the digitization process," Wendy Brandes, CC '89, chairman of the Columbia Daily Spectator Board of Trustees said.
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The Notebook star was so excited about working with the director, she told him she was a big fan of the beasts when he asked if she had a problem working with them - because they'd feature in his movie.
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Kentucky Knife Fight has been running their garage blues rock all over St. Louis for several years now, and I think it's almost time for the revolution. With the release of their second LP We're All Nameless Here, KKF shows themselves to be the rock n' roll force that it deserves to be. Neither on their new album nor in their live show do KKF mess around. They get straight to the music with amped-up rockers and slow burning blues.
The whole band revolves around Jason Holler's gravelly voice that frequently stretches to its tremulous limits. Holler keys in to the rest of the Knife Fight, providing an incredibly dynamic sound. Besides ripping guitar solos, the music has nice accents from occasional banjo and blues harp, which thankfully takes cues more from Mick Jagger than John Popper.
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Gail F. (Facchine) Forbes, 65, of Greensburg, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 at home. She was born on Aug. 6, 1947 in St. Marys, daughter of the late Guido and Mary Wurm Facchine. Gail was a graduate of Elk County Christian High School and Seton Hill College. She received her Masters in Teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. She taught fourth grade and was the Instructional Support teacher at Mt. View School in Latrobe prior to retiring in 2004. She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral and PSEA. Along with her husband Tom, Gail enjoyed traveling and was able to visit all the lower 48 states. They also spent over 20 years traveling the rivers of Western Pa. on their boat, Gail Force. Happy hour with her friends was another favorite past time of Gail's. She led a beautiful and fulfilling life, dedicated to her faith, family and friends.She is survived by her husband of 28 years, Thomas C. Forbes; her sister, Joan M. Myers and husband Martin of Greensburg; a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Barber and husband Dr. Vance of Greensburg; a brother-in-law, John A. Forbes Jr. and wife Maxine of Greensburg; three nephews, Chad Myers and wife Jaime and their children Sam and Charlie of Mantau, N.J., Joshua Myers and wife Beth and their daughter Emma of Avon, Ohio, and Greg Barber of Arlington, Va.; a niece, Annie Breaux and husband Christopher of New York City, N.Y.; her 'dogter' Tici; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.Relatives and friends of Gail F. Facchine Forbes are invited to celebrate her life from on Monday, Nov. 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Clement L. Pantalone Funeral Home, Inc. 409 W. Pittsburgh St., Greensburg, PA 15601, (724) 837-0020. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at St. Emma's Cor Jesu Chapel, 1001 Harvey Ave., Greensburg-- please go directly to chapel. Interment will follow in St. Emma Monastery Cemtery in Greensburg.In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Emma Monastery 1001 Harvey Ave.,Greensburg, PA 15601; or Excela Health Home Care and Hospice 134 Industrial Park Rd., Suite1600, Greensburg, PA 15601. Gail's family has entrusted her care to the Pantalone Funeral Home, Inc., Greensburg. To share your memories and photos, offer your condolences, view the memorial video or for directions, please visit www.pantalone.com. Natale N. Pantalone, Supervisor.


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Last week New York Times columnist David Brooks invoked the Westerns of director John Ford to criticize putative Republican orthodoxy. The column understandably had to simplify both sides of the equation, but Brooks didn't get near the heart of either one. I particularly appreciate his advice that, before they can begin to rebound, Republicans "will have to to find a leader who is calm, prudent, reassuring and reasonable." No scary people need apply.
At the September 2007 annual convention of the American Polical Science Association, the Claremont Institute devoted a panel to John Ford. Included among the presenters were Professor David Livingstone (Professor Livingstone presented his paper "John Ford's Socratic Argument: Reason, Spiritedness, and the Rule of Law in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'") and Professor Sam Ratcliffe (Professor Ratcliffe presented his paper "John Ford on Government and Society").
Finally, Professor John Marini gave a brilliant presentation of his paper "Saving the West: John Ford and the Epic Western." Professor Marini is a Claremont Institute senior fellow and professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno. He provided a biographical sketch of Ford together with a thematic overview of Ford's films. (The best overview of Ford I have found on the Web is this one by screenwriter Richard Frankin.)
Ford was a profound student of American history in general and the Civil War in particular. Professor Marini highlighted Ford's love of America and his distinguished military service. On a related note, he mentioned the documentary footage Ford shot for "The Battle of Midway" (a film I had not heard of) and Ford's World War II film "They Were Expendable."
Professor Marini credited Ford with the creation of the genre of the serious or epic Western as we have come to know it (as well as with the creation of the character "John Wayne"). Ford was, I think by agreement of all three panelists as well, the greatest director in the history of film and particularly important to us as Americans. Marini's valuable overview of the Western portrays it as a response to the Progressive critique of American history. Here is Marini on the thematic premises of the Western:
The implicit premise of the western…is that our fathers were in some respects better than we are: whatever they may have left us to live down, they also gave us something to live up to. The western restores our connection to the past by acknowledging the fullness or moral wholeness of the past. This could only be done by recognizing the possibility of true greatness of heroes in the past, and, of course, there cannot be heroes without villains. The greatest directors of western movies portrayed a world in which genuine heroes and therefore genuine villains were possible, where human and American virtues and vices contended in all seriousness and the heights and depths of human behavior–like the American Revolution and the legacy of slavery–came into view in a way that was and is meaningful to the moral imagination.
Brooks limits his consideration of Ford to "My Darling Clementine." By the evidence of his column, Brooks seems not to understand Ford. He disparages, for example, the role of the hero in Ford's films. In responding to Brooks's column, James Bowman draws on "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the one film that receives individual attention in Marini's essay on the Western.
Brooks counsels Republicans to focus on communitarian themes. Bowman argues that, rightly understood, Ford undermines "the belief that you can have order and community merely by wishing for these things and passing laws about them: the belief, in short, that they don't have to be fought for." He finds that, Brooks to the contrary notwithstanding, "the movies of John Ford make a different point, and in some ways an opposite one from that which he supposes."
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Professor Jeffrey Lefstin graduated from Brown University, Sc.B., Biology, magna cum laude (1989); University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., Biochemistry (1997); and StanfordLaw School , J.D., Order of the Coif (2000). He teaches and writes about patent and intellectual property law. He joined the UC Hastings faculty in 2003 after serving as a law clerk to Judge Raymond C. Clevenger, III, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. Prior to his clerkship, he practiced patent and antitrust law with the biotechnology and litigation groups at Townsend, Townsend & Crew in San Francisco.
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Whenever Jose Mourinho takes over at a club, the changes are normally evident within the first few months.
To some degree that's been the case with Chelsea, with the likes of David Luiz and Juan Mata missing game-time, and Samuel Eto'o and Willian being bought in.
However come January Mourinho will know he still has work to do if he wants to maintain Chelsea's credentials as title-winning contenders.
There's been a number of transfer rumours concerning the Blues and potential targets, and you can bet that the Special One will use the winter transfer window to do some tinkering.
We take a look at a potential Chelsea XI following January, if Mourinho can get it right...
GK: Petr Cech
The long-serving Czech 'keeper has somewhat recaptured his form of old this season, and will undoubtedly hold onto Chelsea's No.1 jersey until at least the end of the season. Cech provides experience and pedigree in the biggest competitions, and providing he isn't injured, will retain his place.
RB: Branislav Ivanovic
The steadfast full-back is an important element in Chelsea's back line, and since he has so far faced minimal competition from Cesar Azpilicueta, he's a surefire favourite to hold down the right-back spot for the time-being. Offering a solid presence at the back, and good going forward, Ivanovic has developed into a reliable member of the team.
CB: John Terry
The Chelsea captain is probably in his last full season as a regular starter, but has been given a new lease of life under Jose Mourinho. Not as quick nor astute as he once was, but definitely no pushover, Terry guarantees calm and assurance at the back, and is an ideal mentor for any young defenders in the squad- namely the potentially incoming Eliaquim Mangala.
CB: Gary Cahill
The England international has hit his prime and can lay claim to being one of the best centre-backs in the country on his day. His partnership with Terry has blossomed and, now that he has a couple of season's under his belt playing for a big team, he looks more comfortable in the crunch matches.
LB: Ashley Cole
Another player who is close to calling time on his career, Cole remains Chelsea's first-choice left-back, and is still good enough to handle all but the very trickiest of wingers. The ex-Arsenal man is still one of the best full-backs in the league, and Mourinho won't be thinking about replacing him until at least the summer.
RM: Oscar
The Brazilian starlet has been in an exceptional vein of form this year, and it doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.
Oscar struggled with the physicality of the division upon his arrival to the Premier League, but has now settled in with aplomb. If his current form continues then there's no reason why he can't be aiming for personal accolades as well as team trophies come the end of the campaign.
CM: Juan Mata
It's surely only a matter of time before Mourinho realises what he has in Mata. The Spain international doesn't fit the bill for the Special One by way of being small and slight, but he is a genius when on the ball and can be relied upon to conjure something from nothing.
CM: Xabi Alonso
The playmaker is said to be mulling over a potential move to Chelsea, and Mourinho wants him to return to the Premier League. Alonso has proven himself in the Premier League already and, considering the fact he would be arriving on a free, is a no brainer.
LM: Eden Hazard
The Belgian sensation has ran rampant since his arrival at Stamford Bridge, and is unplayable on his day. Unless he suffers some horrific injury or for some reason forgets how to play football he will continue to be a major player in Chelsea's drive for success.
CF: Fernando Torres
Under the watchful eye of Mourinho the Spain international seems to have recovered at least some of his devastating form of old.
Torres may now be 29, but that doesn't mean he hasn't still got time to return to the days when he was scoring 20+ a season with minimal effort. A few more goals will help his confidence, but it looks as though he will get the nod over Samuel Eto'o and Demba Ba when it comes down to the big games.
CF: Mario Balotelli
A dubious inclusion, but one made all the more possible by recent revelations linking the ex-City nut to Stamford Bridge. Balotelli is said to be edging close to the exit door at the San Siro, and Mourinho is rumoured to want a reunion.
The Milan forward has the potential to be brilliant when he puts his mind to the task, and is a proven goalscorer in the Premier League.
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