the Sam Jackson College Experience

Although the Yale College Council is not very much known for agitation or excitement, it has led to the development of some pretty good policies over the years, and in between my failed bids for elected student office I like to keep tabs on what its committees are working on. There was just released a fine, comprehensive report by the YCC detailing what they did in Fall 2008, what they want to do in 2009, etc.

a great new blog popped up, called Graphic Feminism. The authors talk about feminism as it applies to higher education and Yale, but also are putting up some really well done posters around campus on a weekly basis highlighting certain issues that seem to go unmentioned, unquestioned, and undiscussed. There was a really powerful one called 'Your Comments Here' which reprints in full form many of the comments from that YDN article -- and it is shocking, horrible, and deeply informative all at the same time.

It appears that I may have had another unfriendly hacker who decided he was interested in checking out my files and leaving some unpleasant surprises, so if anyone has been experiencing any problems, please let me know. I have had a few people who had reported fake antivirus pages coming up on my site, which [...]

In a nod to my readership's interest in general but especially to David Kane, I am going to do another overview of my classes from last semester. Obviously this is a little bit late since that semester is now -over-, but at least I can write about them with completely clear hindsight and a full knowledge of their academic topography. I have more-or-less finished selecting my classes for this spring semester, but will wait until I have actually had more classes to talk about them further.