The Swamp

Shirley wrote:Howard, there's a HUGE difference between ripping your team in the locker room and doing it in a press conference.

howard wrote:Respectfully disagree that Hinson said anything remotely inappropriate in his presser. IMO. Were I his AD, I would pat him on the back, absent any other context I am not privy to.)

Scottie wrote:…his career must be destroyed.

howard wrote: Didn't the banjo already do that?

P.D.X. wrote:Kentucky man arrested for posting Exodus lyrics on FB

Jerloma wrote:I thought it was gonna be the book.

rass wrote:

#2 -- Don't pack their camping gear

Tsuchitani went on to say that he was not pleased by ASUCD’s apology and called for more action from the association.

“It is pitiful that the ASUCD would pathologize the so-called victims as in need of treatment instead of reflecting more deeply on what is needed to address ASUCD’s own failure in this situation,” Tsuchitani said. “From my limited perspective, I would suggest that the foremost need for treatment might well be for cultural competency training for ASUCD itself. That is much more relevant here than any Orientalist history of sumo wrestling.”

Tsuchitani was not the only student who felt victimized and upset by the sumo suits. Phil Jones, a fourth-year economics student, said that he was shocked by the sumo wrestling event at the Block Party. He also claimed that the sumo wrestling showed insensitivity to overweight Americans.

“To be honest, I was shocked. February 19 was Remembrance Day for Japanese internment during WWII, and some of my Japanese friends were heavily traumatized by seeing their culture mocked in such a clearly racist fashion,” Jones said in a Facebook comment on the Block Party’s event page. “Not to mention, as a Heavy-American, I don’t appreciate the blatant Fat-Shaming involved with caricaturing one of the few sports traditionally enjoyed by Heavy individuals. I honestly feel reparations payments are in order to affected individuals, and that those responsible for the grossly negligent oversight should immediately resign from their ASUCD posts.”

govmentchedda wrote:Fucking hell. "Heavy-American"?

howard wrote:Taibbi makes a good point, that it is not just college students turning pussy on this issue.

College Kids Aren't the Only Ones Demanding 'Safe Spaces'

Matt Taibbi wrote:People in this country tend to follow politics in the same way they follow sports teams. They don't think, they root.

howard wrote:Few signs of where we are and where we are headed are clearer than this. Has practically nothing to do with dem/repubs/thumps/hillaries.

Banning 'To Kill a Mockingbird'? Virginia school pulls books after parent's complaint

Because nigger. Nigger, please.

"There is so much racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can’t get past that, and right now we are a nation divided as it is."

The effects of the adoption of inquiry-math are particularly striking in Calgary Board of Education (CBE) schools, where data shows a dramatic increase in children failing math from grade 6 to grade 12. Math scores have fallen rapidly at CBE and are now significantly lower than those of the Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD). Some key statistics paint a startling picture of poor math performance and a concerning downward trend:

There are more students failing than achieving excellence on the Grade 6 Math Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) – a dramatic reversal of fortune under the leadership of current CBE trustees.
CBE schools have an average failure rate over 50% higher than CCSD schools on the Grade 6 and Grade 9 Math PATs. The CBE’s Grade 9 failure rate is also 14% higher than the provincial average.