Charlie Weis Jr., the nerve you’ve got—what a call in the biggest moment of the game.
Unbelievable recognition from Trinidad Chambliss. That’s straight-up championship football from both of them.
Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers
Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization
@HollyStallcup This one is 💯 as long as every sending pics can work a simple smartphone app. The recipient of the frame doesn’t have to do anything with technology after it’s been set up!
https://t.co/As43RKJWoP
I’m sorry. The previous email indicating we were getting your department an ‘endowed chair’ contained a small error. It should have read ‘upholstered chair.’ You can pick it up from surplus end of week. Remember an engineering profs trash is a linguistics prof’s treasure!
Almost half of Mississippi's rural hospitals could close, new data shows.
That's up from a third in the last iteration of this report 3 months ago. https://t.co/1orKQPb2kv
My new article “On Antiscience and Antisemitism” in Perspectives in Biology & Medicine (also with @JHUPress) just came online and is attached to this tweet. It looks at the historic links since the Black Death in the 1300s, to attacks on Einstein/Freud in Weimar, to Covid today
The Mississippi Free Press is looking for college students to apply as interns for our Poynter and Google News Initiative Misinformation Student Fellowship.
Apply by July 21! More information here:
https://t.co/k1XkQLCo6t
so race–as a category–cannot be used in college admission decisions, but writing about how one's race influenced their life experience CAN be.
I've been thinking about this all night, and it's is a mess. Let me tell you reasons until I get tired /🧵
#SupremeCourtDecision
Read Michelle Obama's full statement on the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision:
"Back in college, I was one of the few Black students on my campus, and I was proud of getting into such a respected school. I knew I'd worked hard for it. But still, I sometimes wondered if people thought I got there because of affirmative action. It was a shadow that students like me couldn’t shake, whether those doubts came from the outside or inside our own minds.
"But the fact is this: I belonged. And semester after semester, decade after decade, for more than half a century, countless students like me showed they belonged, too. It wasn't just the kids of color who benefitted, either. Every student who heard a perspective they might not have encountered, who had an assumption challenged, who had their minds and their hearts opened gained a lot as well. It wasn't perfect, but there's no doubt that it helped offer new ladders of opportunity for those who, throughout our history, have too often been denied a chance to show how fast they can climb.
"Of course, students on my campus and countless others across the country were — and continue to be — granted special consideration for admissions. Some have parents who graduated from the same school. Others have families who can afford coaches to help them run faster or hit a ball harder. Others go to high schools with lavish resources for tutors and extensive standardized test prep that help them score higher on college entrance exams. We don't usually question if those students belong. So often, we just accept that money, power, and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.
"So today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who's wondering what their future holds — and what kinds of chances will be open to them. And while I know the strength and grit that lies inside kids who have always had to sweat a little more to climb the same ladders, I hope and I pray that the rest of us are willing to sweat a little, too.
"Today is a reminder that we've got to do the work not just to enact policies that reflect our values of equity and fairness, but to truly make those values real in all of our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods."