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HASS Hour
"He ate and drank the precious Words - / His Spirit grew robust -" Emily Dickinson
WHEN: Thursday, February 18, 2010
WHERE: Hamilton’s Steak and Seafood
COST: $6.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) appetizer buffet which will be billed on an individual basis.
Guests will also be able to order off the regular menu if desired.
TIME: 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Steven Simms, Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology
Natalie Archibald, HASS Dean’s office
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Story Idea: Cache Valley Peace Works
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Peace Vigils
Peace activists in Cache Valley across the country started holding peace vigils in their communities on Fridays right after the U.S. invaded Iraq (the second time). These modest statements for peace continue, umpteen years later.
Cache Valley Peace Works is the local organizing group, holding the weekly peace vigils as well as sponsoring occasional peace marches and events.
These people might make an interesting in-depth feature, and their regular weekly vigil could serve as a symbol of their unflagging dedication to peace—in Iraq, Afghanistan and globally. A recent email from Brenda Chung, a CVPW organizer, reads: “We have revised the peace vigil schedule to 5:30 - 6 PM every Friday, at the same place in front of the Tabernacle. Hope you can make it to the shortened vigil more regularly .... soon we'll be marking the sad milestone of the 1000th U.S. military death in the war in Afghanistan .... and yet another anniversary of the Iraq war is just around the corner.”
Peace,
Brenda Chung
Anyone interested?
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Peace Vigils
Peace activists in Cache Valley across the country started holding peace vigils in their communities on Fridays right after the U.S. invaded Iraq (the second time). These modest statements for peace continue, umpteen years later.
Cache Valley Peace Works is the local organizing group, holding the weekly peace vigils as well as sponsoring occasional peace marches and events.
These people might make an interesting in-depth feature, and their regular weekly vigil could serve as a symbol of their unflagging dedication to peace—in Iraq, Afghanistan and globally. A recent email from Brenda Chung, a CVPW organizer, reads: “We have revised the peace vigil schedule to 5:30 - 6 PM every Friday, at the same place in front of the Tabernacle. Hope you can make it to the shortened vigil more regularly .... soon we'll be marking the sad milestone of the 1000th U.S. military death in the war in Afghanistan .... and yet another anniversary of the Iraq war is just around the corner.”
Peace,
Brenda Chung
Anyone interested?
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Story Idea: Guns on Campus
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Pistol-Packin’ Profs?
News Hounds:
You may have heard on the national news the story about a biology professor at UAlabama-Huntsville who walked into a faculty meeting on campus Friday and gunned down th
ree of her fellow professors. This is a chilling story on many levels, but it has particular resonance for professors, both those who are on tenure-track and those who sit on their promotion committees.
The AP story is here.
How about a story on the pressures of promotion & tenure at USU?
Meanwhile, on page B7 of the Herald Journal this morning (Sunday), I found the interesting juxtaposition of an ad for “Concealed Firearms Permit of Utah” (www.CFPofUtah.com), which is holding “ONE TIME 4-HOUR CLASS” with “Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor DEX TAYLOR” in Logan Thursday 2/18 from 6-10 p.m. and Saturday 2/20 from 8 a.m.-noon.
And/or a story about Utah’s concealed weapons law, which is an issue story all by itself. (Some years ago, the then-president of the UofU, Bernie Meacham (?) denied firearms on his campus. The Legislature, in retaliation, garnished his salary and that of top U administrators. Guns have no place on a college campus, he argued. It’s state law, gun proponents responded.)
So do guns belong on campuses? From the Virginia Tech massacre a couple of years ago to various others (Google ’em), (including a friend of mine, a J prof at a Missouri college, who was murdered by a student in his own driveway many years ago...), guns on campuses have resulted in headline-making killings. Proponents say that permitting guns on campuses will make everyone safer, because the “good guys” will be armed when the whackos start shooting, and so can protect the rest of us. But that scenario has never happened.....
TP
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Pistol-Packin’ Profs?
News Hounds:
You may have heard on the national news the story about a biology professor at UAlabama-Huntsville who walked into a faculty meeting on campus Friday and gunned down th
ree of her fellow professors. This is a chilling story on many levels, but it has particular resonance for professors, both those who are on tenure-track and those who sit on their promotion committees.The AP story is here.
How about a story on the pressures of promotion & tenure at USU?
Meanwhile, on page B7 of the Herald Journal this morning (Sunday), I found the interesting juxtaposition of an ad for “Concealed Firearms Permit of Utah” (www.CFPofUtah.com), which is holding “ONE TIME 4-HOUR CLASS” with “Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor DEX TAYLOR” in Logan Thursday 2/18 from 6-10 p.m. and Saturday 2/20 from 8 a.m.-noon.
And/or a story about Utah’s concealed weapons law, which is an issue story all by itself. (Some years ago, the then-president of the UofU, Bernie Meacham (?) denied firearms on his campus. The Legislature, in retaliation, garnished his salary and that of top U administrators. Guns have no place on a college campus, he argued. It’s state law, gun proponents responded.)So do guns belong on campuses? From the Virginia Tech massacre a couple of years ago to various others (Google ’em), (including a friend of mine, a J prof at a Missouri college, who was murdered by a student in his own driveway many years ago...), guns on campuses have resulted in headline-making killings. Proponents say that permitting guns on campuses will make everyone safer, because the “good guys” will be armed when the whackos start shooting, and so can protect the rest of us. But that scenario has never happened.....
TP
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