Wednesday, February 27, 2019

They're coming, you know



Study of American Democracy on Cal State Chopping Block
(Inside Higher Ed)
     Historians across the California State University System are voicing concerns about a new general education task force report that recommends halving the six-credit U.S. history and government requirement in place on most campuses.
     The university system says it hasn’t even formally received the faculty-led report yet and that it remains a mere set of ideas.
     Still, some professors worry that Cal State’s six-credit requirement has long been a target for those who see it as a barrier to completion.
     “Students here do a lot of work in U.S. history and government -- it’s a rigorous course of study, and we stand to lose that right now,” said Bridget Ford, professor of history at Cal State’s East Bay campus and a critic of the general education task force report. “We’re worried about what democracy in our state will look like without it.” …. [continued]


When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row



We are the Village Green Preservation Society
God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety

We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society
God save strawberry jam and all the different varietiesPreserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways, for me and for you

What more can we do?


I was born, lucky me
In a land that I love
Though I am poor, I am free
When I grow I shall fight
For this land I shall die
Let her sun never set
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, 'toria
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, 'toria
Land of hope and gloria
Land of my Victoria
Land of hope and gloria
Land of my Victoria
Victoria, 'toria
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, 'toria....
STEM Education Is Vital--but Not at the Expense of the Humanities
(Scientific American)
Politicians trying to dump humanities education will hobble our economy
By THE EDITORS on October 1, 2016

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...