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Hey guys, better hustle on over to the registrar.  Over at RenewAmerica, Mr. DiCintio is teaching an A.P. class in sarcasm.  (Who’s Mr. DiCintio?  Well, let’s let him tell it…) A.J. DiCintio is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing [...]

That was very weak, Chronicle. Really quite horrid and unprofessional.OK, some ding-a-ling professor goes crazy in Georgia (eek!), gets postal with it at a community theater reunion, and The Chronicle of Higher Education reports it. All of this is to be expected. Except that the Chronicle, in the absence of real information, [...]

Mike Mayo Michael “mike” mayo, jr (born october 22), better known under his ring name mike kruel, is an american professional wrestler, who mostly worked in wwe’s developmental territory. Clsa’s mike mayo starts us banks with underperform rating key: good quality average quality poor quality hot rating left by a registered user flag this rating e [...]

I was looking up a friend’s home page on the web via  google.  The third entry gave me  her “RateMyProfessors” page.  And I  could rate her.  I would need to enter a class name or number, which would be pretty easy to get.  Given women are typically given less good ratings, [...]

It used to be really tricky & expensive to find people. Finding speakers. Finding venues. Finding attendees. You needed contacts & experience & these were high barriers to entry. It’s still hard to put on an event but the economics have changed. Finding speakers is not hard – altho finding good speakers is more [...]

Now that the winter break is over, college students are inundated with work and need to worry again about classes, studying, and tests. So, of course, they’ll spend time on Facebook instead. But there are other useful and entertaining sites worth the student’s visit. This is a brief list of four outstanding resources that [...]

Evan Schwartz, a sophomore, urges students to contribute thoughtful reviews to RateMyProfessors.com. “For a site like ratemyprofessor to truly work, more contributions and more opinions will create a better collective product. Comment on all of your professors, regardless of your grade in the class. And if you didn’t do too well, [...]

Over on the Crooked Timber site (where a group of political scientists hang out), Henry Farrell reports  in a 1/22/09 piece entitled “Hotties and Notties”: In 2006, James Felton, Peter T. Koper, John Mitchell and Michael Stinson  conducted research  that sought to establish,  inter alia  how perceived hotness of professors affected [...]

Crooked Timber presents this ranking of academic fields, based on the “hotness” ratings at RateMyProfessors. We econ profs don’t do so well. Hmmm…maybe I should have finished that law degree I started. FYI, here is my ratings page , which makes me wonder whether any student takes this activity seriously.
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