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  1. RU Rah Rah
    Everyone knows that the best bathrooms in the country are at the John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan. (Really. There are awards for such things.)
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    It does seem a little too perfect, given the circumstances -- and with the Yankees probably not wanting the steroid thing to overshadow the opening of the new stadium. But I guess it's possible that it's just a coincidence.
  3. RU Rah Rah
    I've never thought Fallon was very funny (at all), but I can remember Conan starting off slowly, too.
  4. RU Rah Rah
    The A's could be interesting, if Cabrera and Giambi still have gas left in the tank.
  5. RU Rah Rah
    Whenever I see his name, it reminds me of Moxy Fruvous.
  6. RU Rah Rah
    No, I think you have a legit concern over how the online discussion is (not) working. Without overtly mentioning your grade, you might email the prof about how s/he might tweak the format a little so that the discussion isn't just a last-minute rush job for everyone. It sounds like your interest in getting a better grade dovetails with his/her interest in having a real online discussion -- and there's nothing wrong with that (as long as you're cool about asking).
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    Oh, for my smaller, upper-level courses, I will post the essay questions online. I do think that's a more meaningful intellectual enterprise -- making them think through stuff, and render arguments on paper, etc. But for an intro course with 400 students total (spread out over two sections) and no TA's, I have to go the scantron route. I am absolutely not a fan of multiple choice tests, but to prepare for them, students do have to show some discipline and organizational skills. Those are things that they will have to rely on out in the real world (albeit in different contexts).
  8. RU Rah Rah
    For me, the big thing in the early season will be the rotation, and maybe the 3B situation (to a far lesser extent). Oh, and Rickie, too.
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    I think that online instruction, like any form of pedagogy, has potential strengths and weaknesses -- and how these manifest themselves depends a great deal on both the instructor and the student. (Lazy students are going to find a way to be lazy, whatever the course format. Same thing for bad instructors.) What frustrates me is that the students in my traditional lecture course insist on having online delivery of course materials in addition to the lectures. I will cover basic course material five ways: 1.) orally, while lecturing; 2.) via PowerPoint in lecture; 3.) in assigned readings; 4.) on a study guide (available on D2L) that highlights all of the relevant material that will be on the exams; and 5.) in give-and-take in a D2L discussion forum that I set up before every exam. I am very explicit that this is the way it's going to work, and I think it's a good deal. (When I was an undergrad, we only got #1 and #3.) Is this easy enough for students? No. They repeatedly demand that I post the PowerPoint slides and my own notes on D2L -- even though I state on my syllabus that I won't do it. If this trend continues, in 5-10 years the demand will be posting the exam questions (and answers?) online ahead of time.
  10. RU Rah Rah
    This is exactly why I don't send out the slides, or post them online.
  11. RU Rah Rah
    My student also don't know how to take notes, or simply don't want to.
  12. RU Rah Rah
    You have to wonder about these players living in a bubble. I'm sure Manny's "people" are telling him that he holds all the cards, etc.
  13. RU Rah Rah
    So, if you're teaching now, how would you deal with teaching a student with this same attitude?
  14. RU Rah Rah
    This strikes me, too. If you're "not making complete sense," then this isn't strictly a job interview question; it's a matter of figuring out if your brain is ok, and quickly.
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    Same here. What's ironic is that I was a pretty laid-back student in my day. I drank, goofed off, etc. -- very typical undergrad experience. But ultimately I took ownership of my education and did the things that needed to be done without too much complaint or reliance on my parents. I once handled admissions for an undergrad major at UW-Madison, and we routinely rejected half of all the applicants. You wouldn't believe how many irate parents I had to soothe every semester. What made it especially difficult was that the students would feed misinformation to their parents about their grades/activities/the admissions process. A very typical conversation would involve a parent saying, "Well, Jane's roommate had a lower GPA and fewer activities, and she got into the major. That's not right!" These parents never seemed to realize that maybe -- just maybe -- Jane wasn't providing the entire story about her roommate's record, or her own. I also think that somehow the cultural norms about arguing have changed. I think there's more of a sense now that you have a right to complain/argue with anyone, anywhere, any time, about anything. My students will argue with me about policies clearly stated on the syllabus -- policies that they knew about on day one of the course and accepted.
  16. RU Rah Rah
    I turned it on and just saw that horrible musical number with Hugh Jackman and Beyonce. I turned to my wife and said, "Well, at least Jon Stewart will come on now and make fun of it." But then she informed me that Hugh Jackman was the host. Off went the TV. I watched the end of Cavs v. Pistons.
  17. RU Rah Rah
    And it's not like attending is difficult, in any real sense. You just have to: 1.) get up from where you're sitting; 2.) point yourself toward the appropriate classroom; and 3.) sit down once you get there. Could there be an easier way to earn points in a class? And yet students kick and scream about doing it . . . and reading . . . and taking notes . . . and preparing for exams. Indeed, in my experience, the only things that students don't complain about are: 1.) watching films/YouTube and 2.) listening to music. Everything else seems like a big, fat hassle.
  18. RU Rah Rah
    Another pet peeve of mine: plagiarism/cheating. It's amazingly hard to actually punish students for doing this. I once caught two cheaters absolutely red-handed and then spent over a year defending my decision to give them a C in the course. (Somehow, they wanted to be considered above average, despite having been caught cheating on the final paper.)
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    I continue to be amazed by student behavior. Outright grade-grubbing has gotten out of control. (I routinely get asked to change grades simply to make students feel better -- not because of any apparent errors on exams or papers.) And it's been accompanied by a drop in effort. In the big lecture course that I teach, my students routinely ask me to post all of the notes and PowerPoint slides online -- you know, so they don't actually have to attend said lecture and take notes. (Apparently I'm a tyrant because I expect them to show up twice a week.) I'm also obliged to provide a detailed study guide before every exam -- and God help me if that document doesn't include every last possible question. Also, there is now an expectation that students somehow possess a constitutional right to extra credit.
  20. RU Rah Rah
    He made the mistake, I think, of locking himself into a narrative. He would have been better off, in the long run, just saying, "I did steroids and I'm sorry." Now, the issue isn't going to be A-Rod the steroid user; it's going to be A-Rod the liar. (Worse still, A-Rod the phony apologizer.)
  21. RU Rah Rah
    FWIW, one Vegas over/under for the Brewers is 85.5.
  22. RU Rah Rah
    Stunt wedding/proposal = major pet peeve of mine
  23. RU Rah Rah
    I'm sure it would be a similar reaction to what we've seen here. Maybe a little more venom, but we're just not that kind of people. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif(Laughs.) Not a bad thing -- the relative lack of venom, I mean.
  24. RU Rah Rah
    Did you really just compare the cubs/brewers to the red sox/yankees? Wow. What about Harry Carey? He was with the cubs main 2 rivals before he went to the cubs and was an ADMITTED Cards fan. He seemed to do pretty well. The kid could end up not only being a great hire, but he could end up being just as good as powell someday, and may become a staple within the brewer family for years to come. My point being that the Yankees are most hated rival of the Red Sox, as the Cubs are the most hated rival of the Brewers. ( Obviously, the rivalry isn't nearly as old, etc. I understand that.) And if you read the whole thread, you'll see that I am willing to give the guy a chance, if he proves talented. I was mainly speculating about how another fan base would react in a roughly analogous situation.
  25. RU Rah Rah
    I am just trying to imagine what the fan reaction would be if the Red Sox announced, "We're hiring a 30-year old Yankee fan to call our games on the radio."
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