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Can deans make the final decision of academic misconduct without a review by a faculty panel if requested? According to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) — an organization that works to develop academic freedom and shared governance in higher education — the answer is no.

Faculty adjudication processes have been one of the most prominent issues for the UW Faculty Senate this year. They have been discussing complications of an accused faculty member having the opportunity to present his case to a panel composed of colleagues in order to challenge allegations, which is what occurs under the Faculty Adjudication Procedure.

Janelle Taylor, a UW faculty senator who is also president of AAUP’s UW chapter, became concerned about the adjudication process after assistant research professor Andrew Aprikyan was terminated for scientific misconduct last year. Former

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This past football season the Utes ended with 10 Wins, 3 Losses, and roughly 104 tons of garbage in the Salt Lake County landfill.

I know what its like.  When I’m at football games my trash is furthest from my mind.  That pizza box, or hotdog wrapper, or that sticky soda cup gets tossed under my seat, and becomes someone elses problem.  When I was younger I knew people came through the stands later and picked up our trash, but I never knew – much less cared – where it went.  Its estimated that each home game generates roughly 8 tons of trash, and the landfill where it all ends up is a prolific emitter of greenhouse gasses like methane, which is contributing to global climate change.

So obviously, we football fans should reduce our collective stadium waste. Or recycle it.  Or compost it.  But how best to do that?

In the fall of 2010 some ASUU students created an online petition calling for better recycling at Rice Eccles Stadium.  They called for student volunteers to help collect plastic bottles and cans into red and white Coca Cola bins, as people entered or exited the stadium.  Other volunteers ventured into the tailgating areas and faced a “harsh environment” of boisterous and inebriated fans, by some accounts.  After games they also tried gathering recyclable materials in the stands before the trash crews got to them. Norah Olley, the B

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Red Square is a prime location for spotting members of religious groups handing out flyers or missionaries approaching students on their way to class. Dozens of religious-based student organizations are present on campus, making it hard not to have a run-in with faith at some point.

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“It doesn’t necessarily matter what religion you are, as long as you’re pursuing something greater than [yourself].”

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“Faith helps me to stay strong and push through the hard times.”

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“I think religion is very important when it comes to your happiness. It brings meaning for me.”

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“Just make s

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On Valentine’s Day we celebrate the pleasures of romantic love with special outings, flowers, and chocolates. But hand in hand with the wonders of love come disappointment and betrayal. If you haven’t been hurt you haven’t loved. I learned this (and more) during the five years that my students and I studied the experience of romantic love. Over 1,000 adults responded to our Internet survey on love, with more than half saying they had experienced some form of betrayal. The most common, experienced by over 300 people, was sexual infidelity. One of the most poignant questions, posed in several of the letters I have received since the publication of my book, Love Stories of Later Life, is “If I become involved with someone else when my spouse has Alzheimer’s am I committing adultery?”

The technical answer is yes . . . and no. New York’s

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The blog post below is a guest post by Amy Silver, a Public Health student at Kaplan University. She has recently started blogging, and you can follow her at twitter.com/amyjsilver.

College is time for learning, as much through experimentation as in the classroom. However, there are some majors that simply don’t prepare those who study them to face the onslaught that is the real world, where profits and losses are the driving forces.

Unless you aim to be employed by a non-profit organization, you’d do well to avoid any deep study of the following majors. The information taught in classes that will land you the respective degrees are likely to be unedifying and won’t do much for your career!

1. Theology. Few majors teach as controversial of a topic as the subject matter involved with a study of all things holy. Since scientists have discredited religious texts in numerous ways, the deep study of these writings seems to be the deep study of what some fellows came up with off the top of their heads thousands of years ago. Worse Read more…