Megan Heffernan

Former DePaul players and ex-Bull Antonio Blakeney charged in scheme to rig games In the 70-page indictment, authorities say fixers recruited the college basketball players with "bribe payments" usually ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 per game.

so, my employer is defunding libraries while building a $60 million gym to be used only by athletes . . . teams that have accepted bribes to lose games

chicago.suntimes.com/college-spor...

A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers.

Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.

smart mamma!

wait now i am curious: why were you not raised with santa? are there xians who don't revere him? (this feels both V naive and like a genuine revelation to me!)

done without consulting faculty

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines

frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact"
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Faculty were not consulted about these courses of action.

Kind of. Also depaul faulty here. The reference is to the library on the campus in downtown Chicago. The library on the Lincoln park campus, half an hour away, is not facing closure but still deep cuts to staff. Many students and faculty are wholly based downtown in the loop.

😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.

Kind of. Also depaul faulty here. The reference is to the library on the campus in downtown Chicago. The library on the Lincoln park campus, half an hour away, is not facing closure but still deep cuts to staff. Many students and faculty are wholly based downtown in the loop.

thanks for sharing this!

Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

City orders closing of unlicensed massage parlor in Jefferson Park - Nadig Newspapers - Northwest Side Local Newspapers by BRIAN NADIG The city Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection has ordered the closing of an allegedly unlicensed spa at

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"the storefront was previously home to a lice clinic."

indubitably.

my boyfriend used to live in that building! last year there was a bust to shut down an unlicensed "massage parlor" that was also without signage, had a red light in the window, and ushered its customers out the back door.

so very sorry for your loss. be well.

go for broke and hit 19. only 5 left to knock out tomorrow before breakfast.

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

Demonstrators block entrance at Broadview ICE facility: 'They know Chicago doesn’t want ICE in our city' Protesters staged a sit-in and stopped vehicles trying to come in and out of the facility Friday morning. Earlier police ordered tents they had set up to be removed.

HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

y'all are heroes! thank you so much!

Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7!

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i almost sent you this!

excellent!

dude on the right is sinister AF. def my kill

in order from right to left? i disagree.

oh this is good! my course packet is locked down, alas, but next time i'll add this. this time, i have gunn's "the missing" in a unit on elegies

BRILLIANT. whitman in general, really

crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?

. . . and dirt bag medievalisms: mic drop

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