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Jaime, they/them A Millennial who never actually used Twitter much, stumbling about figuring this site out
🚨 Sign the *student-created* petition to *protect the professors*, who’ve dedicated their professional lives to the novel task of teaching college-level courses to high school-age children.
(As of now, all Simon’s Rock professors will lose their very livelihoods at year end.)
In the statement, Bard College President Leon Botstein said the school's success as a pioneering early college led to duplication, and a more crowded marketplace in which a residential early college faced greater competition. He cited as examples the 10 public, early college high school campuses founded by Bard in six states, and more than 1 million high school students nationwide taking early college courses this year. “Because of that success, and the larger national movement which it inspired, demand for the original residential model is less strong than it was when Elizabeth Blodgett Hall founded Simon’s Rock in the 1960s," Botstein said. The move to Bard’s new Massena campus will give the school "flexibility in space that can allow for a more financially viable and educationally rich future for Simon’s Rock by placing it physically closer to Bard's main campus, he said. “By moving the institution," Botstein added, "we are giving Simon’s Rock the opportunity to continue its mission."
This is def. all about turning it into nothing but a brand. Just look at this wild section of the Eagle article about the closure!
20.11.2024 04:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
That new home is the 260-acre former Unification Theological Seminary property, in the adjacent hamlet of Barrytown, which Bard announced last year that it was buying for $14 million, according to the Hudson Valley Pilot. The original home on the property was built in 1796 by John Livingston, the Pilot reported, and called "Massena." In 1975, Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church made the property its U.S. headquarters, according to the Pilot. “We had looked at it three times before as a way to solve our housing problem,” Botstein told the Pilot. “But now we are in the midst of a capital campaign to create new facilities for teaching and learning and everything from faculty offices to studio space and it will be terrific for that.”
Not moving to Bard's main campus, oh no - they purchased a $14 million before any renovations new campus (the same size as the current campus, and previously home to a cult) a town away from the main Bard campus to house the Rock at. Which makes the contract terminations extra super sus tbh.
20.11.2024 04:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jaime
20.11.2024 04:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0!!!! Dan!!!!!! Wow, talk about a blast from the past! Would you believe I have somehow managed to hold onto Llamacon program booklets through all these years?
20.11.2024 04:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We very much were there at the same time. I was there 2005 to 2009 - In the interest of not sharing my name online - I was that nerd who ran the anime club.
20.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington is closing. I went there - truly the end of an era.
www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/sim...
Found out the undergrad I went to, Simon's Rock College of Bard, is closing at the end of this school year. That campus was a life saving refuge for me as a queer teen in the mid 2000s, and it hurts to know it will no longer foster safe growth for future generations of queer youth.
20.11.2024 01:22 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
There are trees with autumn colors, with some clouds behind them lit up with a sunset. The sky is in cream and light blue colors while the clouds are bright orange.
The sun is setting in the distance. The brightness of the sun has slightly distorted the camera, causing there to be a bright red streak right under the sun. It kinda looks like it is holding the sun up, or giving it a hug. The intensity of the sun can be felt through the photo somehow. The grass on the mountain where the photo was taken looks red too.
Sunset again. What can I say, I love sunsets. The sunset is entirely in the background, in the foreground is are some plants, they are in front of the sun. I am not good at plant identification, so "those sure are plants" is sadly the best description I can really give them.
16.11.2024 02:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yet, he lived. He lived despite the odds all being against him. He is recovering well, despite going through medical trauma beyond belief. I am choosing to take away from my nightmare of a summer that even when things seem to be at their worst, there is always reason for hope
15.11.2024 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A person in their mid 30s holding the hand of someone in their mid 80s. Their hands are identical in terms of shape and size, but otherwise bare obvious differences due to age. The hand of the person in their 80s bares several markers revealing that they are in a hospital, including an IV line in their wrist.
I took this photo on the day the doctors told us to say goodbye to my dad. His heart had stopped for the third time, and they could not figure out a reason why. His chances were extremely low. I wanted to forever remember the feel of his hand in mine, and the fact that I have his exact hands.
15.11.2024 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ah, the return of my old nemesis that caused me to leave twitter in the early 2010s - an inability to edit spelling errors, leading to the need to delete what I wrote and post it again outright to correct any mistakes.
15.11.2024 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We got the results of his most recent EKG back this week, and his heart is entirely in normal ranges now. Had you told me this during the summer - when he was in a two month long induced coma and his heart would stop every three days (once for fifteen whole minutes!) - I would not have believed you
15.11.2024 15:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It feels weird posting about this in a new account - but I should mention that my 84-year-old father is currently recovering from a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery. This has been a wild year full of all kinds of trauma, but at the very least my dad seems to be recovering well.
15.11.2024 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0To clarify, I am apt to sit and watch the sunset regardless of the time of year. However, I do it far more often during this time of year, when it is far more doable during day hikes. Watching the sun rise on the other hand remains an activity I reserve for overnight trips. Even then I may sleep in.
15.11.2024 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a photo of a sunset, taken from a lookout on some rocks on top of a hill that thinks it is a mountain in Connecticut. There are trees with autumn leaves still on them framing each side of the photo. The sun looks like a squished egg yolk, and that orange color has permeated the surrounding sky. There are also blue clouds, almost the same shade of blue as the mountains in the distance the sun is dipping behind. Above you can see the sky - still blue and bright above the orange shades closer to the sun. You can see the rock the photo was taken from in the foreground. It is covered in freshly fallen leaves. Between it and the mountains in the distance are first some trees (who still have leaves) and then the green expanse of a valley.
This is basically the exact same photo as the first one, just with a landscape orientation showing off more of the surrounding trees. Also, it was taken a bit earlier, so the colors of the sunset are more washed out - kinda like a watercolor painting. The trees are dark in contrast to the hues of the sunset.
It's that same exact sunset again! This one is at least from a slightly different angle, so you see more of the trees leading down to the valley. Also, since this was taken after the other two, the colors are even more muted here, making the clouds - still blue! - look that much more dramatic.
Sometimes - while hiking during the time of year when the sun sets in the mid-afternoon - I sit and watch a sunset at length. In the end I wind up with a ton of photos of a gorgeous sunset, and have an absurd attachment to all of them, so it is hard to determine which pictures are worth sharing.
15.11.2024 15:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If anyone ever decides to follow this account, expect hiking photos, generally nerd nonsense and all of it presented to you with a healthy dose of unapologetic queerness.
15.11.2024 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I never really was a fan of short form social media sites, but I am going to give this one a try. The project of getting people to leave the bird site is an admirable one, and I am interested to see if a migration away is truly possible.
15.11.2024 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
