Dani Wenner

15 of 17 Tartan Scholars Ambassadors resign, citing lack of support for program - The Tartan On Friday, Feb. 27, 15 out of the 17 Tartan Scholars Ambassadors — student workers who help facilitate the Tartan Scholars program — announced their

Really distressed to read about our Tartan Scholars program being so under-supported that the student ambassadors would resign en masse. CMU just opened a $100M robotics center in Hazelwood, we can't afford more than 2 full-time staff to support this important program??

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

"Static" non-ideal theories of exploitation take structural injustice as a fixed background. Danielle M. Wenner and Derrick F. Gray argue this inadvertently serves an ideological function, reinforcing unjust conditions rather than challenging them.

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

CMU increasing daily administrative burden by now making us sign into every single microsoft office product, even if already signed into a CMU account on the computer, the CMU network, CMU email, and every other CMU server already wtf are we doing here

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration:

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I would prefer to hold my tongue. the first time I read this review I was absolutely stunned to read such faint praise coming from him about TJ. I was only recalled to it today when I read the opening of Feinberg's review.

lol your interpretation is far more charitable than mine

This is already a famous and influential book, and inevitably for a certain time it will engage the attention of students of philosophy, politics, law, and economics. The longer life of a work and its broader impact on the habits of thought of reflective persons can never be predicted with certainty, but it is an interesting question. Although A Theory of Justice is for the most part very readable, it does not possess the literary distinction that has helped to make other important political works-those of Hobbes or Mill, for example-part of the common intellectual property of mankind.

There is no need to summarize the argument of this philosophical epic. In its basic outline it is sufficiently well known to the readers of this journal from Rawls's articles over the last twenty years. In this book Rawls has filled in gaps in the argument, answered numerous critical objections, applied his thoery to problems of justice in politics, economics, education, and other important areas, and buttressed it with a theory of moral psychology and other argumentative reinforcement. The result is a remarkably thorough treatise which well deserves to be called a philosophical classic.

Nagel (L) and Feinberg (R), each writing in 1973, expressing very different views about the likely future place of Rawlsian liberalism in political theory

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

holy shit this is a lot, hold that little one close tonight my friend I'm so glad you're all alright

The Superbowl, it is gatekept by the talented athletes! *clutches pearls*

When a student says they're having fun in class discussions and really enjoying the challenge of our readings: this is what it's all about folks

in retrospect we really all should have been doing this all along

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

deprives the city of any ability to hold negligent property owners, particularly landlords, accountable for anything or to raise revenues that can be used for these processes

it's like: a warning with 30 days to bring your property into compliance, then an inspection, then a citation if still not in compliance, then after another 30 days if still not they take you to court... 30 days later. it's how they do overgrowth and other property issues too. it's a mess and really

and the icing on the cake is that these rules are codified in state law so they are not something we have the power to change locally

(you are not in pa so will have to trust me when I tell you that the pa state legislature is where all hope goes to die, it is utterly dysfunctional in every way)

they are an absolute mess here and last night at a community meeting what we heard from the mayor's office was that the process for fining property owners for this kind of thing is 90 days long, requiring multiple inspections, by which time the snow is gone and it is pointless 1/2

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Finding multiple grammatical errors introduced in a previous round of proofing during a round of proofing at which edits are no longer permitted 💀💀💀

Few people have as much contempt for academic research as university administrators

It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.

I'm really fucking tired of grading AI slop from students. Why even come to university if you don't want to learn? You are wasting your time and mine.