I work at a midwestern public university that’s not very diverse ethnically. I think we even have fewer African-American undergrads than Michigan and Michigan State, which don’t use affirmative action.

It’s catchy but an insult to chimpanzees to compare them to Trump voters. I think the chimpanzees are more intelligent.

Hopefully Clarence Thomas retires during the presidency of a Democrat and they nominate Obama to replace him.

My late mother trained the dog to pee on Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, and Trump signs in people’s yards. She changed his route so he could hit streets that had more signs on them. This is also the same woman who made a special trip to the scary Wal-Mart in Racine to make sure that there were still white flat sheets…

For undergrads, it depends on how much their institution covers in their student fees. Where I went to school, you could go see a doctor if you weren’t feeling well and needed either a prescription or a doctor’s note to get you excused from class. You also got free cough syrup, condoms, and other medication too.

This decision is likely to have negative consequences for Notre Dame for both faculty/staff and students. As far as the faculty/staff side, it’s going to make retaining and recruiting people much more difficult, especially if they aren’t Catholic.

George W. Bush and his administration are still awful but compared to Trump and his merry gang of oligarchs, fascists, and fundamentalists, they don’t seem that bad in retrospect. Of all of Bush’s picks, Ashcroft and Gonzalez would be the only ones that would be right at home in the Trump administration. Rumsfeld and…

Glacier is a great example of how much of any major park is a mix of government and privately run services.

You make a great point about $70 for entry not being cheap for teachers and other public sector workers. Currently, the NPS has free entry for active military personnel and their families. Perhaps that program could be expanded to include all public sector workers, state, municipal and federal. Most of us have some…

The other aspect of that is that when you work at a place with separate time banks for sick leave and vacation, it’s awfully convenient how your colleagues’ kids get “sick” close to the holidays or on a Friday/Monday. It’s even more suspicious when you know they don’t have much vacation left as it’s now close to the…

Assuming that the Packers lose this weekend with Huntley, Kaep could be getting a call early next week from the Packers. He’s a decent quarterback and a decent person. I’ll take him over the slimy and fake Russell Wilson who rubbed me the wrong way during his graduate transfer year with the Badgers. Wilson has that…

My late grandmother was convinced that my mother’s orange tabby princess cat was the spawn of Satan simply because the cat has the doesn’t give a fuck vibe. She’s the only cat that could get away with being on counters and furniture without sheets because it was an exercise in futility keeping her off.

Your take on how complicated and competitive it is for schools to attract top tier faculty, researchers, and grad students plus grant money is dead on. It’s not just athletics that has that effect on a school - the negative impact of state politics can have an equally harmful effect.

It’s a problem that happens at every university with big time athletics. It’s no coincidence that student athletes are in the group that gets to register early. The ones participating in revenue sports get directed by counselors in the student athlete academic center to easier and more open ended classes, most often…

It’s really a shame that Jerry Jones wouldn’t have the same hard line stance on perpetrators of domestic violence like Ezekiel Elliot as he does on the peaceful protesters trying to bring attention to the inequalities and imperfections in this country.    

So far the Big 10 basketball teams seem less likely to be targets with only Adidas and Nike being under investigation. Michigan, OSU, Iowa, Michigan State and Iowa all have Nike deals, but the football programs are the reason. I’d be more worried about Big 10 basketball if the FBI starts looking into Under Armour,…

I was in both concert, marching and pep band in high school and coming from a small school in Northern Illinois, almost all sporting events including football and basketball games were mandatory. We also had to perform at the graduation and baccalaureate ceremony, which was held on school property. That was mandatory…

It’s news that UNC players decided to attend classes, but anything to avoid meeting with the Cheetoman in Chief.

The whole 2004 Illinois Senate race was very strange to put it mildly. Obama was an underdog in the Democratic primary and only started to surge during the last couple weeks before the primary once money started pouring in for TV ads and he got some key endorsements. I was in college at UIUC at the time and he was…

I’m honestly shocked that none of my family here in Wisconsin has ever gotten married at Lambeau Field.