Today's Topic:
Student Union. Discuss,
Says The Chronicle "People are tired of the shame and silence about sex," say sex trainers Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller in the October 26, 2007 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Hollywood, Academia, Liberals tell us non-stop that our culture does not talk enough about sex. We are constantly told that We need to have a national conversation about sex.

This is, of course, nonsense. Our culture is a non-stop broadcast of sex-talk.

(Where were these liberals when Bill Clinton brought X-Rated testimony about various sex acts into our living rooms?)

The Chronicle of Higher Education gives the sex educators the platform to showcase "A line of little buttons that college students seem to be into, each one with a single sex word on it -- words like kiss, hug, squeeze, stroke, thrust..."

Goodness. The buttons are, it seem, to help us all to talk more about sex.

As if there is not enough talk already.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Lynn Lavner says, "The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."

And let's not forget homosexual/transsexual sex brought to our institutions of higher learning by sex-experts Solot and MIller,

Whatever your level of comfort and knowledge with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, this professional training will give you a chance to learn about GLBT lives and experiences, get answers to your questions, and take away practical tips for working and interacting with GLBT people on campus, in your workplace, or as clients.

I love female org@sm logo also available on Babydoll (girly) t-shirts -- $12

"Had any lately?" buttons were not seen on the web site.

Your Business Blogger would advise his students not wear any such 'conversation starters' on a job interview.

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Higher Education can get edgy.

Alert Reader David with a dot edu asked about The Chronicle of Higher Education,

"Most every issue has nude photos of women (art, of course) that is Not Safe for Work."

I have never noticed a nude photo of women in the chronicle. But I will watch this space closely for your alerts of such issues, so I can be properly offended of course.

David is merely using the "I didn't notice" defense. (Number 3 in The Complete Married Man's Guide To Spousal Responses.) Proving that there is a gentleman in academia.

He might be about the only one left.

The offensive photos are usually on the End Page. Here's a sampler,

And Your Business Blogger's favorite, (I guess):

Professor Diana York Blaine

OK, so Professor Diana York Blaine was not actually pictured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Not yet.

There is an uncensored photo of Professor Diana York Blaine, a Professor of Womyn's Studies, floating about. But, like, who'd care?

One conservative female pundit once quipped that the entire feminist movement could have been averted if a few guys took a local budding feminist to the prom in high school. To keep these womyn from being so angry.

If a young man simply took Diana York Blaine on a date...

...

Nevermind.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See more education at The Chronicle category and here.

Outside The Beltway has the nude Blaine story.

Professor Diana York Blaine is a lunar worshipper,

Every morning, then, I hit my knees and I pray to the moon goddess. Should I be ashamed of my god? She doesn't seem any more ridiculous to me than anybody else's deity, and as I have said, at least I can see manifest proof of a power greater than myself in the presence of that orb. Plus I’m named for her, so there’s a cool connection. And what do I ask her? To help us all find peace. To help me be an instrument of peace in the world. To help me find that peace in myself before I even try to move out into the community and encourage others to change as well. To walk through the day in serenity with a light heart because I deserve to be here and she loves me.

The moon loves her. In another less tolerant, less enlighten day we had a name for such lost souls:

Lunatic.

Just another professor in academia.

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"Francis, Jamaica Plain, Mass.," 1971 Your Business Blogger eagerly awaits each issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. And not just for the articles...

Most every issue has nude photos of women (art, of course) that is Not Safe for Work.

Not family friendly. View and get fired.

Unless you are self-employed -- or in the academy where no professor is ever terminated for sex offenses including seducing co-eds (whether by grades or degrees). (Although Professor Leacher does sometimes get caught.)

Alert Readers will remember the, well, uninhibited, photo shoots of Professor Diana York Blaine. NSFW.

Not family friendly.

But times might be changing even if The Chronicle doesn't. Charmaine et. al. recently spoke at Princeton University where the faculty were most proud of recent human resource changes to encourage parents with children.

To be more family friendly. Princeton should be proud.

Princeton is on the right (tenure) track.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to see academic marketing from Princeton University Press.

Full Disclosure: Charmaine's dissertation was on family leave policies and tenure in academia. More at the jump.

Photos by Henry Horenstein in the article Family on Film, April 6, 2007, B19. The photos are of "...[M]y people...I grew up with as a kid... and met along the way...while making that awkward transition from adolescence to adulthood." The relationship with the nude woman is not described. And I really don't want to know the details.

Although it is surely a topic of academic discussion.

Continue Reading »

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"Beats me. It's yesterday's news, it's hard copy,
and you have to pay for it."

The Chronicle of Higher Education gets it right. This time without nudity.

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The cartoon is from The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2006. Used with attribution, but without permission.

For more on chronicling The Chronicle, see the archives. Adult content.

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The pretensions of the intellectual elite. More authenticity from Princeton University Press, as advertised in The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Marketing. A catchy title would ordinarily sell books. Like half nekked women can sell calendars.

Your Business Blogger recently came across "Professor" Frankfurt's book in the remainder bin at a book chain store. It's a wee little volumn. Very thin. The cites for St. Augustine were thinner. I didn't buy it. And nobody else did either.

I've read better blogs.

Here's a sample from the first chapter of what "one of the world's most influential moral philosophers" has to say about...cow manure:

. . .we have no clear understanding of what bullsh*t is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullsh*t, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis.

I shall not consider the rhetorical uses and misuses of bullsh*t. My aim is simply to give a rough account of what bullsh*t is and how it differs from what it is not--or (putting it somewhat differently) to articulate, more or less sketchily, the structure of its concept.

The "structure of its concept?"

Well. Wasn't there someone, anyone, at Princeton University Press with enough class to tell this, this academic writer that the book is merely juvenile?

Slate loved it. Of course. ("The Bush administration is clearly more bullsh*t-heavy than its predecessors.")

Who would want tuition dollars to go to these... educators? Now that's bullsh*t.

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Be sure to see more advanced learning, more higher education at Pin-Up Grrrls at The Chronicle of Higher Education

Yvonne has book cover wisdom.

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Not everything is Ugly that comes out of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

A most useful article appeared in the recent edition. Professor Robert Wolverton at Mississippi State University asked one hundred students to list beautiful words; ugly words. Here's the list. A pin-up reminder for wordsmiths and marketers.

Beautiful

Love
Serendipity
Lovely
Luminous
Melody
Beautiful
Lavender
Lily
Eloquent
Euphoric
Glorious
Gorgeous
Grace
Happy
Harmony
Heaven
Onomatopoeia
Passion

Ugly

Pus
Vomit
Fungus
Death
Mucus
Puke
Ugly
Cacophony
Hate
Mullet
Phlegm
Pimple
Snot

Your Business Blogger is euphoric over the harmony in this gorgeous list. I wasn't expecting this from The Chronicle. Love the Serendipity.

I can't wait to see what the pre-teen Dude does with the ugly, snot, pus list.

See more of The Chronicle at Str*ppers.

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May not be safe for work. Following pictures are from institutions of higher learning. Your boss may be a boob who wouldn't understand.

Professor Diana York Blaine Ms. Mentor has a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Where she recently asked,

All right, Ms. Mentor will admit it: Many professors do behave weirdly.

I suppose. But let's not step on on Dr. Diana York Blaine's first amendment freedoms. Professor Blaine "teaches" women's studies at the University of Southern California. She knows oppression when she sees it. And free expression.

She burns her bras, too. Part of her syllabus, I think.

"Art" in The Chronicle
courtesy of Edouard Duval Carrie And here is the latest from The Chronicle. Nekked women everywhere!

Ah, yes, you say, but this is art. My 12 year-old Dreamer could do better. But she's not from the third world.

Anyway, I think the "art" is included to titillate the professors. Like the ones a-seducing Naomi Wolf wanna-bes.

And there's more. Not just the nudie pictures. The academy is misbehaving.

On May 12, 2006, The Chronicle reports in The 7 Deadly Sins of Professors,

Lust: Affairs and adultery happen ...Apparently, there are some professors who pursue students in a sexual way...

And this is bad. Not because it is wrong. Not because women are violated.

Nope. The Chronicle says that Lust is a sin because,

...the hostilities linger longer.

Professors are such a pragmatic bunch.

Ms. Mentor continues, "But who shows academics how to behave properly?"

It sounds like the professors needed parents who would do some paddling.

Or a lawsuit would do. Professor R. Igor Gamow was actually fired by the University of Colorado for "moral turpitude." For raping a Dana Ruehlman. She got a huge cash award.

But the court case is confusing. To normal non-academics, at least. She was raped some 80 times between 1995 and 1998.

Sex 80 times.

Every other week for three years Dana and Igor made whoopi. It was not reported what locations they favored.

Or if Dana may have driven by a police station for a tryst with the monsterous rapist Igor. The horror! The trauma! The academy.

So they had sex 80 times. She gets $285,000. And here we are. The University is merely a pimp supported by taxpayers.

That fired the john.

The Chronicle reports on the convicted rapist that,

Mr. Gamow, whose father, a physicist, helped develop the Big Bang...

I'll say.

Your tuition dollars at work.

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Outside The Beltway was Your Business Blogger's first exposure.

Basil's Blog has a picnic.

Don Suber has Rx: Act Like Ladies.

Mudville Gazette has Open Post.

Basil's Blog has a picnic.

Jo's Cafe has specials.

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I'm not sure if this is safe for work or not. I would think so, if it's art. The Chronicle of Higher Education says it is.

But who knows? If your boss does not permit n*pples in the cubicles do not scroll down. But it's really not that bad. Not that good? The Chronicle's had better pictures. I mean worse.

Your Business Blogger is intrigued by what passes for taste, style and learning in our education elites. The latest issue of The Chronicle comes through again.

Occupying a full quarter page of real estate is a photograph by a self-absorbed photographer. Redundant, I know.

The Chronicle informs us that,

Of all the notable photographers of the 20th century, surely Harry Callahan is the coolest.

I thought Ansel Adams was cool. Perhaps not.

So what makes for cool in academe? The Chronicle enlightens fellow elites,

When he was 34, Callahan wrote what might remain the truest and most naive grant proposals. He was asking for money "to photograph as I felt and desired; to regulate a pleasant form of living; to get up in the morning -- free, to feel the trees, the grass, sky or buildings, the people -- everything that affects us...

Including nekked ladies a-skinny dipping. If it was in color, it would be Playboy porno; black and white makes it art, you see.

But even The Chronicle lurches into the truth, admitting that, "To ask for other people's money in order to improve the quality of one's own life is unusual..."

Which is more insane? Harry asking for free money. The foundation giving it away. Or The Chronicle waxing eloquent on the photographer's authenticity?

So why couldn't Harry just wait on tables to fund his passion for pictures? Like any out of work actor?

But The Chronicle does more that just girls -- I think Eleanor, Chicago is a girl, can't be too sure -- boys are also included in this issue.

Well not the boys. The p*nises.

Well not the p*nises. The foreskins.

Sigmund Freud
Getty ImagesThe Chronicle cuts loose with Academe's Cutting Edge.

Noting that this month marks the 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's birth and circumcision, ...a doctoral candidate... arranged a commemoration. Here's the program:

Which includes: FREUD'S FORESKIN ...the most suggestive circumcision in history.

Don't miss Circumcision in Freud's Context.

And my favorite, Circumcised Supremacy: Freud's Final Cut.

(I'd love to get a job at The Onion. But the problem there is that I'd have to make stuff up... The Chronicle does all the material for me.)

Be sure to check back next week for more in depth analysis of the newspaper of record for the academy. The Chronicle.

A cut above.

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Also see Butts in the Chronicle. Search The Chronicle on this site for past titillating issues.

Mudville Gazette has Open Post.

Jo's Cafe has Tuesday's Specials.

Outside the Beltway has a traffic jam.

Outside the Beltway also has the real thing(s) from a real life female academic women's studies professor. Visit OTB, safe, but the links are not safe for work. " ...udders in public [are...is] a public utterance..."

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Pin-up Grrrs
Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture The Grey Lady of the Academy isn't gray but does have ladies.

Or at least girls. I mean, grrrls. New, creative writing. So hip! So groovey! Valley Girl spelling for the dirty old male professors. Tired of Playboy and Hustler. Moving up to cultural raunch.

But there is more to the pictures than mere prurient interest. There's a book. By an academic. A Bitch, Ph.D. wannabe, Maria Elena Buszek. Her scholarly book has 464 pages. (Whatever.) And 103 photographs. (Now you're talking.) Including 9 pictures, NINE! IN COLOR!! (Hot D*M!)

The book is described as a,

brilliantly vibrant debut book, [where] Maria Elena Buszek gives a lucid, rich, and thorough account of ... history in which women employ the power of erotic imagery to celebrate themselves.

So. Patriots celebrate the 4th of July. Catholics celebrate Mass. Feminists celebrate... themselves.

Truth from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Your tuition dollars at work.

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More on Bitch, PhD.

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Everybody's Toy, Nobody's Fool

The text and photographs by Jackie Brenner, a photographer, are from the book Friday Night Grind: Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Distributed by the University of New Mexico Press for Fresco Fine Arts Publications and Shine Media Group.

The market segment for the average reader of The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Voted for John Kerry
Doesn't go to church
Loves Darwinism; hates Intelligent Design
Hates George Bush
Hates business/commerce/filthy lucre
Loves pictures of Nekked Women...

...I made up the last point.

However, this is what the professors in the academy are reading. Are you sure you want your daughters near these guys?

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Other favorite pictures articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education include

Painted Ladies, and

Butt of Jokes.

This week's pictures are from the April 21, 2006 edition, page B3.

Whenever Your Business Blogger thinks of Bill Clinton, I think of Crooked Timber.

Mudville Gazette has Open Post.

Gapingvoid has a better depiction of the Str*ppers' audience.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education arrived in my mail box. In plastic wrap. But it should be covered in brown paper. Remember, Your Business Blogger subscribes for the articles. But I can always count on The Chronicle to titillate.

Here's this edition's nudie pics.

The liberals in academe cannot understand why us parental prudes might not want their daughters dancing naked on campus and posing in paint for publication.

This is bad for the education business. Looks bad on a resume.

But I could be wrong.

Rachel E. Beaulieu (above in tiger stripes), a senior...is treasurer of the Liquid Latex Club,...wanted to improve [her] outlook on the way [she] looked...

[and]

...the nudity may attract first-time audience members...

[but]

...Ms. Beaulieu says it is not what the show is about...

And boys read Playboy for the articles.

The co-ed concludes, "It's a very unique experience...the liquid latex allows you to do things you could never do," with conventional cloth and clothes and virtue.

This is a subtle hint to human resource managers: The more a girl has appeared nude in print, the greater the possibility that men would have seen her. And perhaps have stared. Some will oogle.

This is a longitudinal sexual harassment case study in the making.

Ms. Beaulieu, please let us know how the job search progresses.

We'll be watching.

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From The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006. At least the picture was buried on A6.

Full Disclosure: The wife of Your Business Blogger has been published in The Chronicle. In conventional fashion.

Mudville Gazette has Open Post.

Basil's Blog has a Picnic.

Michelle Malkin has more on education.

Outside the Beltway has Traffic Jam.

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A few years ago, Your Business Blogger was researching the on-line bio's of university professors.

They were mostly Crooked Timber commies. But what surprised me was that they were not, well, circumspect.

One tenured professor even had the image of Karl Marx in the place for his picture. His hero. I guess.

So what's a Red State kind of parent to do?

The Young America's Foundation has some options.

The YAF published its annual list of the top ten conservative colleges. They are, in no order: Christendom College, College of the Ozarks, Franciscan University of Stubenville, Grove City College, Harding University, Hillsdale College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Liberty University, Patrick Henry College, and Thomas Aquinas College.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that parents want their children to:

avoid going to a school that's going to tell them Che Guevara is a human-rights icon.

The YAF also advises to avoid these courses and campuses where:

Amherst College in Massachusetts offers the class Taking Marx Seriously: "Should Marx be given another chance?"

Students in this course are asked to question if Marxism still has any "credibility" remaining, while also inquiring if societies can gain new insights by "returning to [Marx's] texts." Coming to Marx's rescue, this course also states that Lenin, Stalin, and Pol Pot misapplied the concepts of Marxism.

And:

Harvard University's Marxist Concepts of Racism examines "the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality" (emphasis added).

Although Karl Marx didn't say much on race, leftist professors in this course extrapolate information on "racial oppression" and "racial antagonism."

And for those businessmen reading this (who didn't inherit their money):

Duke University's American Dreams/American Realities course supposedly unearths "such myths as 'rags to riches,' 'beacon to the world,' and the 'frontier,' in defining the American character" (emphasis added).

The wealth creation of American business is "myth" to most in the academy. Let us be very careful where we send our kids.

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Hat Tip to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Where the articles are as good as the pictures.

Pictured in
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Pictured in
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To follow up yesterday's post, I was researching "Butt of Jokes" and got distracted. Alert readers will notice that this is not the post I promised.

Tomorrow, I will publish how to get off the laugh track when you become the butt of jokes, the challenge Harriet Miers now faces.

But for now let me observe that it is never good to have your name come up in a Google search that includes ladies with dollar bills lovingly inserted into a g-string. Go ahead: Look up 'Harriet Miers' and 'butt of jokes.' I'll take the hit(s).

Anyway, the pictures above and below are from a story in the newspaper of record for the Academy, the Chronicle of Higher Education.

From a sociologist. His academic research. I didn't read the article. I go to Playboy for the articles.

Better writing.

And today we learn that Daniel Drezner has been denied tenure by the University of Chicago. ProbablyMaybe because of his blog. He should have been doing work that Institutions of Higher Learning would appreciate. Advising students. Writing books. And advancing scholarship. . .

Like taking pictures of girls' derrieres.

Tomorrow I shall return to the serious business of advising on public relations disasters.

After I finish this stack of Chronicles.

The End

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Full Disclosure: My wife has been quoted in The Chronicle, but never photographed.

[And she insists that I add this disclaimer: the Playboy line is a joke.]

Mudville Gazette with Open Post.

Brad DeLong has a Free Country.

Wizbang has Miers SlumLord report.

Point of Law has Miers and judicial activism.

Washington Post has Miers and abortion reporting.

Volokh has Drezner and tenure.

Disembedded has academic facade.

Capt Ed has Miers 2.0.

Patterico has predictions.

Brian's Study Breaks defends tenure.

A Typical Joe says it's not the Blog.

Cao's Blog has open trackbacks.

Mark My Words has an interesting poll.

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