Wednesday, December 26, 2001
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Colorado Commission on Higher Education (diversity story)
Denver Post story:
A controversial University of Colorado-Boulder diversity plan was adopted by the governing board of regents Thursday despite the protests of a handful of students, including one who was escorted out of the meeting by security when he tried to address the board.
A diversity plan for all public colleges and universities is required by next month by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The CU plan doesn't set numerical goals for
graduating minority students for fear it could be construed as quotas and subject to reverse discrimination lawsuits.
TX_TX It also refrains from listing specific classes of people for protections based on criteria such as sexual orientation, religion or race - an 11th-hour deletion that angered students who said they were blind-sided by the move. Instead the plan ensures protection for "all people."
"This isn't a campus plan. It's a regents plan," said Tara Friedman, a CU-Boulder student body president. "It shows disrespect to groups facing institutional barriers. It doesn't address homophobia and racism. I don't know why they bother to have a diversity plan. I don't know how they can ask us to buy into this when they ripped all of our suggestions out of it." Students served on committees developing the plan wrote their own plan and picketed at regents' meetings over the past several months.
"I will support this with the understanding that "all people' means "all people,' including people of a sexual orientation other than our own," Regent Bob Sievers said. CU-Boulder students had long decried a plan without
numerical minority graduation goals as toothless. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to overturn a ruling that allows numerical goals in diversity plans. "They (the regents) are making public policy based on a yet-to-be-determined court decision," Friedman said. "That's weak, and it's not
leadership." The CCHE last year ditched its minority graduation
requirements (in most cases 18.6 percent by 2000 to reflect regional high-school graduation rates) in favor of a policy requiring schools to come up with their own plan.
Denver Post story:
A controversial University of Colorado-Boulder diversity plan was adopted by the governing board of regents Thursday despite the protests of a handful of students, including one who was escorted out of the meeting by security when he tried to address the board.
A diversity plan for all public colleges and universities is required by next month by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The CU plan doesn't set numerical goals for
graduating minority students for fear it could be construed as quotas and subject to reverse discrimination lawsuits.
TX_TX It also refrains from listing specific classes of people for protections based on criteria such as sexual orientation, religion or race - an 11th-hour deletion that angered students who said they were blind-sided by the move. Instead the plan ensures protection for "all people."
"This isn't a campus plan. It's a regents plan," said Tara Friedman, a CU-Boulder student body president. "It shows disrespect to groups facing institutional barriers. It doesn't address homophobia and racism. I don't know why they bother to have a diversity plan. I don't know how they can ask us to buy into this when they ripped all of our suggestions out of it." Students served on committees developing the plan wrote their own plan and picketed at regents' meetings over the past several months.
"I will support this with the understanding that "all people' means "all people,' including people of a sexual orientation other than our own," Regent Bob Sievers said. CU-Boulder students had long decried a plan without
numerical minority graduation goals as toothless. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to overturn a ruling that allows numerical goals in diversity plans. "They (the regents) are making public policy based on a yet-to-be-determined court decision," Friedman said. "That's weak, and it's not
leadership." The CCHE last year ditched its minority graduation
requirements (in most cases 18.6 percent by 2000 to reflect regional high-school graduation rates) in favor of a policy requiring schools to come up with their own plan.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Wednesday, September 05, 2001
Monday, August 20, 2001
Saturday, August 18, 2001
Employee logic.
The logic that employees use to defend their managers' decisions when they don't have all the knowledge to do so.
"Sir, I can't serve you in the drive thru unless you're in a car."
"Why not?"
"Because it's a DRIVE thru."
"So what?"
"It's just not safe, sir."
"Cars don't go through drive thrus at fifty miles per hour, dude. What's so dangerous about it?"
"It's just not safe."
"How do you sweep up all this trash out here? Do you have a machine that does it?"
"Sir, please."
"Or is it that Taco Bell employees are highly trained at dodging slow-moving cars?"
"Sir, I'll have to ask you to order inside."
"But the dining room is closed"
"Well, you'll have to come back when it's open."
???
Police use the same logic to enforce laws they don't understand. You can't blame them because most cops just aren't smart enough to be lawyers.
The logic that employees use to defend their managers' decisions when they don't have all the knowledge to do so.
"Sir, I can't serve you in the drive thru unless you're in a car."
"Why not?"
"Because it's a DRIVE thru."
"So what?"
"It's just not safe, sir."
"Cars don't go through drive thrus at fifty miles per hour, dude. What's so dangerous about it?"
"It's just not safe."
"How do you sweep up all this trash out here? Do you have a machine that does it?"
"Sir, please."
"Or is it that Taco Bell employees are highly trained at dodging slow-moving cars?"
"Sir, I'll have to ask you to order inside."
"But the dining room is closed"
"Well, you'll have to come back when it's open."
???
Police use the same logic to enforce laws they don't understand. You can't blame them because most cops just aren't smart enough to be lawyers.
Sprained my ankle in a major way yesterday. Fell five feet into a window well while handing a big piece of plywood to a guy on a ladder. The funny thing--well, it's not funny yet, but it will be someday--is that for the past three weeks I've been building walls and roofs and have regularly performed such stupid acts as walking across unstable 15-foot-high exterior walls, or hanging from roof trusses by a knee to nail a two-by-four to something.
I sprain my ankle by falling from the ground to somewhere below it.
But hey, I'm not all that down on it. It's a cool story to tell when I see someone else with a sprained ankle. Everyone loves those stories.
I sprain my ankle by falling from the ground to somewhere below it.
But hey, I'm not all that down on it. It's a cool story to tell when I see someone else with a sprained ankle. Everyone loves those stories.
Saturday, August 11, 2001
I'm two gas tanks into my return from Central America. Though the livin' is easy here, I still don't feel much at home. I worry that, as the days roll by, I might forget my vision and sink back into the grind. I constantly have to remind myself that "There's a whole world out there," and that it beckons me to return to it...It's hard to fight the numbness, however.
Mountain bikes, SUVs and restaurants with comfortable atmospheres. They just put me to sleep. Only the thought of injuring myself in some grand fall keeps my heart going around here.
Mountain bikes, SUVs and restaurants with comfortable atmospheres. They just put me to sleep. Only the thought of injuring myself in some grand fall keeps my heart going around here.
Built a roof on a house last week. It involved a lot of lifting, climbing, and standing on very high and precarious structures. My hands are sore from constant mis-hammerings and heavy-object-droppings. My muscles are sore as well. So far, I haven't injured any of my bones or organs, but that doesn't mean it won't ever happen. It's the holding heavy objects still while standing twelve feet off the ground that sometimes creeps me out. That seems to be when I'm at the most risk of impaling myself on an upright two-by-four.
Monday, August 06, 2001
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