Faculty Lounge Are Anti-Campus Carry Activists Upset About Nothing? Spencer Irvine April 16, 2016 Good take from our friends over at the John William Pope Center: Eight states currently allow concealed carry permit holders…
Faculty Lounge Texas University Cancels ‘The Vagina Monologues’ since the Writer is a White Woman Spencer Irvine April 2, 2016 This is… just getting out of hand, isn’t it?! Photo by paraplegicpanda Photo by paraplegicpanda
Faculty Lounge President of University of Texas Still Upset over Open Carry Law Spencer Irvine February 24, 2016 The open carry law, which went into effect this year, also allows campus carry on all public universities. The University…
Faculty Lounge Probably Illegal? University of Texas President Wants Ban on Guns in Dorm Halls Spencer Irvine February 18, 2016 That sounds like it does violate the open carry law of the state of Texas. Photo by ctj71081
Faculty Lounge Campus Police at Texas Scraps Citation for Preacher who Offended Students Spencer Irvine February 16, 2016 It is a country of free speech, anyways. Their excuse? The officer who wrote the citation was being trained, so…
MLA, Perspectives Getting to Know Goethe Malcolm A. Kline February 4, 2016 Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors…
MLA, Perspectives Aging at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline February 3, 2016 One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is…
MLA, Perspectives From Stalinist Russia, With Love Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2016 In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched…
Faculty Lounge Texas Chancellor Warns Faculty of Violating Campus Carry Law Spencer Irvine January 28, 2016 Left-wing faculty members are pushing to ban guns in their classrooms, although Texas law is that guns can be carried…
MLA, Perspectives MLA Deconstructs Middle East Malcolm A. Kline When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences…
MLA, Perspectives Patchwork Girl @ the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 27, 2016 Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss…
MLA, Perspectives Good News for English Majors, Sort Of Malcolm A. Kline January 26, 2016 When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention,…
