Patrick Havens on April 25th, 2008

They’d either go bankrupt or like this video mentioned, they’d never bother advertising.
And forgive me to embedding a college humor video. They tend to put too many Ads in, but this was humorous.

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Patrick Havens on March 2nd, 2007

The idea for the 2007 University of Illinois Girls of Engineering calendar was originally conceived by four students last year. The idea was to raise some money for charity, and to refute a stereotype that female engineering students aren’t beautiful.
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Some people at U of I took offense to the calendar, saying it was demeaning [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 11th, 2006

A well written post by Gerald Bracey on the Huffington Post Blog comments about how the “No Child Left Behind” is imploding:
NCLB would funnel large sums of public funds into the private sector through vouchers, transfer much control of public education to private companies, and to reduce or destroy the influence of two Democratic power [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 31st, 2006

You know… when I was in High School I used to hear stories from my brothers about the strange classes that had been taught at Vintage high when it first opened.  Like Witchcraft and basket weaving (not underwater).  But this report really makes me wonder what they are thinking when they come up with class [...]

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