<p>How about trolling for minor league basball players?</p>
<p>"The rapidly improving Venable, chosen by the Padres in the seventh round of the 2005 draft...." blahblahblah</p>
<p>Sounds like the YALIE TROLL regaling us about all the upscale martini bars in rapidly-gentrifying New Haven!</p>
<p>sorry, you said "tollling" for actresses and women's soccer, not "basball."</p>
<p>As self-appointed Princeton Troll there is no limit to your gushing about minor achievements by Tigers, ex-Tigers or would-be Tigers - or even, in the case of Brother West, immigrant Tigers.</p>
<p>pwn3d, on your own thread, on your own board.</p>
<p>one of the funnier threads I've read, great example of self-pwnage</p>
<p>Using "kid speak" now, are we?</p>
<p>Go back to your lair or I'll tell JEM you are off-topic!!!</p>
<p>Waaaah, waaaah! JEM.. scottie is being a BAD BOY and using kid speak he learned at the "other place"!</p>
<p>"Waaaah, waaaah! JEM.. scottie is being a BAD BOY and using kid speak he learned at the "other place"!"</p>
<p>lol, I think elvis has left the building</p>
<p>Let's be sure to hear about all the desirable features of other schools where that news is on-topic: in the school-specific forums for each school. I notice (and appreciate) that Byerly's example of posting newspaper links about new admittees and about faculty accomplishments is now followed in those forums, which is helpful to me, a person who has no particular reason to be partisan about any of the schools discussed here.</p>
<p>The original link was reportage covering The Star-ACMS conference on Globalising Higher Education in Malaysia? </p>
<p>Well, my goodness.</p>
<p>Ah! All the ants scuttling in the door ... drawn to the honey, no doubt! Are things slow over in Tigertown today?</p>
<p>I am an American who has lived overseas, and I think it is a very important issue what reputation an undergraduate college has around the world.</p>
<p>I have a question</p>
<p>I here so much about Dr. Cornell West who must be either a brilliant teacher or a real mover. As I know very little about this genius as why is he so famous? Did he use his academic brilliance to work with inner city youths and motivate them to get out of poverty? Or he is just an entertainer who made his money and give kids higher grade. What were his biggest achievements towards uplifting Afro American community? Or he is just using himself to feel god mentality? Did he make a similar drive in uplifting and making in a difference in people’s live like Rev Martin Luther King who really made a difference among people of all color? I must say I admire Dr. King and so many people who fought for right causes. Is Dr. West a person who has made a tremendous difference in any way in people live? Could anyone educate me? Thanks</p>
<p>Good question.</p>
<p>I think most people who take African American Studies seriously think highly of West. Heres some information from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West:%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West:</a></p>
<p>After graduating from John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, California, he enrolled at Harvard University at age 17 and graduated in three years, magna cum laude in Near Eastern languages and literature. He went on to Princeton to complete his graduate education, where he was influenced by professor Richard Rorty, specifically his dedication to the pragmatist school of philosophy. His dissertation, completed in 1980, was later revised and published as The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. In his mid-twenties, he returned to Harvard as a Du Bois fellow before becoming an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.</p>
<p>In 1985, he went to Yale Divinity School in what eventually became a joint appointment in American studies. While at Yale, he participated in campus protests for a clerical union and divestment from apartheid South Africa, one of which resulted in his being arrested and jailed. As punishment, the university administration cancelled his leave for Spring 1987, leading him to commute between Yale (where he was teaching two classes) and the University of Paris (where he was teaching three).</p>
<p>He then returned to Union for a year before going to Princeton to become a professor of religion and director of the Program in African American Studies, which he revitalized in cooperation with such scholars as novelist Toni Morrison. He served as director of the program from 1988 to 1994.
1993 saw the publication of Race Matters, a bestselling collection of essays, as well as his departure from Princeton to join the Afro-American studies program at Harvard, chaired by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (who called West "the preeminent African-American intellectual of our generation"). In 1998, Harvard appointed him the first Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor.</p>
<p>West's popularity was not, however, universal. Critics, most notably The New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier, charged him with opportunism, crass showmanship and lack of scholarly seriousness. West remains a widely cited scholar in the popular press, in African-American studies and in studies of black theology, although his work as an academic philosopher has been almost completely ignored (with the exception of his early history of American pragmatism, The American Evasion of Philosophy).</p>
<p>So have any of the experts commenting here about West ever bothered to read his work? Any of you tenured faculty in African American studies, or related fields (and thus qualified to sit on a tenure committee)?</p>
<p>i've read "race matters." oh, and seen the matrix sequels.</p>
<p>He's in those?</p>
<p>Yeah, Councillor</a> West = Dr</a>. West.</p>
<p>Oh man. </p>
<p>He was in two atrocious movies.</p>