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"Attorney at Large" goes bananas this week

The Banana: More American Than Apple Piewww.lulu.com
By James Castagnera
A bunch of them sits on our kitchen counter top right now. At the moment, the bunch is yellow with some green streaks. I like them that way. A soft banana from inside a brown-dappled skin makes me queasy. Memories of a friend’s toddler squishing an over-ripe banana and stuffing it into his nostrils and ears are indelibly etched inside my brain.
Americans on average eat about 25 pounds of bananas per year. How anybody knows this is a mystery to me. However, the data point is believable. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that every American eats the same species of banana. So do Asians and Europeans. The Cavendish banana is the sole species sold worldwide. For growers, that’s not only weird; it’s worrisome.
The Cavendish’s predecessor was the Gros Michel (Big Mike). Until the 1920s Big Mike ruled the produce shelves. Then a fungus called Panama disease obliterated Big Mike. The Cavendish up until then had been “dissed” as less savory and harder to ship without bruising. When Mike went down, Cavendish climbed to the top of the heap. United Fruit and Standard Fruit figured out how to crate and ship the Cavendish, so that it ripened just in time to arrive on America’s grocery shelves.
I know all this thanks to a new book called “Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World” by a travel/adventure writer named Dan Koeppel, that was published in January. Koeppel chronicles not only the biology, but also the politics, of the banana. Brilliant marketing by American entrepreneurs made the curvaceous yellow fruit, Chiquita if you like, a formidable rival to the good old American apple. To price their product competitively, after shipping it thousands of miles, these Yankees required Central American labor in plentiful supply at slave wages. No wonder, then, that “Yanqui, go home!” remains the motto of so many Latin Americans. United Fruit in the 1950s collaborated with the CIA in toppling unfriendly (read “reformist”) governments in the aptly named Banana Republics.
These Cold War-era shenanigans were lampooned brilliantly in Woody Allen’s 1971 film (what else would it be called?) “Bananas.” Allen’s Fielding Mellish blunders his way into a rebel camp in hot pursuit of Nancy (Louise Lasser), a lefty lassie for whom he has the hots. A curious triviality of “Bananas” is that throughout the entire film you never see one. Never you mind. The fruit, as much or more than America’s fear of Communism, was the back-story behind the conflicts that wracked Central America throughout the second half of the 20th century.
Despite its political prowess and monopoly status on the world’s produce shelves, the Cavendish may go the way of its predecessor. A prime example of bio-non-diversity, the best friend of our breakfast cereal is being attacked by the same incurable fungus that brought down Big Mike. Most experts believe it’s not if but when the Cavendish will succumb. Meanwhile scientists are seeking a resistant hybrid that will one day fill the impending gastronomic gap.
Following heartbreak, assassination, revolution, and a criminal trial, Fielding Mellish’s Odyssey ends in a honeymoon bed with Nancy (the marriage’s consummation delicately reported by Howard Cosell for “Wide World of Sports”). Whether either the Cavendish banana or the still-impoverished republics where it’s grown have happy days ahead remains to be seen.
As Castro ends his 50-year reign, releasing power to brother Raul, Cuba poses a threat to no one anymore. Venezuela’s eccentric Preside Hugo Chavez pesters Uncle Sam with a more worrisome threat of withholding petroleum, but his efforts at exporting revolution so far have gone nowhere. And I can eat berries on my granola, if needs be.
So, if the Cavendish goes the way of the Gros Michel, I’ll enjoy my cereal with blueberries or raisins, unperturbed by Central America’s fate. I’ll still munch my Cap’n Crunch while recalling with a smile my favorite Lou Costello shtick:
Costello: How much are those bananas?
Botchagaloop: Nickle apiece, three for a quarter.
Costello: I’ll take three.
Botchagaloop takes Lou’s quarter and hands over two bananas.
Costello: Hey, that’s only two.
Botchagaloop (counting): One-a banana, two-a banana, that makes three-a banana.
Lou takes his two bananas and walks off, as Botchagaloop pockets the two bits.
How do you like them apples, folks?
[Jim Castagnera is the Associate Provost/Associate Counsel at Rider University. A collection of his “Attorney at Large” columns is available at www.lulu.com.]

And he ain't even an official saint anymore!

Schools struggle to tone down St. Pat's Day revelries.From Inside Higher Education

Are animal-rights advocates misguided?

Of Cats and Kidneys
By
Jim Castagnera
Attorney at Large
A news photo caught my eye last week. Four Pakistani men are holding up their shirts, displaying long surgical scars. The caption explained they had each sold a kidney to a “transplant tourist.” Transplant tourists are patients who journey abroad in search of affordable bodily organs. Kidneys are among the most popular human commodities. Payments to impoverished donors reportedly range from a high of around $10,000 in Brazil to a low of $1300 paid by the Iranian government.
While the wretched of the earth are submitting themselves to major surgery, the cats of America are enjoying health care benefits most of our planet’s six billion-plus people can only dream of.
If you doubt me, check out “VeterinaryPartner.Com,” where we are told, “Kidney transplantation is something everyone has heard of for human patients but hasn’t really thought about for pets. It turns out that organ transplants are not very available for our pets; however, there is a notable exception and that is in kidney transplantation for cats.”
www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=1349&S=2&SourceID=42
This article goes on to list the screening required to determine if your kitty is a good candidate for a kidney transplant: blood tests; urinalysis; urine culture; feline leukemia virus screen; ultrasound examination of the heart; screening for taxoplasmosis; blood typing, and (no kidding) teeth cleaning.
These people seem to be serious. No wonder… we Americans, while tolerating lack of health insurance for about 15% of our human population, spend billions caring for our pets. I even found a support site for cat owners facing the trauma of kitty’s kidney transplant. “The shock of the initial diagnosis is where the emotional roller coaster ride begins. The first priority must be to overcome feelings of hopelessness, anger, sadness, helplessness and fear so that you can assist your cat.” www.felinecrf.com/transf.htm
Listen here. I like our dog. Just the same --- and please don’t tell him this (he can’t read) --- if his kidneys kick, he’s not going on any transplant list. If that seems hard-hearted to you, let me provide a bit of perspective.
When I was a boy, growing up in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal country, people mostly were fairly poor. Lower-middle class and blue-collar are the class labels that come to mind. Many supplemented their larders with wild game. Beagles and hounds were the canines of choice. Cats were kept around to kill mice. When these “pets” could no longer do their jobs, they were put down. They were expected to earn their keep.
Middle class affluence has bred a batch of disproportionate behaviors. The Hummer is one… great for patrolling Baghdad, but a hazard on an interstate highway. Fast food is another… super-size me, baby!
Our weird passion for our pets is yet another. Kidney transplants for felines is only the most outrageous example of the practice of veterinary medicine in America today.
Someday, however, animals may repay us for our extravagant generosity to them. According to Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, “the recent development of genetically modified pigs that are more compatible with humans, has reinstated hope for the success of xenotransplantation,” i.e., transplanting from one species to another.
A great idea, given that “transplant tourists” are mostly folks who are likely to die before their names come to the top of waiting lists in their home countries. They’re not out to exploit impoverished donors. They’re just trying to stay alive.
I only hope the trend never runs the other way. Given how goofy we’ve become about our pets, will the next news be that somebody’s pit bull just received a human organ?


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Those pesky animal-rights activists are at it again

From the Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel

A call for reform of British higher ed

Visit the government web site here.

Shades of Ward Churchill?

Protests heat up at U. Michigan over denial of tenure for teacher of Native American Studies.From the Chronicle of Higher Education

Scientists track endangered whales

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

EU condemns Japanese whaling

The European Commission this month reiterated its concern over continued Japanese whaling and called on EU Member States to agree on a common position on the protection of whales before the next meeting of the International Whaling Commission in June.

"The graphic images on our television screens bring home the reality of whale hunting," said EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. "This shows that more than ever the EU needs to be united in opposing whaling. I call on Member States to reach a common position to reinforce the efforts to protect whales."

"Identity Theft" Program at Rider University

Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Rider University’s Center for Business Forensics is hosting a free seminar on Identity Theft focusing on the major issues surrounding identity theft and fraud, and offering to the public
insight into the widespread, varying and serious nature of identity theft. Topics include:

What is identity theft, and what forms does it take?
Who is at risk?
How can you protect yourself from it?
What steps should you take if you are a victim of identity theft?
An expert panel of presenters will include:

1. Michelle Russell, Detective, Economic Crime Unit, Mercer Co. Prosecutor’s Office

2. Kevin D. Hill, Vice President/Banking Center Manager II of Bank of America

3. Laurinda B. Harman, Ph.D., RHIA, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Health Information Management, Temple University

4. Bethany Schussler, Investigator for the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, State of New Jersey

5. John LeMasney, Manager of Instructional Technology at Rider University

This public event will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater on Rider University’s campus, 2083 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville. Please bring your questions. An informative handout will be available. RSVP by emailing sgordon@rider.edu Friday, March 28, 2008.

"Identity Theft" Program at Rider University

Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Rider University’s Center for Business Forensics is hosting a free seminar on Identity Theft focusing on the major issues surrounding identity theft and fraud, and offering to the public
insight into the widespread, varying and serious nature of identity theft. Topics include:

What is identity theft, and what forms does it take?
Who is at risk?
How can you protect yourself from it?
What steps should you take if you are a victim of identity theft?
An expert panel of presenters will include:

1. Michelle Russell, Detective, Economic Crime Unit, Mercer Co. Prosecutor’s Office

2. Kevin D. Hill, Vice President/Banking Center Manager II of Bank of America

3. Laurinda B. Harman, Ph.D., RHIA, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Health Information Management, Temple University

4. Bethany Schussler, Investigator for the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, State of New Jersey

5. John LeMasney, Manager of Instructional Technology at Rider University

This public event will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater on Rider University’s campus, 2083 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville. Please bring your questions. An informative handout will be available. RSVP by emailing sgordon@rider.edu Friday, March 28, 2008.

Cal State appeals massive verdict for women's roundball coach

Appeal is going forward despite judge's reduction of jury's award.From the Chronicle of Higher Education

Cuomo and company declare open season on higher education

Download 0707_Castagnera.pdf From the Greentree Gazette

Here he comes again!

Cuomo takes aim at college-branded credit cards.From the Chronicle of Higher Education

New Issue: AAC&U's "On Campus with Women"

Education                   This                   issue of On Campus with Women considers the many ways that women in higher education are forming alliances with their global peers to improve educational opportunities for their students and for girls and women across nations. READ MORE  FEATURES:                                       Susan E. Lennon, executive director of the Women's                     College Coalition, discusses the need to educate women in                     the areas of leadership and advocacy as the world becomes                     increasingly complex.                    Nina Rabin, director of border research, Southwest Institute                     for Research on Women, writes on her work utilizing the research                     and education capabilities at the University of Arizona to improve conditions for immigrant                     women while also providing students with a unique education                     in globalization.                                   ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:         The                 Director's Outlook by Caryn McTighe Musil links today's global educational initiatives with earlier forms of women's activism.                   Gladys Brown asks three colleagues about the kind of information necessary to build successful multicultural alliances with women.                                      Aisha Bilkhair traces the history of women's education in the United Arab Emirates.                                      For                   Your Bookshelf features six                   new books, including Women's Labor in the Global Economy:                   Speaking in Multiple Voices and The Making of Our Bodies,                   Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders                                       If you have  difficulty viewing this e-mail, please paste www.aacu.org/ocww into your Web browser to view the entire publication. To unsubscribe, click here.                 AAC&U | 1818 R Street NW | Washington, DC 20009 | 202-387-3760 | www.aacu.org | news@aacu.org

NACUA One-Day CLE on Overseas Business

April One-Day CLE Workshop

Legal Issues in Organizing & Operating Overseas Programs

Friday, April 11, 2008

The Peabody Memphis Hotel

Memphis, TN

 

Special Rate for Multiple Attendees

NACUA is pleased to offer a special rate for multiple attendees from the same member institution.  Once a member attorney has registered, additional attorneys and administrators from the same institution may register at a special, reduced registration rate of $199.  Click here to register!  Feel free to invite your Director of International Education or other administrators involved in your overseas programming to this specialized workshop.

 

About the Program
This one-day program will review the key issues in establishing and operating college and university international programs, including:

• Getting Started: An Overview of Issues to Consider When Planning Overseas Programs

• Student Safety, Security, Health and Medical Issues

• Employment Issues in Overseas Programs

• Immigration, Compensation and Contract Issues

• Risk Management Issues
• Conducting Research and Sponsored Programs Overseas

• Student Affairs Issues in Overseas Programs

• Operating Programs in China: Opportunities and Challenges

• Legal Ethics Issues and Potential Conflicts for Counsel

Click here to view a detailed program schedule. Please join your NACUA colleagues and an experienced group of NACUA panelists for this in-depth look at the key legal, risk management and compliance issues in college and university overseas programs.

 

Who Should Attend?

This program will be of interest to college and university counsel responsible for legal issues related study abroad and other overseas programs. The Campus administrators who may benefit from the program include study abroad coordinators, senior administrators with line responsibility for international programs, managers of international and study abroad programs, campus risk managers, human resources administrators, and business affairs managers, and other academic administrators with responsibility for overseas programs. After reviewing the program schedule, members may wish to consider inviting these or other administrators on their campus to join them for the program.

 

Publications

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Do you need the opportunity to develop into a better manager? The Management Development Program will aid in your pursuit of excellence. You will acquire a comprehensive, applied view of management in an international education context. The curriculum employs case studies to introduce directors and new managers to helpful frameworks and models through which their own experiences can be analyzed. The program will focus on how you can adapt your personal management style to the people you supervise and to your institution, build interpersonal and political management skills, handle conflict, help your staff focus on quality, and manage change. Limited to 36 participants in each class (two classes available).These spaces fill quickly, so register now!

 

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Job-posting tips from Inside Higher Ed

These days it's easy to plop the information from your jobs database onto a job board and call it a recruitment ad. But unless your job postings sell your openings to terrific applicants, you're wasting time and money. Are your job postings guilty of one of the three key mistakes that turn off top candidates?

1. Terrible titles. Using the job title from your HR database is certainly easy. But robot titles like "Residential Ser Bus Man/Gen Account" (spotted on a college job page recently) or "FT 12 Mo Faculty - 2020A" (running on Inside Higher Ed today) will not induce a talented human to click on your posting.
2. Boring basics. Lots of ads start with l! ong lists of information useful only to your HR database: job number, classification code, job status...yawn. In an online posting you have two lines to capture someone's imagination so start with the reason great candidates want the job.
3. Rote requirements. Of course you need to communicate the job qualifications and the process for applying - but frame your requirements in candidate-centric terms.  Instead of "duties include..." say "you'll have the opportunity to..." Instead of "Qualifications include..." how about "to succeed in this position you'll need..."  Think of your ad text as a letter to the person you want to hire.

A little creativity will make your job postings more effective at attracting the great candidates you want to hire. Get more tips for writing effective postings.

And here's one more great idea for attracting top candidates: post your jobs with Inside Higher Ed - the free daily news Web site for people who work in higher education. Reach our 400,000+ readers with a 30-day posting for just $150.  Click here to post now.

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DOE announces action plan for higher ed transparency

Higher Education Update

In September 2006, Secretary Spellings announced her action plan to make higher education in the U.S. more accessible, affordable, and accountable.

News, Speeches

• Secretary Spellings delivered the keynote address at the National Legislative Summit of the Association of Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community Colleges in Washington, D.C. (Feb 12, 2008)
• Secretary Spellings discussed her action plan for higher education during her keynote address at the Greater Houston Partnership 2008 State of Education Luncheon. (Feb 8, 2008)
• Secretary Spellings underscored the importance of transparency and accountability in higher education at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. (Dec 18, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced final regulations to increase transparency and protect borrower choice in the federal financial aid program. (Nov 1, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced first year data results for Academic Competitiveness and National SMART Grants. (Oct 26, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings announced an award of $2.45 million to higher education associations to provide reliable and valid measures for assessing postsecondary student learning.  (Sep 28, 2007)
• Secretary Spellings issued a statement on the signing of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. (Sep 27, 2007)
• College Navigator helps you find colleges based on location, programs, tuition, distance learning, evening courses, and more. Save your favorites and compare up to four colleges. (Sep 25, 2007)
• In a letter, Secretary Spellings asked colleges, lenders, and guarantee agencies to "act now to assure students and parents that we have their best interests at heart in providing competitive student loans" (Aug 9, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings spoke at the regional higher education summit in Boston (Jun 14, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings called for a comprehensive higher ed reauthorization law at the first regional summit in Kansas City (Jun 4, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings hosted a summit on higher education and announced a college planning tool (Mar 22-23, 2007).
• Secretary Spellings announced a task force on student loans and issued a statement in response to a congressional hearing on the student loan industry (Apr 24-25, 2007).
• Accreditation Forum (Nov 29, 2006)
• Federal Student Aid Conference (Nov 28, 2006)
• Additional Speeches

Video

• Secretary Spellings discusses the importance of making college affordable for all families (Feb 2007).
• Visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—a model for making college affordable (Mar 2007).

Announcement of Action Plan (Sep 26, 2006)

See the press release, text and webcast of the announcement, photos, President's statement, and audio clips.

Documents

• Action Plan for Higher Education (fact sheet)
• Myth vs. Fact
• Op-Eds

Office of the Under Secretary

The Office of the Under Secretary (OUS) is responsible for helping implement the Secretary's Action Plan for Higher Education.

Commission on the Future of Higher Education

• Final Report — A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of Higher Education (2006)
• Commission Website

Buckley as historian and scholar: a sample

From FOreign Affairs (1980)

Bill Buckley gone

The LA TImes obit

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Student-retention tools on offer

Approaches and Tools to Combat Low Student Retention

Learn About Exciting New Research on Student Retention

The increased focus on learning outcomes is shining a bright light on the mediocre performance of U.S. higher education institutions in the area of student retention and graduation rates: nationwide 45% of the freshmen who entered college last fall will leave the institution at which they just enrolled without earning a degree or certificate, and in 6 years 33% of those freshmen will still have no degree or certificate. This performance not only hurts the competitiveness of the U.S. economy, it hurts the institutions that lose almost half their student body before commencement, and it hurts the students who invest time and money in an effort that has no pay-off.

Jenzabar has partnered with Engaged Minds Inc. to bring you an informative one-hour Webinar on breakthroughs in student retention. It is designed for campus executives looking for ways to bolster student retention and graduation rates.

Join Christoph Knoess, Founder and President of Engaged Minds Inc., at 1:30 p.m. (EST) Thursday, March 6, to discuss the findings of Engaged Minds’ proprietary research on student retention programs. This Webinar will:

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Sounds a bit Medieval: UNI will tear down building where shootings occurred

From the Chronicle of Higher Education

DOL sues college over lapsed pension contributions

Knoxville Sentinel

Assassination Science: the Zapruder FIlm and the JFK Asassination

Sample the book here

See the Zapruder Film here

YouTube

A history of the Zapruder Film

Wikipedia on the Zapruder Film

"Vantage Point" reminiscent of Zapruder Film

From "The History Place"

NACUA's annual conference announced

NACUA Annual Conference

June 22-25, 2008

The Marriott Marquis at Times Square

New   York, NY

 

 

Greetings, NACUA members!  Although registration and hotel accommodations for the 2008 Annual Conference will not open until late March, we are pleased to launch the Annual Conference Website, which will provide you with helpful information about the Conference as you plan to join us in New York in June.   

2008 Annual Conference Website: http://www.nacua.org/meetings/ac2008/home.html

 

The Website will allow you to:

 

• View Conference Registration      Rates  and Hotel      Rates
      
      
• Learn more about the Conference Plenary      Speakers

 

• Preview Conference      Sessions and Networking      Events

 

• Search for Conference Sessions by Topic      and Date      and Time

 

• Learn more about the Workshop      for Lawyers New to Higher Education

 

• Learn more about the Roundtables      for General Counsel

 

• Preview an array of New      York City events and attractions

 

• View a list of current Conference      Sponsors

 

This newly expanded and improved Annual Conference web site provides much more information about the schedule of sessions and events, including the ability to navigate the entire program by date or topic. The web site will continue to be updated during the coming weeks with more detailed information about registration, hotel accommodations, and other activities and events planned for the 2008 Annual Conference in New   York. 

An abbreviated preliminary brochure will be mailed to all members by late March, and will be much more condensed than in prior years, as part of our ongoing efforts to become more eco-friendly.  Note, however, that you will still need to register online through this web site once registration opens in late March.  You may download a paper registration form from the web site if necessary, though we encourage all members to register online, as we are unable to accept credit card payments via paper registration forms.

We hope you will enjoy this new format of providing detailed information about the Annual Conference to you.  Of course, a full detailed final program brochure will be available onsite at the Annual Conference.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

For more information regarding hotel reservations or the NACUA Annual Conference more broadly, please contact

Meredith McMillan

at 202-833-8390 or via email at mmc@nacua.org.

 

 

 

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