February 2012
23 posts
Retro Muse Coffee House @ 12:30!
Please join us today in the LC Courtyard from 12:30-1:30 for pizza, poetry, music, and whatever turns up at the mic! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! STONE CITY by J.P. Dancing Bear -for Butch Berry You can hear the city open its primal heart tonight- the sound of roiling blue, orange shadowing tan. The deep veins of granite running like a river through. Quarried out of another world and...
Congratulations to SCC student Stephen Crowley!
Crowley’s ”A Marble in the Sand” has earned third place in the “Essay” category of the 2011-2012 Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition. Along with this recognition, Crowley has also won a cash prize and a chance to celebrate with other participants at the Creative Writing Awards Reception on Thursday, May 3rd at 6:00 pm at Scottsdale...
Glasper Opposes Guns on Campus Bill
January 31, 2012
TEMPE, AZ – Rufus Glasper, Chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges, today stated his opposition to SB 1474, which would allow guns to be carried on college campuses by persons other than law enforcement personnel.
“The Maricopa Community Colleges believe that SB1474 starts from a false premise — that campuses would be safer if students were allowed to carry guns,” Dr....
“As people increasingly share stories, videos, and tips through their networks,...”
– Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Dyed Siberian Horse” (And...
More from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magical Notebooks–
143 Days of this February were white and magical, the nights were starry and crystalline. The town lay under a cold glory.
144 Dyed Siberian horse.
145 As thin as a repeated dream.
146 The sea was coming up in little intimidating rushes.
147 The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible curve of the world.
148 Lost in the...
“In Arizona, approximately 24 of every 100 high school students drop out before...”
– Doyle W. Burke, Governing Board President, Maricopa County Community College District :: Message from the President : Governing Board | Maricopa Community Colleges
“The nie nie zu (the “crush-crush tribe”) are so named because they go into...”
– Who knew China was tribal? The diversification of Chinese society has seen a flowering of a new vocabulary. Perhaps most fascinating has been the division of people into tribes (zu in Mandarin). (via theeconomist)
ESL Conversation and Group Activities at the SCC...
SCC students:
Are you interested in meeting Fellow ESL students and chatting?
Do you have questions about English, the United States or its culture?
The Writing Center’s ESL Conversation and Group Activities are what you need!
ESL Conversation every Monday 12:00-1:00pm
Group Activities every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm
We’ll chat about interesting topics, practice English idioms,...
January 2012
41 posts
everything in the sky: I have to complete an... →
everythinginthesky:
I have to complete an English exam this weekend as part of an application for permanent residency in Canada. It’s a serious exam that can take up to 4 hours. I have no doubt that among the other people taking it will be non-native speakers struggling with the vagaries and contradictions of the…
checkmyshoe123:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads “Ode...
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Texas Educators Encourage More Two-Year College... →
infoneer-pulse:
Assaying the output of higher education in Texas, Michael Bettersworth evoked the image of a crippled Apollo 13 craft hurtling into space, its future uncertain.
“Houston, we have a problem, and it’s not that too few people are going to college,” said Mr. Bettersworth, an associate vice chancellor at the Texas State Technical College System. “It’s that too many people are getting...
“Real wit is shown in language. We need language.”
– Maya Angelou (via theparisreview)
Yelping with Cormac: Design Within Reach →
yelpingwithcormac:
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
They emerged from the crucible of adolescence rosyfaced and long of bone, inheritors of the hurtling world of their progenitors. Cocksure but for the onerous legacy of war and rapacious greed and…
“What if a computer could accurately grade student essays? It could change the...”
– The End Of Multiple Choice? The Quest To Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders (via fastcompany)
Wikipedia Blackout - Where's Wikipedia? - Guides... →
From the Texas A&M Research Libraries, a guide to SOPA/PIPA:
“This guide will help you find alternate resources so you don’t go through search withdrawal, understand the major issues surrounding SOPA and PIPA, and learn about supporters and opponents of the legislation.”
SCC students can access alternate resources through the SCC...
Learn to code | Codecademy →
Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
“It took a few centuries after the invention of text for regular people to learn...”
– Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too
“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer defends the long sentence in today’s LA Times. (via millionsmillions)
“If you find yourself reading Chaucer for more than four hours seek immediate...”
– Legal disclaimer to a hypothetical Super Bowl ad for the Norton Anthologies (via wwnorton)