Monthly Archives: November 2012

10 Questions You Should Never Ask Your Professor

November 28, 2012 at 10:11 pm

By this point in the semester, I am getting a little loopy. I have too many papers to read, time in running short to cover everything I want to cover in class, and as I drive home in the pitch black darkness (at 4pm) I develop Christmas-light anxiety. As in, why does everyone else have […]

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“Conspiracy of Silence”

November 6, 2012 at 10:48 am

I started my LA346 class this semester with a discussion of the Penn State scandal, and the civil litigation that has followed. I find it hard to talk about Sandusky and what happened at Penn State without getting emotional, and I try really hard to keep my views out of the discussion (often unsuccessfully). But […]

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Non Competition Agreements and the “Purge” at Apple

November 1, 2012 at 12:32 pm

Last night my husband was telling me about the “purge” at Apple, where the company had fired several key employees that had close ties to Steve Jobs. This story is fascinating in all sorts of ways, because it raises questions about new CEO Tim Cook’s leadership, perhaps his efforts to move the company away from […]

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