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[stevelee]

I had neighbors (parents of Stagg Newman, for those of you who know him) who told me they read the WSJ to see how Walt Mossberg would insult their pastor. (In reality, he never did it in print, but it was a neat thing for them to say.)
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[i77cat]

I occasionally read the Winston-Salem Journal.
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[wildforthecats]

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More replies to replies; thanks for responding to my invitation to dialogue.

Dr. Bliss: Thanks, that's good stuff.

catborn'bred: #6 is sad, but I guess not surprising.

BDF: Sorry, but your second line is not in harmony with the report. Salary is in the "Outcomes" category, which is the most highly weighted. Therefore Davidson's relatively high score in that area actually raised their overall ranking. Regarding disproportionate positive influence on the world, indeed, that is not a ranked category. But I maintain my original point, that "Engagement" is the most Davidson-y of the categories, if you will, and if the mid-level ranking is not disturbing, it is at least curious. Maybe we need to do as catborn'bred referenced*, and be sure our happier students get the THE surveys. (I kid, I kid.That would be the administrative equivalent of an Honor Code violation.) But it is sort of a commonplace that people with a complaint speak up more often than those who are satisfied, so in fact are the more disgruntled students doing the survey out of proportion to their numbers? How does one fix that?

stevelee and MM15: I am negligent in not noting that this is the WSJ/Times Higher Education survey. THE is the data supplier. Argue with them as you wish.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/about-us

stevelee: I suspect that reducing the number of "young Republicans" applying to Davidson would endanger the species, but I'm not on campus, so I'll be open to correction on that. But . . . there are different kinds of diversity. And in follow-up, one of my best experiences at Davidson was Econ 101 (?) with Dr. Patterson. He insisted that class members read every word on every page of the WSJ, on the (correct) assumption that the important story might be in the lower corner of page B12. Interestingly, radical journalist I F Stone had a similar approach in that he skipped most of the press conferences with the bigwigs and read all the documents quietly published by various government departments. He was just about the only person who did that back in his day, and he found lots of good stuff that way. But back to Dr. Patterson, a true gentleman, a great teacher. And in my case the daily read of the WSJ started a lifetime habit for which I am utterly unapologetic.

Cheers to all; Allenda Lux Ubi Orta Libertas.

*Please note carefully that I said "referenced," not advocated. Refer back to his post for clarification if necessary.
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[stevelee]

One of my classmates sends me links to WSJ articles, so that's the way I read them. Since I don't see the physical paper very often any more, I don't know if this is still true. There used to be a huge contrast between the news and editorial content. The former was really good; the latter tended toward good old-fashioned Voodoo Economics as the cure for everything, so good or bad depending upon whether you swallowed that.

My knowledge of the recent state of Young Republicans on campus is just from laments in The Davidsonian sounding like a persecuted minority.

The club was rather strong when I was here, and I marvel at how many of my friends I knew from that association. It was a different time, I realize. LBJ had us in Vietnam, and Jesse Helms and most folks like him were still Democrats.
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[MikeMaloy15]

Why would I argue? I declared myself indifferent. Arguing seems inappropriate when you're indifferent.

The first rule of "I Don't Care Club" is I don't care.

[stevelee]

I just saw an article on which are the freest and least free states. The ratings were done by the Cato institute. Offhand it seemed to me that their criteria would suggest that Somalia would be paradise.
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