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Guest post by Michael A. Olivas On March 26, 2014, National Labor Relations Board Chicago regional director Peter Ohr held that Northwestern’s football players were employees and, as a result, eligible to vote whether they would unionize. Ohr wrote, “It is clear that the scholarships the players receive are compensation for the athletic services they perform…
Guest post by Michael A. Olivas On March 26, 2014, National Labor Relations Board Chicago regional director Peter Ohr held that Northwestern’s football players were employees and, as a result, eligible to vote whether they would unionize. Ohr wrote, “It is clear that the scholarships the players receive are compensation for the athletic services they perform…
Guest Post by Holly Dugan Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer's famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales…
Guest Post by Holly Dugan Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer's famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales…
Guest post by Mike Gesker “Well, it was the Mardi Gras. It was New Year’s Eve and it was the 4th of July all wrapped into one. I never remember during my time in Baltimore a more joyous occasion.” That’s the way the venerable sports reporter John Steadman recalled the gala celebration of April 15,…
By Dean Smith, director, Project MUSE During a snowstorm in the early morning hours of March 29, 1984, fifteen Mayflower moving vans arrived at Baltimore Colts headquarters in Owings Mills. Marcia Luria, on her way to work at WCBM radio station, saw the convoy of trucks headed down Reisterstown Road. “I got in and called…
Guest Post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Putting a name to an illness is as much a social task as it is a medical one. The pursuit of diagnosis is often the reason we choose to seek medical attention (“What’s wrong with me, doctor?”). It separates the lay person from the professional (doctors diagnose, lay people…
Guest Post by April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH, and Shannon Frattaroli, PhD The phrase “mass shooting” calls to mind the recent and highly publicized tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, and Tucson. However, according to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, 40% of the mass shootings that occurred between January 2009 and January 2013 involved a perpetrator killing his…
Never ones to shy away from taking a cue from others, we asked several experts on higher education to comment on NPR’s ongoing series, Paying for College. Today's installment features John V. Lombardi, author of How Universities Work, on why the cost of higher education to students and families continues to grow and what the…
Never ones to shy away from taking a cue from others, we asked several experts on higher education to comment on NPR’s ongoing series, Paying for College. Today's installment features John V. Lombardi, author of How Universities Work, on why the cost of higher education to students and families continues to grow and what the…