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Well, nature does abhor a vacuum.

I don't think it's a myth at all because I don't think anyone at the U or anywhere else thinks that. We are well aware our incoming classes are mostly from very well-off backgrounds. We don't attract that much 1%er aristocracy like the Ivies but only the minority of our students (at least in Engin) are from families that ever pinched their pennies.

you mean we aren't replacing Decker?

this is right answer

yeah - the right's idea that you can reduce the role of government is basically a chimera. Work on making it work better, stop with the fantasy that's it's the enemy or that it's going to go away - it's a counter-productive waste of energy. If the government is the enemy in a democracy that means the people are the enemy - it just makes no sense as political theory.

Hilarious

it's never been a secret there are legacy points in the admissions scoring. The big problem for all colleges is the other end. Unlike in the immediate post WWII US, the quality of publics schools has become much more tightly correlated to the wealth of the local district. This probably has less to do with anything the colleges have done as much as with the dissolution of structured family life across working class America. So college preparedness has become another have vs have not economic issue. Colleges can and do take on students that need remediation but it's a big effort and will not likely ever be a big % of a student body. To fix the problem look less to the end of the chain and more to the base. We need to improve working class public ed in the US not only for that but for all the other equity issues involved.

right. What's the problem? Other than (all) that , he did fine.

If they want to prevent tension with academics, then just hire the athletes as staff. If they are being paid they are pros, so that's were this is all going anyway. At some point the duck rule needs to be applied.

If I am parsing the dates correctly, Campbell was hired on Jan 20th, Lynn Jan 27th, do we really even think Lynn was Campbell's hire or did they give him a list of guys they have already vetted and have him pick one that sounded good? I find it hard to believe Lynn was a hire Campbell was all that invested in after a one week's involvement in the decision process. And even if he was, you'd certainly prefer a guy that knows how to move on to a guy that goes down with a crew of under performers like Mike Dantonio did!

still, the comment by Fisher is apples and oranges. A middle class kid looking for an education to get ahead is not comparable in any academic sense to an athlete that simply wants to use the U as step toward a professional athletic career that has little to nothing to do with his academic experience per se. The former comes to the U with the objective of pulling himself up to the academic standard, does the latter? I can easily see admissions not being swayed by such an argument.

If that's the case I suppose he should at least be more reliable at the baseline.

I don't believe that is correct. As I understand it, the US did distribute direct development support funds to several pharmas. Ironically, Pfizer, who was first to market, did not take any US development funds, but was the recipient of a US gov purchase guarantee. Moderna did get $1.5 billion and their vaccine may actually be the best of the bunch so far. Then again, 3.5 billion went to Novovax and Sanofi for efforts that haven't produced an approved candidate yet - but both do have products still in trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed

Blashill hasn't taken much heat this season, but at some point he's got to do more than just complain that his team isn't ready to play when they hit the ice on the road, he needs to figure out what to do about it.

Wings have looked like HS team out there against the '86 Oilers. I don't have the heart to watch any more.

Hronek looks completely useless so far tonight. If he's still hurt maybe he needs a few games off.

2-0, the Kings on a power play and the Wings being skated right out the building. Suter finally gets the Wings 1st shot on a short handed breakaway.

terrible play by Hronek - gives up his feet to try to block a pass and ends up spectating as the man he left is wide open for a goal on the expired PP before the 5th wing can get back in the play.

And Veleno going off for tripping.

Wings playing like crap out of the gate. LA with 8 shots in the first 3:30.

not quite yet to border line panic about his shooting.

Not to mention that testing is now another moving target. It appears that antigen rapid tests may not even detect Omicron until a couple days past your point of infectiousness, so the the messaging even if we could figure it out correctly is getting to be more complicated than much of the public is going to have the patience to parse. The problem is structural though. Public health in the US has never been located in the Federal gov - it's largely a state and even county responsibility in most places. And then you have GOP govs and legislatures hamstringing their own public health depts that are trying to respond. For the fed to build out something like a massive testing capability they have to start at ground zero. Simply paying for tests, as they have been doing so far, doesn't really control the supply as we have seen the manufacturers pull back when they anticipated demand would fall. To do it right you really need a package of enabling legislation to set up some new capacities, but what are the odds of anything getting done legislatively? What maybe they could have done, and probably should have, is set up a standing federal governor's conference where they could have tried to get coordinate to keep state govs on the same page - but again, what would that have looked like when most of the GOP govs refused to show up?

the question is overkill for whom of course. It may be overkill for the young parents, but from the standpoint of the group, their stance is simply a fact in evidence that is beyond our control, all we can do is deal with it to the best advantage of our friend.

but OTOH, it what happens when you have group of people with a sense of mutual obligation to each other - it's the very thing lacking in the larger society. That is what should have been the thing motivating people to get vaccinated even if they didn't fear or care about getting sick themselves.

but it never bothered him to spend all that time with hundreds of unmasked people. It's probably part of his psychosis - in the sense that he persuades himself of the truth of his fabrications, because it's a good point that Trump's behavior in public places has for certain not been that of a germophobe. Or maybe he just got over it.