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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 30, 2020 13:47:25 GMT -5
Ahhhh! The sarcasm was missed. Or you just chose to double-down! I was joining you! Well done!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 28, 2020 13:17:29 GMT -5
At least this kind of hanky-panky doesn't happen at Liberty or BYU or any really religious universities! That's not what I was told by the pool boy!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 26, 2020 19:09:58 GMT -5
Instead of more bricks and mortar, our next big financial fund raising push needs to be for student scholarships.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 26, 2020 12:16:38 GMT -5
Also was rated most beautiful in New England a while ago.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 26, 2020 12:06:10 GMT -5
Speaking of Notre Dame, why has Holy Cross never played them in football? I would have thought we would have ben an attractive opponent in our glory days.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 26, 2020 11:59:56 GMT -5
Pretty interesting and diverse group! Glad to see Fr Markey is still around!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 24, 2020 12:00:46 GMT -5
Holy Cross professor of sports economics Victor Matheson is quoted in this article that appeared in the Boston Globe: "When ticket sales (not this year, of course), sponsorships, merchandising, and donor contributions are added, BC is “probably generating at least $50 million a year” off its football program, said Holy Cross professor of sports economics Victor Matheson. Those funds go a long way toward subsidizing the school’s sizable athletic program." When I read stuff like this, it makes me dream about what might have been possible in an alternative universe where we did not decide to transition to 1-AA those many years ago.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 22, 2020 11:10:13 GMT -5
Notre Dame Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia BC Miami Virginia Tech
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 18, 2020 19:41:44 GMT -5
I do not see what will change between now and then to allow this to happen.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 18, 2020 19:39:57 GMT -5
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 18, 2020 19:32:36 GMT -5
Ky, As I understand this, in the case we are talking about, the extremely high incomes of the super wealthy mean that the middle number (median) is dragged upwards and away above where the large majority of incomes are. The average (mean), will be lower, even though the mean is also affected.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 18, 2020 12:48:05 GMT -5
I believe things have been getting more affordable if you believe that median income is an indicator of such All data indexed for inflation to 2019 $$$ ($1,000) 1980. $56.7 1990 $58.4 2000 $61.1 2010 $58.0 Now some recent data year by year 2015 $56.9 2016 $ 59.0 2017 $61.6 2018 $62.3 2019 $ 63.0 The median is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descending list of values. As such, it is distorted when there are very high or low values way outside the norm. That is exactly the case with income in the US. Over the last generation, we have seen most peoples income stagnate, while a sliver (the 1%) have increased their income many multiples of times. For this reason, the median income in the US tells you nothing about the affordability for the large majority of folks.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 16, 2020 11:00:28 GMT -5
Duke Blue Devils Pittsburgh Panthers Notre Dame Fighting Irish UCF Knights UNC Tar Heels Clemson Tigers Louisville Cardinals Wake Forest Demon Deacons
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 15, 2020 12:31:12 GMT -5
Wow. Is that ever an enlightening article. So many things that I did not know, the main one being that the Healy brothers did not embrace the abolitionist cause, and joked about race as they hid their ethnicity. Wow. We now have celebrated them as our nation's first black college president and bishop, but these are designations that they would not have embraced. Also, I had no idea about this: "Healy did not transact a slave sale for the express purpose of benefiting Holy Cross. Nonetheless, it was Healy’s inheritance, amassed from forced labor, that saved Holy Cross from demise, just as Mulledy’s sale brought Georgetown back from the brink." In my experience, these things have not been a part of the discussion on campus about the Healys. I always wondered why we did not trumpet this legacy more, and now, perhaps, I understand. Anyway, a wonderful article and fascinating stuff!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 15, 2020 12:10:59 GMT -5
These stories rely on some fast and loose research that placed responsibility on Georgetown University (a college which had no slaves of its own) versus Mulledy's role as the Jesuit provincial, acting upon orders from Rome. As provincial, Mulledy was de facto rector of all Jesuit churches and schools in the province, not just Georgetown; yet no one calls out Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga College HS, or for that matter, any other Jesuit church in operation in the Eastern United States for his actions. That Georgetown was so quick to assume culpability for something done by the order further clouds this story. And as you undoubtably know, Mulledy next became President of Holy Cross! It is a tangled web.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 15, 2020 11:25:40 GMT -5
That's impressive for Clark to be ranked above the University of Vermont. i always understood UVM to be hard to get into, especially for out of state students, but that doesn't have to equate to academic quality. WPI is tied with UMass-Amherst. I don't know what that says because to me they are two very different institutions. What does it say that Holy Cross is behind Colorado College? May relate to the quality of the hockey team.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 14, 2020 12:13:32 GMT -5
That's a great one. Imagine if this happened today. They probably would have evacuated the stadium!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 12, 2020 12:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 12, 2020 11:55:02 GMT -5
There was one in front of the late, not so great, Roberts Center, right? Maybe another one at the entrance off of Comm. Ave. Which one did you guys paint? Has the time limit expired on prosecution?
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 11, 2020 16:12:14 GMT -5
I hope they haven't moved the eagle I helped to paint purple in 1967.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 11, 2020 12:27:38 GMT -5
In my opinion, the discussion of how ill young people get, and how few of them die is missing an important issue that we are learning more about. Long term, serious complications are emerging in young people that are not being captured by the statistics people talk about. One example is MIS-C, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Kids with MIS-C develop later, severe abdominal pain, high fevers, vomiting, diarrhea and sometimes sprawling rashes or bloodshot eyes. Often, they have to be hospitalized and can experience damage to multiple organs — characteristics immediately recognized as similar to Kawasaki disease. Another worrisome observation is that neurological symptoms have been widespread, and the virus has just been recently shown to invade and grow in brain tissue. This was previously unknown. A 28 year old female school teacher recently died from COVID 19 in North Carolina, just 3 days after having her infection diagnosed. We should not be cavalier about the risk to young people. www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/parenting/children-coronavirus-sickness.html?searchResultPosition=3www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/31/us/coronavirus-cases-children.html?searchResultPosition=7
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 9, 2020 15:50:43 GMT -5
Don't call him Shirley.
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 9, 2020 15:49:34 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by Chu Chu on Sept 9, 2020 15:38:54 GMT -5
Miami Syracuse ND Florida St Pitt Clemson Louisville
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Post by Chu Chu on Aug 22, 2020 15:57:30 GMT -5
Res ipsa loquitur
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