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Post by alum on Feb 23, 2024 7:56:27 GMT -5
as i noted in my previous posts on the topic, the intolerance mind virus has infected medicine and medical training. here are our future physicians disrespectfully interrupting/yelling over a presentation by the president of the american medical association (ironically on the topic of lgbtq+, which is still not enough to appease them)... because his group had not released an official statement in support of palestine. http://instagram.com/p/C3mQrznMrID it is appalling to think that folks this immature and one-sided in their view of the world will be providing clinical care to patients someday. i am simply astonished at how much politics has infiltrated medical training today, from the "social justice" track at our medical school to the extraordinarily disrespectful interruption of any topic with which there is even mild disagreement. again, i commend pvr for taking a stand against this toxicity in favor of respectful dialog and encouragement of diversity of opinions. I assume that you have no free speech objection to the students criticizing the AMA for failing to speak on behalf of providers in Gaza (assuming they haven’t as I have no idea.) Your objection, I take it is to the time, manner, and place of speech and not the content. The students should have waited until a comment portion of the session.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 15:12:30 GMT -5
This is a good idea. It was New Britain Day when HC played at CCSU in basketball last November. There were New Britain High cheerleaders and band members who participated in the game day entertainment. The kids are there. Presumably, most of the parents but tickets and attend as well.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 8:45:53 GMT -5
Interestingly, the NCAA runs the mile as opposed to the 1500 at the indoor national championships. The PL has followed suit. HC soph Liam Lyons is ranked 9th in the conference going into the meet with a 4:07. Slightly off the topic but I’d like to see a sub-4:00 in our record books. Me, too. If Lyons drops a couple more seconds this year, it will give me hope he is the one. Of course, Dulong, who we have discussed on this board previously, ran 4:04 in high school but never got below 4:00 in college and then gave up competing within a couple of years after that.
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Post by alum on Feb 22, 2024 6:32:49 GMT -5
They run a mile on 400 meter tracks just by changing the finish line or starting line. I have never seen an 800 meter track at a school in all my years as a coach and/or official. Interestingly, the NCAA runs the mile as opposed to the 1500 at the indoor national championships. The PL has followed suit. HC soph Liam Lyons is ranked 9th in the conference going into the meet with a 4:07.
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Post by alum on Feb 21, 2024 20:50:00 GMT -5
Good win. Congrats to DP
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Post by alum on Feb 21, 2024 14:48:58 GMT -5
Nova has far better facilities, inc a new on campus arena It took a great coach a few years Pitino may not have the time His negatives may also be a hindrance that Wright did not have Ask most parents whether they'd rather have their son play in a new campus arena or MSG, I think the latter wins.
MSG? I think that Dan Hurley counts that place as another arena where he has home court advantage.
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Post by alum on Feb 21, 2024 8:40:59 GMT -5
Chapter 222 www.massadvocates.org/chapter-222I am guessing that the state has not provided sufficient resources to undertake the programming this statute provides and districts find it less expensive to just let the problem kids stay in school as opposed to offering the alternatives.
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Post by alum on Feb 20, 2024 20:09:31 GMT -5
I know you were in the military, but I have to quibble with the assertion that border security is “well within” the President’s commander in chief authority. Legislation places this responsibility in executive branch agencies other than the armed forces. Those entering are, for the most part, are seeking better lives here, not seeking to wage war or harm us. What are these soldiers at the border going to do? Shoot people with their hands up seeking to apply for asylum? Assuming your serious, and as a threshold manner, I guess you don’t realize Bush, Obama and Trump sent federalized National Guard troops to the border. You may be unaware that the National Guard has a rather robust engineering and construction capability. Not to mention experience in past border activities including aviation, operational, and infrastructure missions, Shooting people? Waging war? Where did that come from? Too many video games. All of the people on Twitter who want to send troops plan on having them point guns at people coming across the border so they turn around. They don’t view this as doing disaster relief. The members of Congress who are saying just send troops are doing that to justify their refusal to support a legislative effort because they are terrified that the base will support primary opponents pursuant to the orders of their Lord and Savior, DJT
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Post by alum on Feb 20, 2024 17:26:52 GMT -5
Are you saying that thjeir choice to cross illegally into the US is OK if they are allowed to stay? In any case, they are here only. because of their illegal entry...how is that being herre "legally?" You’d think greatly improved border security, well within the purview of the commander in chief, would go a (very) long way towards preventing many illegal border crossings. If you wanted to prevent many illegal border crossings, that is. I know you were in the military, but I have to quibble with the assertion that border security is “well within” the President’s commander in chief authority. Legislation places this responsibility in executive branch agencies other than the armed forces. Those entering are, for the most part, are seeking better lives here, not seeking to wage war or harm us. What are these soldiers at the border going to do? Shoot people with their hands up seeking to apply for asylum?
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Post by alum on Feb 20, 2024 12:20:08 GMT -5
Eileen Sullivan By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington Nov. 21, 2023 Under President Biden, the Border Patrol has arrested more people for illegally crossing the southern border into the country than in any other period since the government started keeping count in 1960.
His time in office coincides with a global migration movement driven by tens of millions of people displaced because of war, persecution, climate change, violence and human rights abuses, according to the United Nations.
More Americans far from the border are witnessing the trend as migrants make their way to cities around the country. Most of these migrants have been told to appear in immigration court, often years from now. Some seek asylum with the goal of staying in the country permanently.
Republicans have long used immigration as a cudgel against Democrats. Now Democratic officials in parts of the country are asking the Biden administration to do more to help support the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrive in their cities with nothing.
It is drawing attention to an immigration system that has been under strain for decades. Congress has failed to update laws designed to address the American economy and migration trends of 30 years ago. And the asylum system, chronically understaffed and underfunded, has a backlog of two million cases that some say is insurmountable.
Here is a by-the-numbers look at the current system based on data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Border Patrol agents made that many arrests from February 2021 through the end of this September. During that time, border officials quickly released more than 1.7 million people to stay in the country temporarily. Thousands more were transferred to an immigration detention center and released to do the same.
People have one year from the day they enter the United States to file an asylum application. There is no public data about the percentage of people who cross into the country without authorization and end up applying for asylum.
More than 800,000 applications
That is the number of people who applied for asylum in the past year, a 63 percent jump over the number of applications filed in the previous year.
Because people have a year to apply for asylum, the number of applications each month often correlates with the number of crossings the previous year. In the 2022 fiscal year, border officials made 2.3 million apprehensions, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960, when the government first began tracking such entries.
More than two million in backlog
That is the number of people in the United States who are waiting for an answer from the federal government about whether they will be granted asylum.
Some of the migrants face persecution or torture in their home countries and could qualify for asylum in the United States. But most do not fit within the qualifications set in a 1980 law that Congress has not updated.
During periods of increased crossings in the past couple of years, at least half of the migrants who have been apprehended have been given permission to stay in the country and fight deportation orders in immigration court.
Although the numbers vary by month, U.S. government data shows that more than half of the people who crossed the southern border illegally in July and August were released from custody after a few days with permission to stay temporarily.
Fewer than 1,500 judges and asylum officers
There are 659 immigration judges and about 800 asylum officers who make decisions about asylum claims. In July, the government received about nine applications for every case it closed.
Asylum applications are filed to two separate government agencies: immigration court, which is part of the Justice Department, and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the Homeland Security Department.
Immigration court is typically the route used by people who have crossed into the country illegally at the southern border. They line up to turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents and are placed in deportation proceedings. While their cases are being decided, they can apply for asylum in immigration court.
It would cost more than $2 billion to eliminate the immigration court backlog over the next five years, according to analyses and data in recent funding requests.
People who apply for asylum through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services often are those who came to the country legally, such as through a humanitarian parole program or on a visitor’s visa.
The agency would not provide an estimated cost for what it would take to get rid of its asylum backlog. But officials say it is too deeply underfunded to catch up any time soon. The agency’s asylum backlog just exceeded one million for the first time.
Ten years in limbo
That is how long some people wait for the government to issue a decision on their asylum claim. Recent estimates show the wait times average three years in immigration court and 10 years if an application is filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Even as additional resources are added to help manage the overwhelming workload, far more asylum applications are filed each year than the government is able to resolve.
For many, the yearslong wait for a decision is benefit enough. Asylum seekers can work legally and often live in much safer environments than the ones they fled. Policymakers say this waiting period, which tends to grow as the backlog grows, has been one of the biggest drivers of illegal immigration.
1.3 million with deportation orders
That is the number of people who have been told they must leave the country but are still living in the United States, according to an official familiar with the internal government data. This includes people whose asylum claims have been denied. Once migrants are told by an immigration judge that they must leave the country, they have 90 days to do so. But many never do.
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Post by alum on Feb 20, 2024 10:29:48 GMT -5
Perhaps it is complicated by undocumented immigrants in a sanctuary state? If you start by ignoring the law and you are rewarded, or nothing happens, no one should be shocked if that seeps into other areas as well. Let's not forget that a very large percentage of the undocumented immigrants are here legally. They have crossed the border and turned themselves in to Border Patrol officials. They are not ignoring the law. Rather, they are following it. The problem is that the system is underfunded and not responsive to how this problem has evolved. You may recall that we came close to a legislative fix to this problem during the GWB presidency but it collapsed at the last minute and nothing has happened since. We need an overhaul of the process and we need hundreds if not thousands of court rooms, judges, staff, etc to quickly handle these cases. Here is an article from late last year in the Times with a quick explanation about how this works. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/us/politics/migrant-crisis-border-asylum.htmlI am sure that there are children of undocumented immigrants at Brockton High, but I don't think they represent a very large percentage of the student body.
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Post by alum on Feb 19, 2024 8:33:38 GMT -5
This sounds like a horrible situation. I have no idea exactly what the National Guard is expected to do, but I won't blame board members who are trying to solve problems. A quck bit of Googling reveals that the district's finances are in shambles as well Already reeling, Brockton School Committee finds new $14 million deficit, as superintendent goes on extended medical leave By Deanna Pan Globe Staff,Updated August 31, 2023, 11:43 p.m.
Brockton schools were already grappling with an $18 million shortfall that’s prompted painful cuts across the district, including more than 100 teachers and staffers being laid off.
But late Thursday, Mayor Robert Sullivan announced the Brockton School Committee recently uncovered an additional $14 million deficit in the fiscal year 2023 budget, an extraordinary revelation just days before the school year begins.
Sullivan also said Superintendent Mike Thomas informed the committee he would be out on extended medical leave.
“Collectively, we are all dismayed by the situation and we are committed to ensuring that we will rectify this situation, appoint new leadership, and move forward with our strategy . . . to deliver the best schools for our teachers, our staff, our students, our parents, and of course our guardians,” said Sullivan, who also chairs the School Committee, in a prepared statement to the press.
According to Sullivan, Thomas did not attend Thursday’s meeting.
“The Committee is acutely focused on formulating and implementing a leadership plan that provides the support and services and the levels our students and families deserve,” he said.
Sullivan did not take questions from the press, and did not say what the budget gap might mean for students and teachers, or how it came about.
The School Committee met behind closed doors in executive session at Brockton High School for four hours in a special meeting while dozens of members of the public waited outside. The Committee will meet again Friday at 3:30 p.m. for an emergency meeting at the high school.
Brockton is among the districts across the country facing tough financial constraints as student populations decline and pandemic-era federal aid comes to an end. In Brockton, more than 80 percent of the district’s 14,900 students are children of color and three in four come from low-income families.
The district was forced to lay off at least 130 teachers and staff this summer as result of the previously known deficit, triggering protests from teachers, parents and students. And this fall, in a highly unusual move, Thomas, the superintendent, was set to assume the role of interim principal of Brockton High School, the state’s largest with 3,700 students, in addition to his duties running the wider school system.
Gamaliel Lauture, co-executive director of the nonprofit Brockton Interfaith Community, waited for hours alongside dozens of others in the parking lot of Brockton High School to learn why a special School Committee meeting had been called.
The public agenda said members were meeting in executive session to “discuss the reputation, character, physical condition or mental health, rather than professional competence, of an individual, or to discuss the discipline or dismissal of, or complaints or charges brought against, a public officer, employee, staff member or individual.”
Lauture said he was disappointed but not surprised by Sullivan’s lack of clarity about the $14 million deficit.
“We advocated for transparency and accountability on all facets of government and it’s something we are still waiting for,” Lauture said. “That’s money that’s unaccounted for.”
Deanna Pan can be reached at deanna.pan@globe.com. Follow her @ddpan.www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/31/metro/already-reeling-brockton-school-committee-finds-new-14-million-deficit-superintendent-goes-extended-med-leave/
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Post by alum on Feb 18, 2024 20:43:12 GMT -5
Dan S. ‘75 is at home recovering from heart surgery per his employer, the Boston Globe. Hope he recovers quickly.
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Post by alum on Feb 18, 2024 6:37:08 GMT -5
Am I right that so long as we don’t lose in regulation to Bentley while SH beats Bentley in regulation, we will get second? And if Canisius beats RIT twice in regulation and we beat Bentley in regulation, our guys are regular season champs?
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Post by alum on Feb 18, 2024 6:34:21 GMT -5
Am I right that so long as we don’t lose in regulation to Bentley while SH beats Bentley in regulation, we will get second?
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Post by alum on Feb 16, 2024 12:31:40 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Feb 14, 2024 9:43:32 GMT -5
HC70?
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Post by alum on Feb 12, 2024 12:10:03 GMT -5
Does anyone recall what was raised for football on last year’s giving day ? Contributors to football( and possibly men’s hoops) N.I.L $$ could have put their $$ there instead of the CAF. If so, not an ideal situation. I think that is is also possible that donors who are associated with certain teams might have simply decided to make gifts to the College generally or for some other purpose such as financial aid. I did that this time. Am I correct that in some years there has been a separate fundraising day for the CAF with gifts designated to certain teams if the donor wants? Is that happening this year?
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Super Bowl
Feb 11, 2024 22:51:12 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Feb 11, 2024 22:51:12 GMT -5
Fun game. Mahomes and Reid making a statement
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Post by alum on Feb 9, 2024 10:00:54 GMT -5
I attended a lecture, "The Constitution of Academic Liberty", by Niall Ferguson of Hoover at Princeton yesterday afternoon. It's part of the James Madison program hosted by Prof. Robert George. The Scotsman is a prolific publisher (16 books) and touched on several issues raised in this thread. One of his more interesting slides was entitled "Number of Democratic Faculty Members for Every Republican in 25 Academic Fields." Here is an abbreviated version: Engineering 1.6 Chemistry 5.2 Economic 5.5 Physics 6.2 History 17.4 Classics 27.3 Sociology 43.8 English 48.3 Religion 70 Sample size: 5,116; the paper was published in 2018 by a Brooklyn College professor. Anyone see a pattern here? I will try to post the video when it is up on the Madison program site. Here is the referenced Brooklyn College professor's study of the political affilliation of faculty at the top liberal arts colleges. HC is included. www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal_arts_college_facultyI have no doubt that the data is reasonably accurate, although online sources of party affiliation are hardly perfect as the professor acknowledged. Many states don't keep track of party affiliation. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/registering-by-party-where-the-democrats-and-republicans-are-ahead/ That said, it is important to note that only a small percentage of college students attend these elite LACs. More college students major in "business" than anything else, by a wide margin. Health care jobs (non MD, inc. nursing, PT etc) are probably second. There are few students getting degrees in those fields at the schools the professor surveyed. This study is presumably valid for what it tests but not valid for higher education as a whole. I would surmise that professors in business etc might not be as predominantly Democrats, but I have no data to support that. The real question is why. Are the traditional liberal arts fields of more interest to people more likely to register as Democrats than Republicans? Are Republicans being discriminated against in hiring? Are there other reasons?
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Post by alum on Feb 6, 2024 15:51:25 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Feb 6, 2024 12:24:03 GMT -5
“I have come to appreciate more deeply the impact of institutional statements on campus culture and in the classroom. Statements on politics and current events may unintentionally deter campus members from fully expressing their views or engaging in scholarship.” If this is a statement indicating a belated appreciation for diversity of opinion on college campuses -especially opinions contrary to the prevailing campus liberal orthodoxy - it is certainly welcome. Of course, he may have something completely different in mind. Another take might be a reconsideration of his decision to post an editorial regarding Judge Thomas on the eve of the Supreme Court’s decision on race- based college admissions, I don't think that VR is saying that he didn't previously believe in diversity of opinion on campus. I think he is expressing a better appreciation for the possiblity that institutional speech can have the effect, intended or not, of chilling contrary speech by other members of the community and that he has decided that the institution should sacrifice whatever value its speech has for the greater good of robust speech by other members of the community.
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Post by alum on Feb 6, 2024 11:39:32 GMT -5
I mostly agree with what he says, although I don't know how frequently the College has issued an institutional statement, either through him or his predecessors so I am not sure how much practical effect this will have. I do have a couple of thoughts:
1. I can't tell for sure whether VR has reserved to himself the right to comment individually on matters which are not appropriate for an institutional statement. Will he continue to speak but make it clear that he is commenting as an individual and not on behalf of the College? I guess we just wait and watch.
2. He writes that among the factors to be considered in deciding whether the institution should speak is "Whether our particular Jesuit, Catholic mission and identity call us to join other higher education institutions to help positively influence the matter." Is anyone else concerned that he has cast alma mater in the role of a follower as opposed to a leader? Caution isn't always a good thing.
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Post by alum on Feb 6, 2024 8:15:46 GMT -5
I saw something that said the compensation was the swag they get for being on the team. That seems like a stretch to me.
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Post by alum on Feb 5, 2024 10:44:08 GMT -5
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