All summer long several of our colleagues have shared lovely produce, most especially sweet grape tomatoes. So much produce was shared that some of it has sat for days abandoned […]
Category: Getting to know Champaign-Urbana
More bumper sticker fallout
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that the National Communication Association is comdemning the University of Illinois policy of restricting employees’ political speech. And further down the page, in mathlete news, a 13-million-digit […]
My bumper is clean
Inside Higher Ed reports today that University of Illinois employees may “not wear political buttons on campus or feature bumper stickers on cars parked in campus lots unless the messages on those […]
Fashion Notes
Having worked for two Big Ten schools and lived in four university towns, I still chuckle at how the school colors can get the fashion juices flowing. Admittedly, the Illini […]
David Foster Wallace
To continue the blog’s thread on books we’ve started but never finished: I was sitting in our family room this past weekend eyeballing the varying spines on our bookshelves. Infinite Jest […]
Today! AAUP Book Show reception
The University of Illinois Press is hosting the (traveling) 2008 Book Show of the Association of American University Presses, September 8-19, M-F 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Forty-five winning books and thirty […]
Publishing neighbor close to sale
PW Daily reports this morning that Sports Publishing LLC, based in our hometown, has had financial difficulties lately and is being sold to a Chicago company. […]
Will Davis, meet Chase Daniel
I won’t be checking e-mail or watching TV or playing backyard soccer on Saturday evening. I’m making the trip to St. Louis for one of Rivals.com’s five games to watch in […]
Slowride
What ’70s rockers and Guitar Hero 3 contributors will be rockin’ the Urbana Sweet Corn Festival this weekend? If you come out, look for the tallest guy in the crowd […]
A challenge to “Kite Runner” in the local schools
Incoming sophomores at my oldest son’s high school are given Kite Runner as a summer reading assignment (he is currently reading There Are No Children Here for his freshman assignment). Word circulating on the […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 5
Champaign’s Assembly Hall is a most endangered historic place, reports the Chicago Tribune. I drive past this building every day on my way home from work and have enjoyed many […]
Getting to Know Champaign-Urbana, Part 4
Oronte Churm writes about the elementary education system in Champaign-Urbana at Inside Higher Ed. “Everyone (but me) seems to know the names of the best primary school in town (private tuition is $1,000 […]