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Yale Shocker: Cosseted Ivy League Deans Hate Scrappy Union UpstartsToday, more than 300 grad student workers at Yale will vote on whether or not they want to unionize. You may be shocked to learn that the powers that be at this enlightened center of liberal learning are not thrilled!...

Curious-Ass Scholars Look Into "-Ass" As A Modifier[Adjective]-ass [noun]. It’s a construction equally dear to elite-ass athletes and cool-ass bloggers—and even a few academic-ass linguists, as this illuminating post from JSTOR’s Daily blog reveals. An intensifier that renders its adjective friend that much pungent or that much more emphatic, “-ass”...

My Proposals For The Billy Joel Musicology ConferenceOh, hell yes. This is a real thing, and it will be amazing....

March Madness Means Crowd-Surfing College President Selfies

Jameis Winston Isn't The Only Problem Here: An FSU Teacher's Lament

We love the game. We love the players, too, even when they scare us....

Tufts Takes Away Lance Armstrong's Honorary Degree

When Lance Armstrong gave the commencement speech at Tufts University in 2006, the school awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters. They cited his "tremendous grit and courage," and called his cycling comeback "a story of sheer determination."...

Here's Video Of That Quiet Little Accounting Professor Getting Ejected

Via DC Sports Bog, we finally have video of George Washington accounting professor Robert Kasmir getting disorderly and getting tossed from a game in which he was honored at halftime. If you have any accounting jokes left over from yesterday, now's the time....

An Update On The 2007 Study That Found That NBA Referees Are Kind Of Racist

In 2007, two economists released a study arguing that in NBA seasons from 1991 to 2004, white referees called more fouls against black players than against white players, and the NBA got angry. On Wednesday, TrueHoop's Henry Abbott broke down the story....