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1. philip copeland says

   February 15, 2011 at 9:38 pm

   Actually . . . 

    

   In the tech world, the latest breaking news comes from twitter.  

    

   That culture releases all of the latest information, innuendo, and rumor on twitter – at least from what I can tell.

    

   philip

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2. John Howell says

   February 13, 2011 at 6:31 pm

   Thanks, Philip, although I fear for the nation if we’re starting to get our news via tweets!!!

    

   Regarding the first item, the court settlement, isn’t it interesting that the article reports all the gory details of a so-called “confidential settlement”?!!!  But more importantly it points up the sad fact that some people really ARE impossible to get along with, and seem to have no clue that in academia as in many other fields, reputation is everything, and no school in its right mind will ever, EVER hire someone who has proven their lack of collegiality by going to court and suing for large cash settlements. Nobody wants to work with a troublemaker.

    

   Over the years we’ve had people here who are impossible to get along with, and others who were flat-out incompetent, and over the years they have failed to be retained.  That’s the way it’s supposed to work.  And two of them threatened to file suit, in one case for gender discrimination and in the other for religious discrimination, neither of which had the slightest basis in fact.  But that’s why lawyers get the big bucks, isn’t it?!!

    

   The tenure process followed up by periodic peer reviews are supposed to take care of things like this.  Obviously in Iowa they didn’t.  And since the union was apparently involved, everything should have been clearly spelled out in the union contract, INCLUDING grounds for dismissal.  And apparently it wasn’t.  What a shame, and what an unnecessary thing to put everyone through.

    

   John

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3. Richard Allen Roe says

   February 13, 2011 at 3:31 pm

   This is similar to the approach I use. “Google Alerts” feed
   me choral articles from the mainstream media (and sometimes
   individual blogs), which I then store on my hd, and submit to
   ChoralNet at the rate of 3 – 5 per day.

   If you find an interesting tweet you would like to put in the
   ChoralNet News, send it to me or Allen Simon, who monitors the news
   submissions.

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