UAZipster0305 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Posted March 7, 2017 http://www.ohio.com/news/local/indian-researcher-slams-university-of-akron-1.751631 How is this even news? A headline and story for this, are you kidding me? Maybe if it was included as a few sentences in the original article (cited below), fine. The guy who is quoted is not even a relevant administrator. Just an early-career UM alum who looks at the rankings and sees a problem. The ABJ might as well be reporting on what people write in opinionated blog posts. Always an agenda. A perfect example of why journalism in this country has been dead for 15 years. http://www.ohio.com/news/local/university-of-mumbai-eyes-akron-for-potential-u-s-campus-1.750745 Quote
Balsy Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 8 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said: http://www.ohio.com/news/local/indian-researcher-slams-university-of-akron-1.751631 How is this even news? A headline and story for this, are you kidding me? Maybe if it was included as a few sentences in the original article (cited below), fine. The guy who is quoted is not even a relevant administrator. Just an early-career UM alum who looks at the rankings and sees a problem. The ABJ might as well be reporting on what people write in opinionated blog posts. Always an agenda. A perfect example of why journalism in this country has been dead for 15 years. http://www.ohio.com/news/local/university-of-mumbai-eyes-akron-for-potential-u-s-campus-1.750745 I disagree. This is what happens when real researchers get chased off from your university because of moronic, imbesilic administrations. There's a number of researchers I personally know who left UA for better positions (who would've wanted to stay) because of the drastic cuts to their departments spearheaded the Scarborough administration. One of which was working on dinosaur feather coloration, which is groundbreaking in paleontology, ornithology and paleobiology. You never knew that did you? The true shame is that the ABJ didn't report on the those types of losses sooner. Or how the biology department at UA was essentially gutted. Quote
skip-zip Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 20 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said: Always an agenda. A perfect example of why journalism in this country has been dead for 15 years. Agenda? Nooooo. And all you had to do was watch about a minute of TV or read the title and the first few lines of a print piece during the 2016 election season to see that it's only getting worse. Quote
UAZipster0305 Posted March 8, 2017 Author Report Posted March 8, 2017 16 hours ago, Balsy said: I disagree. This is what happens when real researchers get chased off from your university because of moronic, imbesilic administrations. There's a number of researchers I personally know who left UA for better positions (who would've wanted to stay) because of the drastic cuts to their departments spearheaded the Scarborough administration. One of which was working on dinosaur feather coloration, which is groundbreaking in paleontology, ornithology and paleobiology. You never knew that did you? The true shame is that the ABJ didn't report on the those types of losses sooner. Or how the biology department at UA was essentially gutted. You disagree based on what? UA has never been held in high esteem as an overall institution by major rankings. This would not be any different had certain faculty remained in spite of the Scar. And its irrelevant here because the ABJ was reporting on one person's opinion that was ill-formed and has no impact on a UA-UM relationship; therefore, it's not news-worthy. My point of this being an example of bottom-barrel journalism remains. Yes, the ABJ should have reported on the issues you mention. You didn't need to be condescending about it. Quote
Hilltopper Posted March 8, 2017 Report Posted March 8, 2017 Everybody knows what color dinosaurs are. Quote
Balsy Posted March 9, 2017 Report Posted March 9, 2017 17 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said: You disagree based on what? UA has never been held in high esteem as an overall institution by major rankings. This would not be any different had certain faculty remained in spite of the Scar. And its irrelevant here because the ABJ was reporting on one person's opinion that was ill-formed and has no impact on a UA-UM relationship; therefore, it's not news-worthy. My point of this being an example of bottom-barrel journalism remains. Yes, the ABJ should have reported on the issues you mention. You didn't need to be condescending about it. Fair point. I didn't mean to be condescending. 1 Quote
Balsy Posted March 9, 2017 Report Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) 15 hours ago, Hilltopper said: Everybody knows what color dinosaurs are. Ironically For Theropods you are not far off: Edited March 9, 2017 by Balsy Quote
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