Each year, I go home to Ohio at Christmas to spend time with the family. And each year, my mom sends me back to Texas with a bunch of stuff from my childhood she wants out of her house.This year, she wandered up with another box, but this one was just filled with stacks and stacks of paper. At…
Several college radio stations in Indiana are doing a simulcast this weekend and invited alumni to come do shows…
Back at Ball State, I had a professor who proudly declared he would fail anyone who used the term “tragic” in a news script. We called him Professor Carlin because he looked somewhat like George Carlin.If you have to tell people something is tragic, he explained, it wasn’t really tragic. The tragic-itude (It’s possible he did…
This week, the li’l munchkins of TCU are moving into their dorms. TCU has taken steps to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. They’ll isolate students who test positive and set them up with care coordinators to set up virtual classwork. And students are not moving in like they would in a normal year. To prevent…
Fellow reporters and academics and a bunch of people I didn’t verify have been complaining on Twitter that they had lost the ability to tweet.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall that I tweet for work, and I don’t especially care how many followers I have. Maybe I don’t have a check mark next to my name on Twitter…
Tonight, Fort Worth ISD will host a city-wide graduation celebration for the class of 2020. As a man who graduated in the elite top 75 percent of his high school class, I can understand the importance of a celebration like this.The Fort Worth superintendent explained that kids can benefit from a hootenanny [it’s possible he did not…