by snarly | May 30, 2017 | Academic apologies
This past Sunday’s New York Times has a shudder-inducing story about a teacher at Phillips Academy who inappropriately romanced one of his students. Later, the teacher, Frederic Lyman, moved to Choate Rosemary Hall, where he was one of 12 former teachers found...
by snarly | May 21, 2017 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies
You may or may not remember Happy Days, a relic from a long-ago time before Ron Howard was a big-macher director and Scott Baio was an intolerance-spewing sexist bigot. It was also a time before Henry Winkler was a best-selling children’s book author and/or...
by snarly | May 1, 2017 | Political Apologies
Go, Greybull Standard! The small-town paper’s lead paragraph (or “lede,” as we journos ostentatiously and wrongheadedly spell it) recently came out swinging in a story about some eyebrow-raising words from a state senator: Last Thursday, April 20,...
by snarly | Apr 21, 2017 | Musical Apologies, Youth apologizes
I haven’t yet seen this highly regarded musical. It’s apparently about being...
by snarly | Apr 20, 2017 | Academic apologies
Inside Higher Education has an excellent account of a horrible decision made by an academic journal…and the journal’s attempt to make things right. Read the whole tale there. The (sorta?) short version: Last year, an assistant professor at Columbia’s...