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The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

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My first inkling that something had gone seriously hay-wire in higher education came just after the turn of the millennium, when I was asked to take over the job of advisor to the campus radio station. I had spent the previous five years as a full-time journalism instructor and advisor to the student newspaper at Keene State College in New Hampshire, but I knew very little about radio. Nevertheless, it seemed like an interesting challenge and many of my colleagues from the College Media Advisors, who advised both newspapers and radio stations, said they would help me out. After all, how difficult could it be?

I met with the students who ran the radio station at their weekly meeting and we introduced ourselves. They seemed to be a good group of students interested in music and I explained that I would be learning on the job from them. We seemed to get along fine. But when I tuned in the radio station on my car radio while driving home from work, I was so shocked by what I heard that I had to pull over to listen. It wasn’t just the crude lyrics of the songs I found offensive but the comments from the disc jockeys, who attacked fellow students and teachers by name, discussed the physical attributes of female students’ anatomies, and described their latest sexual and alcoholic adventures in detail. It was like three dozen young Howard Sterns competing to be the most offensive.

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RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
This book constitutes the seventh official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the 7th Robot World Cup Soccer and Rescue Competition and Conferences held in Padua, Italy, in July 2003.

The 39 revised full papers and 35 revised poster papers presented together with an overview and roadmap for the...

Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development - Second Edition
Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development - Second Edition

Develop production-ready applications for iOS and Android using Xamarin

About This Book

  • Write native iOS and Android applications with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android respectively
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Fiberglass Boat Repairs Illustrated
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Step-by-step color photo guidance for repairing and renewing fiberglass boats

If you don't have the experience of working with fiberglass, any repairs to your boat must be done by high-cost professionals or left undone. This entry-level guide uses full-color, step-by-step photo sequences and line drawings to present you...


TSP: Leading a Development Team (The SEI Series in Software Engineering)
TSP: Leading a Development Team (The SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Leaders of software-development projects face many challenges. First, you must produce a quality product on schedule and on budget. Second, you must foster and encourage a cohesive, motivated, and smoothly operating team. And third, you must maintain a clear and consistent focus on short- and long-term goals, while exemplifying quality...

Forecasting With The Theta Method: Theory and Applications
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The first book to be published on the Theta method, outlining under what conditions the method outperforms other forecasting methods

This book is the first to detail the Theta method of forecasting – one of the most difficult-to-beat forecasting benchmarks, which topped the biggest forecasting...

C++17 Standard Library Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Functions
C++17 Standard Library Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Functions
This quick reference is a condensed guide to the essential data structures, algorithms, and functions provided by the C++17 Standard Library. It does not explain the C++ language or syntax, but is accessible to anyone with basic C++ knowledge or programming experience. Even the most experienced C++ programmer will learn a thing or two...
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