Penn State Nittany Lions

I want Jerry Sandusky (the rapist) to take complete responsibility for the whole NCAA scandal. Joe Paterno is a legend, and also my hero, in terms of college football. His accomplishments are phenomenal, and that's an understatement.

1. 400+ wins.
2. 1 national title.
3. 46 seasons as Penn State head coach. (he's 84-years-old right now, which means he started when he was about 38-years-old.).
4. He's been part of the Penn State football team. (as an assistant or something since he was about 20-years-old.).

This news has been all over the TV on not just ESPN stations, but also on news stations like CNN, FOX NEWS, etc. Penn State students went on a rant on 11/9/11.  They even tipped over a car or two in their rant throughout the campus streets.

Joe Paterno.
Great guy.
Great coach.
Unfortunate person.

MACON SMITH

The difficult task of understanding and adopting the theoretical frame of Critical Geography has become even more challenging due to the globalized spaces that people inhabit, spaces characterized by current trends toward measurement, assessment, and standardization—all of which normalize a certain way of conceiving and perceiving.

Salish

          The Coast Salish people of British Columbia and Washington State inhabit a borderlands region where they have negotiated the sometimes contrasting policies of two empires. Families belong to more than one village and must travel across the Canada–USA border frequently for ceremonies and events that bind the Coast Salish world together. Both British and American colonialism required categorising, dividing, and confining Aboriginal people. Residential schools were the ultimate tools for removing Indigenous peoples from the land as they were designed to eradicate the memory of languages and place‐based epistemologies containing the Indigenous meanings of time and reality. This article focuses on some contrasting educational policies and contexts across the Canada–USA border and shows some strategies Coast Salish people have used for resisting assimilation and returning to their own understandings of place and identity. Some of the community strategies for resisting assimilation have included reclaiming government boarding schools as a way to escape the racism of integrated public schools. Coast Salish efforts at decolonising education have concentrated on the maintenance of cultural boundaries, challenging neoliberal assumptions about history while defending treaties and land claims.

Campus Transportation: 1900s to present

     Transportation has been a huge benefit to the United States of America.  Transportation has been around since the beginning of time, starting with walking/running, and then over time, vehicles were invented and used.  When the 1990s came around, more cars used much gas (and continues to use much gas).  Those fumes are hurting the ozone layer as well as the environment around us.  As capable humans, there is a necessity to find alternate ways of transportation, without hurting or putting the environment into any harm whatsoever.

10/26/11 is Campus Sustainability Day!

Heard NCSU got $14 million to research more about biofuels.  Can't we grow enough corn to make our own?

Part 2: 1491

The early "traders and "explorers" were really just pirates with written permission from  (from European governments) to raid the New World countries.  They weren't interested in helping the natives they subdued; they didn't plan on leaving them alive.  As for spreading disease, that stilll happens in this century.  Scientists studying with remote tribes have brought sickness and disease to natives who had no immunities.

Part 1: 1491

Seems like the ego of the western scientific community is more important than the scientific discovery.  Aren't we wupposed to applaud new findings?  Don't we want to find a way to use these microbes and the "magic soil" to help others enrich their environment?  It just seems to me that some of the scientists have placed being correct over everything else.  Little bit of jealousy too.