Last week a good portion of the seawall fell to erosion; this morning a barge and tugboat were delivering — and delicately placing — boulders to hold off more erosion until spring, when a new seawall will be built.
Last week:
This morning:
Downtown with some DePaul students. Some of us will return this weekend for a vigil for Scott Olsen.
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed. And just because they are an unlimited resource, one that cannot be exhausted by consumerist waste, there is all the more reason to apply the conservationist remedy. If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.
– Susan Sontag, On Photography (180)
From The New Yorker: “The Promise”
An interactive portfolio about the civil-rights era, with contemporary portraits by Platon, historical photographs, interviews, and audio commentary by David Remnick, whose written introduction appears below the portfolio.
This piece, which combines audio, visual, and textual components of meaning-making, is my inspiration for a “multimodal photo essay” assignment I’m working on for my First Year Writing courses at DePaul.
Also:
I have recently queried colleagues at the American Library Association and academic librarians at two universities with this question: is there any evidence or data that suggests that there is more academic plagiarism now than there was, say, 15, 40, or 110 years ago?
Anecdotally, of course, plagiarism is one of the guaranteed fear inducers of contemporary academic culture. Due in large part to corporations such as turnitin.com—whose marketing strategy seems to be that they can both diagnose the disease and provide the cure—the culture of fear, anxiety, and mistrust toward students is palpable.
At any rate, I have been unable to locate data or evidence that suggests there is more academic plagiarism currently than there was, say, 15, 40, or 110 years ago. If you know of any, could you send me a citation? mmoore46@depaul.edu.
Thanks!
Update:
An excellent source, with data — Student dishonesty and its control in college. William Bowers 1964 Columbia University, Bureau of Applied Social Research. New York, NY.
An excellent followup to Bowers: Donald L. McCabe and Linda Klebe Trevino: “Faculty responses to academic dishonesty: The influence of student honor codes.” Research in Higher Education (1993) Volume: 34, Issue: 5, Pages: 647-658.
Waiting For Her At The Garden
Standing here for so long now my boots
have cut their impression into the ground.
I’ve had no answer from her at this gate
knocking and waiting and pacing while spring
overflows the garden; a crimson apricot blossom
reaches over the wall to me.
The Old Fisherman
Last night he anchored and slept
near the west mountain cliffs.
At dawn he draws water from Xiang River
and cooks over a bamboo fire.
As the fog lifts he guides his boat back into the water
until out of sight, the only sound his oars
dipping into the clear, cool river.
Looking back, seeing his camp and the aimless clouds
wandering along, one by one.
Calligraphy of original poems by Zongyuan Liu (773-819) on rice paper
by Rong Shang. Translated by Yilin Dai and Michael Moore
in Pank: New Writing & Art, 2(2008).
