March 02, 2017
Two Harvard Law school administrators are accused of embezzling a reported $110,000 from a fund intended to support students with disabilities. Sex toys, iPads and iPods are amongst some of the items they are accused of purchasing with the money.
Source: RT News
The purchases allegedly made by Meg DeMarco, 33, and Darris Saylors, 32, came to light after a new administrator took over their role in November 2013, and noticed some discrepancies in the accounts, reported WBZ. An investigation into some of the purchases led to the electronics being traced by Apple to the homes of the two women and several of their friends.
“It was big job and I made mistakes.” DeMarco told WBZ. “I never intended to harm the university and that I am very sorry and will do everything in my power to rectify the situation.” DeMarco is scheduled to be arraigned on on April 5.
Saylors was arraigned on Wednesday when she was charged with two counts of larceny over $250, two counts of false entry into corporate books, uttering a false writing and forgery of a document in connection with an alleged theft from Harvard Law School, according to a statement from The Middlesex District Attorney.
The total amount of funds allegedly syphoned by Saylors is estimated at $47,793.
DeMarco allegedly deposited school money directly into her bank account to spend, while Saylors is accused of using the Dean of Students purchasing cards to buy items online at sites including Amazon. The purchases, including DVDs, jewelry, laptops and X-rated items were then listed in school documents as items including “textbooks for disabilities accommodations.”Harvard Law School released a statement to WBZ saying: “As a result of this matter the Law school implemented additional layers of controls governing the use of its credit accounts and purchasing protocols.”
February 17, 2017
Walter Block, an American Austrian School Economist and Anarcho-capitalist political theorist gives the argument for the privatization of all things.
Source: Misesmedia, Youtube
He currently holds the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the J. A. Butt School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He is best known for his 1976 book Defending the Undefendable.
February 17, 2017
Michael Huemer focuses on the ideas of political rationality and political ignorance. Huemer focuses on the scope and nature of what we know, morality and truth. He is an expert at structuring logical arguments the premises of which are easy to go along with, which makes it annoying if you don't agree with his conclusions. We'll let you decide. In this TEDxMileHigh Talk, he details the irrationality of politics.
Source: TEDx Talks, Youtube
Michael Huemer (born 27 December 1969) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has defended ethical intuitionism, direct realism, libertarianism and philosophical anarchism.
A HIGHLY RECOMMENDED WATCH.
January 01, 2020
The University of Cincinnati is sponsoring a workshop on “white fragility” and “white tears” this semester.
Source: Peter Hasson, The Daily Caller
The workshop, entitled “White Fragility, White Tears, and White Allies: Learning to manage emotion in difficult conversations about race and racism,” is one of 21 “inclusive excellence workshops” sponsored by the university throughout the year. The one-and-a-half hour workshop will take place April 3rd and will be lead by Ainsley Lambert, a PhD student who teaches in the university’s sociology department.
The university website doesn’t elaborate on the workshop’s content and the university did not return a request for comment by press time.
“White fragility,” as defined by a paper in the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, “is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.” A definition of “white tears” is not readily available.