Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

My school is dying II

  • UW's getting budget cuts between 26% and 31%. That's apparently the worst any school has had since WWII.
  • The long term effect on the school (especially the humanities) will probably be catastrophic.
  • They're cutting people right now. Including graduate TA's.
  • They're trying to pass a movement so that tenured faculty can get fired.
  • I just got a raise.

My school is dying.

UW to make 1000 cuts by the end of April.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Dow Closes Lower than Yesterday

Fear. Pain. Horror. (The kind GW invested in)

Seriously, that would be more informative than things like

Dow Falls Below 6,800; Lowest Close Since '97.

I mean, come on, was '97 so bad? Those were the golden Clinton years. Just a couple days ago we heard,

Dow Hits 12-Year Low; Bank Stocks Pounded.

Clearly scarier now that we're worse off than a couple days ago.

What would be your headline?