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It really just seems too early to judge the Obama administration. There are some similarities between the early terms of both Obama and Reagan; mainly a bad economy and lots of criticism for a president who comes into office after it's already bad and, strangely enough, Paul Volcker as part of both administrations. Both resorted to deficit spending as the hope for turning the economy around. Honestly, it will take a while for economic recovery to take hold; the problem is, nobody knows how long. I'd like for Obama to a more optimistic tone in his speeches; I still think economics is tied to a mass psychology of sorts, but recent politicians have found something to like in talking about how bad things are. Inevitably, things will get better; and there's something to be said for positive talk.

I wondered the same thing; however, I've concluded it's just a cliche QB's and coaches use for playing quarterback, as in "I'm glad to be back under center again instead of trying to play slot receiver". I'm also thinking it may refer to actually playing quarterback, instead of being backup quarterback Maybe we should ask quoner.

Dang, she started her career in Wichita Falls? Hey, I'm from Wichita falls, and I think I'm only being fair to say that just based on her looks she deserved better than to be relegated to life in that fair city. Larry McMurtry, the famous author and bookseller, is originally from Archer City, just outside of Wichita Falls (yes, he was a North Texas graduate), and lived there until just a couple of years ago. The reason he gave for moving to Phoenix from there? He just wanted to be able to go out to a restaurant and see pretty women while he ate.

Not to be excessively generous to Vito, but I thought he was being a little rosy in writing "UNT must convince the skeptics in its fan base that there is a reason to believe in the Mean Green again. " I think the only way to convince the skeptics is to start winning; early enough and often enough that any objective observer could compare 2009 to 2008 and say "Yep, things are definitely heading in the right direction". I think early enough would include one of the ooc games before starting conference play; often enough, at least 2 wins by midseason and 4 for the season; plus, being competitive in all but 2 or 3 games would be well received. Five wins would silence most but the harshest critics in the following offseason.

Thanks for informing us! Dwayne Taylor

You're golden.

Maybe she's talking "hollywood" squares.

What about parachutes? I don't believe in the golden ones for CEO's of failed and bailed out organizations.

My mother, a lifelong Democrat, used to listen to him every day at lunch. Some said that Paul Harvey was an out-of-touch conservative, but I think he just said what he believed. One of my brothers-in-law was a pilot for then TWA. One of the flight attendants came to him before a flight and said, "You're not going to believe who we have in first class, Paul Harvey and Muhammed Ali". Charlie went into first class, where Paul grabbed his arm, pointed at Ali, and said, "Can you believe it, that's Muhammed Ali, right here!".

Well, at least he wasn't a chemistry graduate student and making that statement.

Alright, all you 20 and 30 somethings, eat your heart out over this one; my wife and I are going to see this guy in concert tomorrow night at the Murchison Performing Arts Center...how would y'all like to have had that little saxophone riff running around in your head all weeK? Dave Brubeck, Take 5

If he's clean and sober now, and willing to come here as a walk on, maybe we could use him to send in the "wrong signals" to opposing defenses.

Of course, you'll characterize my OP however you want, and always do. My statement was that "I'm not saying Dodge was entirely responsible for losing all our previous assistant coaches and that experience gap; someone here mentioned it was strongly recommended to him that he not retain any of them". Since Dodge did hire Leftwich WITH college level coaching experience AT UNT (among other schools, but NOT from Dickey's staff, I think there's some possibility that it's true. My major points, and you didn't seem to read well enough to get it, were that (1.) that it was circumstances other than the defensive players who were here at the time that Dodge arrived, SUCH AS THE DEPARTURE OF THE EXPERIENCED COACHES ALREADY HERE (maybe you can read it now) responsible for the defensive play for Dodge's first two seasons, and (2.) THINGS SEEM TO BE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN TERMS OF THE DEFENSIVE COACHES WE HAVE NOW (again, the all caps are me trying to help you read, and you seemed to agree with the basic premise there. Really Lonnie, I put the thread up for the benefit of persons other than yourself, the players on the defensive side who have needed better coaching in the last couple of years, and now seem like they'll get that coaching they need.

You are correct Flyer! I owe you one; it may be the home football opener before you can collect. By the way, I think Buckley's idea was about as good as any that I've heard to date, although plenty of Democrats and Republicans will disagree. I certainly enjoyed meeting you and UNT90 the other night before the UALR game.

It sounds like a bad idea to me, but someone told me when I was in the 82nd Airborne Division for a while (this was in the day when the locals called us the Jumpin' Junkies), that some guys were getting high before parachuting. I never would have thought of that; I was already about 1200 feet high.

I hate to hear it; from what I've experienced, death is almost a blessing in the case of alzheimer's. For what it's worth, here's a link that I thought was cool; I saw it this morning, but now can't link throught to it; some of you may be able to; it uses the "mean green" term to talk about a hybrid high performance concept car. "Mean Green" used to refer to hybrid vehicle.

Thanks. By the way, the price he mentioned to me for that 3 hour course was about $1800, tuition and fees; at UNT, it would have been about $900. Either way, it's no small amount of money, not to mention everything else involved.

Since the group favoring the petition to overturn the stadium election have been quoted as saying something to the effect that "maybe elections could be made part of the registration process" (and rebutted by UNTFlyer due to said elections being run by the SGA rather than the school), I thought I should mention something that happened to a coworker: He signed up for a course at UT-Dallas this semester. No teacher showed up for the first class meeting. When it didn't appear the teacher would show for the second meeting; those in attendance selected my coworker to inquire at the Departmental offices. The chair looked at the class schedule and realized the teacher listed for the course was not really on the payroll for the semester (it was an adjunct, who, ironically, is full time faculty at UNT, and had been moonlighting at UTD). The 3rd class wasn't held because there had been an ice storm and there were fears of refreezing causing traffic hazards for evening class students. They did get a teacher, but now they're staying another 20-30 minutes late each class; trying to catch up I guess. A memorable quote from the eventual teacher was "I've taught this class before, but never in English". At some point before an actual class was held with an instructor present, the deadline for getting any refund, or withdrawing with a "w" was past. I offered this information in OldGuyStudents "recourse for a crappy class" topic, but thought it was important to emphasize how important it is for students to be on top of things during registration, especially when universities themselves may not be. I mentioned on another topic about the subprime mortgage mess about the mess of paperwork one is supposed to be responsible for at closing; maybe we should think of class registration as something with the lasting importance of a closing, except that you may do it 8 or more times, and still be struggling to get it right no matter how experienced at work, education, or bureaucracy that you think you might be. I promise you kids, you should concentrate all your thoughts on the classes for which you are registering, how they fit your degree plan, and the reputation of those teaching them. And if the teacher is missing, you need to get with the administration early on, since deadlines for refunds, late registration, and withdrawal with a "w" come up very early in the semester!

Does it just seem to me that they're deceptive, or is just the masks they wear?

I don't know any who have qualified; the good news is, I don't know any designated as "nonqualifiers". There might be a grey area those black and white critters could fit in. Anything with a "grey area" might have to be moved out of this politically active forum.

I've seen raccoons who actually had useful skills...ok, they used them to steal stuff, but hey!

I'm just wondering how many here can identify the source of the following quote. The first one who does and sees me at a UNT sports event, I'll buy them something to eat or drink. Social critics are despondent over the failure absolutely to fix blame on somebody for the terrible subprime-mortgage phenomenon. There's the temptation to blame a phenomenon judged to be malicious, or at best thoughtless, on an institutional feature of the free-market system. Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington cites a pressing need for regulation, the invisible hand of the marketplace having failed us. It is useful to remind ourselves that the market does not pose as, or at least ought not to pose as, an executor of justice. If John and Jim, apparently equally endowed and equally motivated, launch identical business enterprises and John succeeds while Jim fails, one can't look to the market to weigh the two entrepreneurs by meritocratic standards. The market can't judge what role sheer luck played in the different outcomes. Free-market theory intervenes only to say that Jim, the loser, should himself bear the costs of failure. As opposed to what? Well, as opposed to taxing John from his earnings sufficiently to compensate Jim for his failure. The market seeks simply to individuate the winner and the loser. Interventionists are moved by a desire to temper the judgments of the marketplace, and the way to do this is: by regulation. Regulation in some form or other is almost everywhere licensed and, generally, applauded. If competitors run taxi companies, regulation denies to any one of them an exclusive franchise: Do not seek to eliminate the competition. And there is regulation built into progressive taxation: The winner climbs into a higher tax bracket, and is thus burdened to the advantage (in the short term) of the competitor. The mortgage crisis came on because our free society did not think to intervene at a juncture where it could have limited the effects of cosmic thoughtlessness and insouciant greed. So that the question now arises: How does society single out the gross violators, meting out punishment to those who deserve it without harming others? Is it possible to identify the guilty parties? This family desires a house, but cannot not afford a mortgage based on conventional factors. A friendly mortgage broker emerges. He will arrange for them to get a mortgage at an easygoing rate. The lender will agree to this because, immediately on writing the mortgage, he will sell his interest in this family and their house to yet another party, who bundles it with similar mortgages and sells slices of the package to various investors. And so a great pool of mortgages accumulates, banked away in every corner of the financial house, a bit of everybody's portfolio who has an interest in the financial order. What the market would do, facing that situation, is to impose punishment on the disorderly mortgage brokers and lenders. But where are they? They are almost universally out of sight. They didn't linger over the worthless mortgages; they passed them on to buyers who have been waking up during the past six months bereft of assets they thought they had. If we could start from scratch, we might have managed a federal regulation that forbade giving mortgages to people without an adequate credit history. But we cannot do that in retrospect, so we are in mid-quandary, with foreclosures lowering the values of all houses, not just the ones with risky mortgages. Is there a market for, say, 30 million American homes? The politics of the matter are at least this clear. The federal government being the only agent that can possibly intervene, it needs to do so, by forbidding the liquidation of mortgages until the disparity between true value and hypothetical value is pounded away by time and inflation and a revitalization of the functions of the marketplace. Here's a hint: The above was written in early January, 2008, while it's writer was still alive.

That all sounds good 1999, except for the "dean's office" part; since the OP calls for "grader, then to the instructor, then to the department", wouldn't he go to the department chair before the dean?

Well, that's a tough choice to make; I do know that teaching assistants (at least) have been replaced at UNT, but don't know whether it was during the semester. That would involve getting someone else to take over the class for the remainder of the semester; since the teacher is an adjunct, it seems like there might be a shortage of teachers for that subject at this time. Something similar happened to a coworker taking a course at UT-Dallas this semester. He signed up for a course where no teacher showed up for the first class meeting. When it didn't appear the teacher would show for the second meeting; those in attendance selected my coworker to inquire at the Departmental offices. The chair looked at the class schedule and realized the teacher listed for the course was not really on the payroll for the semester (it was an adjunct, who, ironically, is full time faculty at UNT, and had been moonlighting at UTD). The 3rd class wasn't held because there had been an ice storm and there were fears of refreezing causing traffic hazards for evening class students. They did get a teacher, but now they're staying another 20-30 minutes late each class; trying to catch up I guess. A memorable quote from the eventual teacher was "I've taught this class before, but never in English". These are reasons I'm not in favoring of holding class elections as part of class registration; students need to really be on the ball about what they're signing up for and with which teacher. Apparently, it's not always easy.

I'd recommend you complain to the Department Chair if you want something done before the end of the semester. It might be useful, if there's another class period she doesn't show up and the students do, to gauge the other students' opinions. Getting things done is easier when more complain, and would avoid you possibly being singled out as a lone troublemaker. Otherwise, about the only recourse is the evaluation, which doesn't do much for this semester.