School can't locate Churchill's thesis: UI officials not sure master's paper was required

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 2/23/05 | Berny Morson

[Polyxene]

HEY! I have a bachelor's degree! Can I be a tenured professor, too????

[Real Cynic No More]

I seem to remember 30 semester hours as the basic requirement, 6 additional if no thesis, but I didn't get my master's, so my recollection may not be correct. 36 hours would be logistically do-able. I did not find the graduate level electives I took towards my BS to be any more difficult than the under grad courses required for my major.

[vetvetdoug]

I think you give a hamster a cigarette and pump his lungs, I learned that at Oak Ridge.

[shubi]

" think I ate at a McDonalds there once. Maybe I have a degree from that university. I hope it's a PhD"

You have a Master's of Macs, which confers the right to eat fatty non-PC food.

[krb]

They are legit engineers (though not P.E.'s).

NC State came up with a way to factory more people through the program by elminiting the need for a thesis or project (thus adding two classes), and then letting you count up to 4 of your undergrad classes twice (once for the BSE and once for the MSEE) so in the end, all it takes is two relatively light semesters of three classes each for the master's.

[SaveTheChief]

2. Do the same for University of Illinois graduates.

HEY HEY HEY!

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an excellent school. The College of Engineering alone is one of the best in the nation, as many technologies we use every day were pioneered there. There are people of every race, creed, religion, and culture who attend that University, each leaving with values they have learned through their experiences with friends, instructors, church and family. Like all large universities, these values held by graduating students vary from person to person.

Judging all UI or CU grads on the basis of one raving lunatic with poor values and hatred for America is like judging all Congressmen on the records of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

Or is judging people by stereotype in favor of one's individual merit the way you do business?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Sounds like you chose wisely. I want to begin my PhD in Jan. if I can get my business off the ground within the next few months but that will dictate everything. what is your PhD in and how long did you take to earn it?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Yeah, I saw that too and wondered.

[ken21]

this is sarcasm?

thanks.

[vaudine]

A one year's masters and no thesis--how very super elite.

His whole teaching history is a joke--a continuing joke that started in Sangamon when he designed his own degree.

Gotta love modern academia!

vaudine

[libstripper]

Thank you.

[rhetorica]

My Ph.D. is in communication studies. It took me 15 months to do my M.A. and 3 and 1/2 years of classwork and three years working on the dissertation to finish the Ph.D. (The dissertation took so long because I was working full-time while I was writing).

It was worth it even though I'm no longer teaching full-time. Given the consulting I do, I get to teach every day--it's just not in a classroom. I also get to use what I've learned about human communication to try to do some good rather than simply writing in academic journals (that has a place, but it just wasn't for me).

What do you want to get your degree in?

[Muleteam1]

Oh well. I suppose it is what you do with whatever education you are able to get that really counts. A few minutes ago my good friend just left my house. This man never had the opportunity to even get a first grade education as his family were migrant workers. He neither reads or writes Spanish or English (he is Hispanic) yet he became a Public Works Supervisor in this small west Texas town. In retirement he makes about three, possibly four, times the average income in this small town. He is a smart fellow who would only been slowed by an education during his working career.

Muleteam1

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

What do you want to get your degree in?

I am leaning towards business organizational mgt. simply because my BA and MBA are in Business. The other one I thought of was something theologically based because the PhD would be for personal reasons only and would have little bearing on my work.

[gbtheshark]

This afternoon on KHOW radio, where the afternoon team consisting of two lawyers (one a lefty, one a righty) have been hounding this Indian wannabe, they played a tape of Churchill telling a group of freaks in some lecture how they should all be ashamed because it took an Arab to do what they (the students) should all be doing (9/11)...then one bearded maggot stands up and says, "Well what should I do, and how do I do it and fly under the radar"...he tells him how to do it, where to do it (Wall St), how to dress etc...

This nimrod is trying to say he doesn't promote violence against the country...PLEASE, there it is on tape..

[MonroeDNA]

well spoken.

[libstripper]

If this is true, it only shows the Harvard faculty is more bigoted, dishonest, intellectually bankrupt, and morally depraved than I originally gave them credit for. After all, it's a lot like a union that's involved in a legitimate labor dispute with an employer over working conditions claiming that's not really the issue, but their employer's failure to join the Klan and participate in the most recent lunching and burning of a black is what's REALLY BAD about the employer.

[rhetorica]

Good luck to you. The opportunity, like most everything else, is what you make of it. I'm grateful for mine--it is quite a luxury and a gift to be able to learn about something that truly interests you!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Thanks for your support.