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Only if you may be a conservative, it appears. As we all know, an effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree at George Fox University recently. Effigies in Political Expression have been used since America was founded. Our Founders wrapped an effigy of King George in a Union Jack and burned it in the late 1700’s. Effigies of President Bush have been hung, paraded across country and even burned, not only in America, but also around the world. An effigy of an American soldier was set on fire in Portland during an anti-war protest in March 2007...

Sabbaticals for Dummies by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 16, 2008 Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon Univrsity English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor. Although Battistella was obviously in a whimsical frame of mind when he constructed the “to do” list, the suggestions look all too credible to some of us on the higher education beat. Some of us always thought that the answer...