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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 16, 2024 18:30:54 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 16, 2024 10:08:20 GMT -5
It's hard to keep up interest when you post games upcoming but not how the team is developing. Knowing the program all too well, we lost a lot, but as with G'town we also have a number of great players with lots of hope, I do not know if this is coach Dave wanting to keep the lid on spring games as they are for development, but all we have is two ties with two more games having been played with nothing. Anybody interested in WSOC know anything? We just played Maryland. That would be a good barometer as to how we are coming along in game 4. Any reports would be nice. Yeah, I wish there was a bit more priority placed on communicating how the spring is going. Brian does it to some extent with his emails, but I don't think there's any equivalent on the WoSo side.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 16, 2024 10:05:29 GMT -5
. I would think that marginal hiring of Profs, i.e., lets hire 3 history and 3 compsci vs 3/3 phil/theo is well within the President's chain of command. NB these are new hires generally, not new positions or new tenure lines. The resourcing (budgeting, facilities, etc.) process through which both ordinary and non-ordinary faculty positions are allocated has a significant number of inputs, including endowments/restricted funds, required course offerings (need X people to teach Y courses), historical enrollment in various courses and programs, faculty contracts that are subject to both individual and shared governance negotiation (i.e., you can't just nuke all of a tenured faculty's electives and make them teach surveys/requirements instead), etc. etc. It's not just a matter of the president/provost decided they're going to stop hiring Classics faculty and hire a bunch of computer scientists instead.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 15, 2024 9:58:33 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 15, 2024 9:56:22 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 14, 2024 14:39:32 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 13, 2024 9:53:16 GMT -5
Oh....and here's one thing I'm very confused about and have an extremely difficult time explaining to the people I interview for G'town. I enrolled in the early 90s (before the internet) and for the most part picked G'town out of a book. I thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was from one of the rectangular states in the west and got into some pretty good schools (Penn, Northwestern, UVA, Cornell, and G'town), and G'town was far more selective than any of those schools. Acceptance rates at Penn and Northwestern were almost 40%. What???!!!! Now they're super competitive and their acceptance rate is far below that of G'town. What's happened? How did this happen? What's going on? How do I explain this? Short answer: The Common Application. Many schools saw their admit rates plummet because it became far easier to apply to multiple schools - in some cases, just check one more box and pay one more fee. Georgetown (in)famously does not use the Common App. Longer answer: Every school's trajectory is unique. To understand Penn, this is a great resource: archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/images-in-flux/part-1/To understand Northwestern: northbynorthwestern.com/from-back-then-to-top-10/Both of those schools saw reducing their admission rates as being a key brand-building activity, and there are many levers schools can pull to achieve this. Even just fiddling with the parameters of whom you send direct mail to based on PSAT scores can case multi-percentage point swings.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 11, 2024 21:43:54 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 10, 2024 18:57:39 GMT -5
Don't want to stray too far from the science discussion but briefly re the whole Soviet Studies thing: There is a whole literature about this: topic has its own wikipedia entry!--excerpt below: I get that there is a debate about this, but most people feel this a was a substantial miss. In 1983, Princeton University professor Stephen Cohen described the Soviet system as remarkably stable. The Central Intelligence Agency also over-estimated the internal stability of the Soviet Union and did not anticipate its rapid dissolution. Former Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner in 1991 wrote in the US Journal Foreign Affairs, "We should not gloss over the enormity of this failure to forecast the magnitude of the Soviet crisis . . . Yet I never heard a suggestion from the CIA, or the intelligence arms of the departments of Defense or State, that numerous Soviets recognized a growing, systemic economic problem."[ Yes, you are correct that I am not a strategic or Russian Studies professional; however, I have some acquaintance with the subject, having also studied abroad in the Soviet Union and have done business in the region over the years, speak Russian etc. Cohen was a Kremlin apologist to his dying days - he thought the Soviet system to be remarkably stable because he wanted it to be. But he's Indiana, Columbia, and Princeton's problem, not ours. Setting aside Stansfield Turner's various axes to grind against the CIA specifically and the IC more broadly, his comments in 1991 are pretty remarkable considering that he himself stated the following in May 1977 (where did he get these ideas if not from the CIA/IC/Soviet Studies? He was a surface warfare officer, not in intelligence): (Source: www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80M00165A001300130009-8.pdf)I was born in the Soviet Union and am a native speaker of Russian (as certified by Georgetown), so between that and my academic training, I can really do this all day
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 9, 2024 12:40:38 GMT -5
Second, the idea that Gtwn has made the right historical calls re deploying resources and developing academic programs in STEM broadly is kind of silly-nobody at Gtwn really thinks that, so I'm not sure why some here make believe that is the case. I guess this is directed toward me? You're going to have to be more specific - what historical calls? What academic programs in STEM should have been developed further and at whose expense? Let's be evidence-based here, in the finest traditions of the scientific method, rather than making sweeping general, unfalsifiable claims. Specifically, Rusky, the biggest miss in the social sciences in recent memory was the failure of the whole Soviet studies apparatus to anticipate the fall of the Soviet Union. I respect your subject matter knowledge in your field, but here you are treading onto my area of expertise. Many, many Georgetown people were closely tracking developments in the Soviet Union and publishing accurate analysis, both openly and in non-public fora. For a useful discussion of this, see Berkowitz, Bruce D. "U.S. Intelligence Estimates of the Soviet Collapse: Reality and Perception." International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 21: 237–250, 2008 (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/20080229.pdf). A close second is the misjudgment of China's rise. The traditional social science crowd that made these important misjudgments reign supreme at Gtwn. What is this "misjudgment of China's rise" of which you speak? Allow me to offer a quote: Just because politicians fail to take action on something does not mean that scholars were taken by surprise! The idea that Psychology is in Shambles is silly--The top places in the world have integrated Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience and do a lot of work on decision science(econ/pol/soc) and brain science generally--most of the work is quantitative and the grads from these programs tend to get jobs in the tech sector that a lot of Gtwn grads would love. Yes, that interdisciplinary field is often called Cognitive Science, and Georgetown has been one of the leading institutions in its development, starting with the creation of the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences back in the mid-90s, which was ahead of many more science-focused institutions. (https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA302646.pdf). As for psychology, "shambles" is not a descriptor I just chose off-hand - that is the verbatim language used by Jeffrey Lieberman, Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, back in 2015, to describe the state of the field. It's hotly debated of course, but that debate is anything but "silly."
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 9, 2024 11:32:46 GMT -5
Personally, I just want confirmation that the administration is actively thinking about this. I want to know that the admin understands the need to overhaul our sciences. Both for the profile of the school and also the broader undergraduate experience too. When you get a bunch of hard sciences and social sciences students in a room, really interesting conversations begin to happen. Particularly in the realm of venture and startups but also in interdisciplinary research, thinking, and problem solving. And I personally believe it is incredibly important for the University to start breaking into the technology / innovation world. We just don't get top science students and that is a loss for everyone -- it renders the Georgetown campus a stifling environment. I don't think that the mere lack of "top science students" renders a campus stifling. If that were true, then a place like Julliard or SCAD/RISD would be unbearable - no top science students to be found there! For that matter, depending on your definition of "top," most schools in the country would be deficient in that way. Certainly the standardized test scores and other attributes of Georgetown science majors are toward the very top of the national distribution. In any event, interdisciplinarity is good, and you're seeing increasing moves in that direction, whether it's the new-ish joint BSBGA between SFS and MSB, the new Joint Environment & Sustainability (JESP) B.S. Degree approved just this past December, the new College/McCourt bachelor's that allows one to merge science with public policy, etc. If it's "the realm of venture and startups" you're after, there's things going on there too. By way of examples, see, e.g., georgetownventures.org and eship.georgetown.edu/venture-lab/ and www.forbes.com/sites/heatherwishartsmith/2024/03/04/georgetowns-venture-in-the-capital-nurtures-tomorrows-innovators/Frankly, statistics is the joke version of pure math. Anything applied is generally a deviation or two below the rigor of pure academia. We need thinkers not just doers. I'll give you points for originality, man. Whenever people complain about the need for more STEM, it's always because they consider that to be more practical and productive and contributing to tangible value, as opposed to the "That's just your opinion, man" nature of the humanities. You are the very first person I've ever heard say that no, actually, applied STEM is *too* practical, and what we need instead is pure, abstract, theoretical science!
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 8, 2024 14:42:47 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 6, 2024 20:53:36 GMT -5
It felt so odd to be at a game at Shaw where it was cold, but the grass was green...
Entertaining contest. Included a Maryland player eating a straight red, but because this is spring soccer (even spring soccer with a fake 'Cup' competition), Maryland did not go down a man.
Hoyas has the wind in the second half and really dominated the run of play.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 6, 2024 10:33:38 GMT -5
I think Roger is ultimately right here...the question is how long she can drag things out until that point
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 4, 2024 22:05:42 GMT -5
That is unacceptable. Georgetown is a RESEARCH university. Dartmouth is an undergraduate college. I am tired of us hiding behind the "we are an undergraduate focused school" excuse to hide our utter lack of academic/research excellence, when schools that are even truer to that spirit, like dartmouth, kill us in research capacity. And meanwhile, we have probably 10,000 random (and non-research oriented) graduate degrees. Interesting for an "undergraduate focused" institution. At Georgetown, graduate students -- not undergraduates -- represent the numerical majority. For Georgetown to focus more on this area, it probably has to start at the provost level. None of the prior seven academic VP/provosts dating back to 1955 had any experience as an instructor or an academic in the sciences, though Groves has more research experience than his predecessors: Brian McGrath SJ: Political science Thomas Fitzgerald SJ: Theology Aloysius Kelley SJ: Theology J. Donald Freeze SJ: Philosophy Dorothy Brown: History James O'Donnell: History Robert Groves: Sociology The preponderance of graduate students is a more recent phenomenon, but it's not about research, but revenue. Would you consider statistics to be a science? Because Bob Groves (a Dartmouth grad, ironically) is a statistician and has an appointment in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. "He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the US National Academies."It's impossible to discuss the undergraduate vs. graduate balance without highlighting the hard headcount cap on traditional Main Campus undergraduates - not something that Dartmouth or most schools have to contend with. Dartmouth's endowment, by the way, is roughly twice that of Georgetown's, spread across far fewer students and in a far lower cost-of-living area. You can hire a lot more faculty on that. And if you want to close that gap... well, maybe revenue from graduate programs is not something at which to turn up one's nose.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 3, 2024 7:27:49 GMT -5
Maybe I missed it...but is there something wrong with the multimillion dollar practice facility the Wizards just built not too long ago in SE? Nothing, other than it is located in Anacostia. Uncle Ted wants what he wants. And he wants a practice facility closer to Cap One, apparently. eventsdc.com/venue/entertainment-and-sports-arenaTed probably bought into Bowser's vision/sales job of the ESA being the centerpiece of a transformation of "St. Elizabeth's East" (https://stelizabethseast.com/) into the next signature DC location...and the first one East of the River. There was a sense that, yes, there would always be a significant segment who would treat it as a no go zone, but a Wizards/Mystics crowd would be more open to it. Maybe you could even recapture some of the Black middle class that decamped for Upper Marlboro, Bowie, and Waldorf. Instead, the Homeland Security HQ consolidation at St. E's has been a fiasco, the envisioned retail to cater to those employees hasn't materialized, and Covid further derailed things. So now Ted is looking to obtain some much more lucrative arrangement closer to where people in the DMV are used to heading for entertainment.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 31, 2024 20:29:02 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 31, 2024 19:02:11 GMT -5
Hopefully replaced by the new Georgetown Stadium and Accessory Campus/Entertainment complex with a high speed bullet train between campus and the complex. One can dream! Am I out of the loop? Has Georgetown ever considered buying some of the property there given they can’t really expand beyond their current footprint in DC? Is it possible? Would be easy to connect the 2 campuses via shuttles I would think. Buying? Not that I know of. Renting? Sure. thehoya.com/5665/news/grad-housing-considered/www.arlnow.com/2013/09/10/georgetown-mulls-housing-385-students-in-clarendon/georgetownvoice.com/2013/09/12/student-leaders-oppose-satellite-residence-proposal/Ironically, this general topic has been near and dear to my heart ever since I served as a representative on the Georgetown BID's "Georgetown 2028" transportation committee. I was probably as incredulous as most when Joe Sternleib first brought up the idea of a gondola between Rosslyn and Georgetown, but then I suddenly had a vision of a Madison Square Garden-like facility on the Key Bridge Marriott site: Rosslyn II underground, an arena complex on top of that (sized for Georgetown, not the pros), and then some trophy office space above that. All with a built-in gondola station. It's too bad this 'DeGioiaDome' vision never got a chance to proceed past the dream stage. Thanks. I had assumed this would be an expensive proposition but folks were making it out like Rosslyn was on the down and outs (which didn’t make much sense to me). Rosslyn is definitely feeling the effects of the post-pandemic shift to hybrid/remote - there's noticeable fewer people there during working hours than there once were. But it's such a convenient location, and they've been adding enough amenities to draw the people who live within a close walk/bike/scoot away, that it's definitely not down and out. The major construction projects DFW alluded to continue apace. Edit to add: The DC CBD, however... is on the struggle bus right now. Would not be at all surprised to see Georgetown making more real estate moves while prices are low.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 30, 2024 22:16:42 GMT -5
NWSL season has started as well
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 30, 2024 20:12:38 GMT -5
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