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The study doesn’t actually state or imply that Star Trek is racist. It just points, in its background section, to an older study that found that removing ‘stereotypical’ computer science objects, like Star Trek posters and video games, from a computer science classroom and replacing them with random objects raised female undergrad interest in the computer science classroom to that of male classmates. Basically, if you take out all of the nerd memorabilia, girls aren’t afraid to dork out on computers, too.

The overall study is junk, though. They spend pages and pages theorizing about how the symbolism contained in the design of college campuses is making low-SES and minority students feel excluded. They talk about their first study where they literally had 8 grad students go around campus and say, “Yep, that looks like a poor. They’re sitting in a way that takes up less space than a rich kid. Probably because of all that poverty.” I’m not kidding. Then they test their design/exclusion theory by asking students if they feel comfortable doing a bunch of random, low-inhibition crap in public areas of campus and say, “Yep, low-SES and minority students feel less inclined to do expressive/performative crap in public spaces. Probably for the design/architectural reasons we guessed and definitely NOT because of, oh I dunno, variations in cultural norms or non-architectural causes of repression. But not definitely, because we didn’t actually test whether the space itself made them uncomfortable in any meaningful way. Tune in for our third round of this study, where we again utterly fail to actually test our underlying hypothesis and instead just drone on about how the design of UVA really just bums us all out!”

This was the 5th. There were three failed votes today and one yesterday before this one.

In 1184, King Henry IV of Germany called a meeting of nobles to settle a land dispute between a bishop and nearby count. The nobility of the area gathered in the second floor of a building in the town of Erfurt.

The floor, unable to bear the weight of the gathering, gave out and the assembled nobles crashed through the ground floor and into the cesspool below, where at least 60 perished, many drowning in the latrine.

The event is known as the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. Henry, the bishop, and the count survived and the land dispute went unresolved.

The mugshot caption actually says the one on the right is 56. Guessing the age in the article is an error.

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Isn't that in international waters? How can the US government make any laws about speeds in thos area?

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There’s a band extending 200nm from the coast called the “exclusive economic zone.” The country has the sovereign right to manage and conserve natural resources in the waters and seabed/subsoil within that zone and to protect and preserve the marine environment within that zone.

Countries have full control over the first 12nm and significant control over the next 12nm, so most people refer to seas outside of either of those as “International waters,” but the high seas don’t really start until you get past the EEZ (or even beyond that to the end of the continental shelf, if you’re talking strictly about the seabed), and the coastal country’s jurisdiction fully ends.

Dawkins tried to commit right after Golson lost his spot. The staff basically told him they couldn't take his commitment until they knew how the board would shake out - at the time, it looked like Kyle Allen was an ND lean.

It seems like a lot of schools view him as the perfect second QB in their class: he's got a very good upside as a developmental prospect, but is lacking enough in polish that he's not going to scare off top-tier recruits. With LSU taking two strong QB prospects last year, they can afford to take a flyer on Dawkins if they miss on their other recruits. He shouldn't be the primary target, though.

RE ND's depth chart: Hendrix technically has another year, but he's unlikely to stay if he doesn't see serious playing time this year. He's going to graduate with a pre-med degree after the season and intends to go to med school. Golson is supposedly coming back, but Res Life has extremely strict standards, so no one's counting on that. Assuming neither one makes it back, Zaire (and now Kizer) will be the only QB on scholarship going into 2014, and JUCOs typically don't meet ND's admissions criteria. I wouldn't be surprised to see ND continue to recruit Dawkins even with Kizer in the fold (word from ND's recruiting reporters, though, is that only Park and Cornwell remain on the board, so they may feel better about Golson or worse about Dawkins than the consensus).