College and the demographics cliff

[dixiehack]

Legally they are on Central time year round. Practically speaking everyone who doesn't work for local government or have kids in school stays on "fast time."

The school zone signs in that county add "Central" after the posted enforcement hours.

 

[Twirling Time]

Meaning they don't change clocks? Looks like they're on Eastern time during the summer and Central otherwise. Is that right?

Just from what I was told, legally they're on Central time as all of Alabama is, but set their clocks to Eastern to match the bigger community across the river. I'm certain they change their clocks as normal.

 

[FileNotFound]

I worked on a project in Columbus, Ga., and stayed in a hotel in Phenix City. The clocks in the hotel were all on Eastern time.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Northland College in Ashland, Wis., going under.
https://www.wpr.org/education/ashland-northland-college-closing-barb-lundberg

Out of curiosity, since I've never heard of this school, I looked them up. They're down to 250 students from what was typically 600 a few years back.

Their sports teams are predictably awful. Their women's soccer team was 2-13-2, and that was two more wins than most of their other teams got.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Out of curiosity, since I've never heard of this school, I looked them up. They're down to 250 students from what was typically 600 a few years back.

Their sports teams are predictably awful. Their women's soccer team was 2-13-2, and that was two more wins than most of their other teams got.

The school is on Lake Superior and had a reputation for environmental studies. But it's miles and miles from anywhere.

 

[dixiehack]

I think you can go ahead and reserve a spot for William Patterson University on this thread.

On Sept. 20, Boone advised Becker that the fossil packages were possibly being held at the UPS fraud department, according to the lawsuit. Becker contacted UPS directly on Sept. 30 and was informed that his packages were intercepted because William Paterson University failed to pay outstanding invoices; as a result, the university's account had been canceled, the suit says.

"Our client learned that the packages were dumped at an unidentified landfill somewhere in or around Nashville, Tennessee," the suit says.

The university's account with UPS was canceled on April 24. The suit claims Boone had known that July 8 and alleges several other packages from other people had also been confiscated for the same reason.

And thus did nearly all of a professor's fossil collection end up in the trash.

380-million-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after N.J. college didn't pay UPS bill, lawsuit claims

 

[waterytart]

Like so many kids, I was fascinated by dinosaurs and thought being a paleontologist would be incredibly cool. The professor just needs a jury made up of people with that background and he'll skate for strangling Boone.