Archive of entries posted on 8th March 2024

Friday Night Open Thread: Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another?

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Just to throw it out there for discussion — I never pledged a fraternity in college, because cost/benefit-wise, I could not justify undergoing hazing.

It’s a good guess that half of the people reading this joined fraternities/sororities (got any pictures of pillow fights in the latter?), and half didn’t. So there’s no point in advocating for either — I just thought I’d throw the subject out there to see if anyone had any thoughts on hazing. (Not on frats in general.)

This all came from a comment to a news story:

“The black fraternities at UF in the 70s were far worse than anything we did. Omega Phi Psi, a black fraternity, actually branded their pledges, an Omega symbol was branded onto their arms.

One of the things I did when I was a pledge was to get naked while the brothers dumped trash on top of us from the 2nd floor.”

What’s Walrus Building?

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I know you are all dying to know. I showed you the box previously but here is the work progress on the Ferdinand.

The next build going on is the Elephant.

As this progresses I won’t be showing too much as the chassis and base are exactly the same as the Ferdinand with only a slight color variation. Then, because of an ordering mix up, the next will be skipped as they are a second copy of both of these vehicles. I have nothing else lined up at the moment and hoepfully may be suspending work if the house situation dictates.

Previous build

USS Enterprise CV-6

USS Enterprise (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1930s. She was the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name. Colloquially called “The Big E“, she was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Launched in 1936, she was the only Yorktown-class and one of only three American carriers commissioned before World War II to survive the war (the others being Saratoga and Ranger). She participated in more major actions of the war against Japan than any other United States ship. These actions included the attack on Pearl Harbor — 18 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers of her air group arrived over the harbor during the attack; seven were shot down with eight airmen killed and two wounded, making her the only American aircraft carrier with men at Pearl Harbor during the attack and the first to sustain casualties during the Pacific War — the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, various other air-sea engagements during the Guadalcanal Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, the most for any U.S. warship in World War II, and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II. She was also the first American ship to sink a full-sized enemy warship after the Pacific War had been declared when her aircraft sank the Japanese submarine I-70 on 10 December 1941. On three occasions during the war, the Japanese announced that she had been sunk in battle, inspiring her nickname “The Grey Ghost”. By the end of the war, her planes and guns had downed 911 enemy planes, sunk 71 ships, and damaged or destroyed 192 more.

Despite efforts made by the public after the war to turn Enterprise into a museum ship, Enterprise was ultimately scrapped from 1958 to 1960.

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Welcome to IMAO! Yale Should Aim for IMAO’s Poster-to-Intern Ratio: It’s Much More Fun

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Yale University Employs Nearly One Administrator per Undergrad
College Fix | March 1, 2024 | Terrance Kible

The Fix found 94 named DEI officials across 10 of Yale’s 19 schools. Numbers varied widely, with only one DEI official reported at the School of Architecture but 45 DEI officials at the School of Medicine’s Diversity Advisory Council.

Yale employs one DEI official in its public health school, three in its music school, three in its environment school, four in its nursing school, four in its divinity school, and 11 in its drama school. Yale also employed five university-wide DEI officials and 17 at its undergraduate school.

The Diversity Advisory Council has five vice chairs for DEI as well as a director of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion; an associate dean for gender equity and deputy chair for DEI; an associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; a faculty director of workforce development and diversity; three directors of DEI; a vice chief for DEI; a chief diversity officer; and a departmental director for DEI.

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