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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: Dr. Blackheart on October 10, 2015, 08:34:55 AM
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With MBB and MUAD content
http://www.youtube.com/v/R7Gb6bW653A
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That is an absolute slam dunk for Marquette. Can't wait for this facility to be finished
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That is an absolute slam dunk for Marquette. Can't wait for this facility to be finished
They have to raise a lot more money first.
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What's the anticipated cost of this project?
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What's the anticipated cost of this project?
It has not been announced. My guess is that won't happen until they finalize the plans. What has been released so far has been referred to as a "preliminary design concept".
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Thanks for posting the video
We will have this and a new arena before DePaul gets theirs done.
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And for a school that allegedly does not having good-looking women, I would bet that Kris Ropella, MU class of '85, is the most attractive female dean of any engineering school in the U.S.
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The Dean of the College of Health Sciences uses potentiality when he means potential?
Can that school really be as hard to get into as the College of Speech?
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The Dean of the College of Health Sciences uses potentiality when he means potential?
Can that school really be as hard to get into as the College of Speech?
Here is the Merriam Webster definition of potentiality:
: a quality that can be developed to make someone or something better
: a chance or possibility that something will happen or exist in the future
Looks like it is a real word that was used appropriately.
What college did you graduate from?
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Thanks for posting the video
We will have this and a new arena before DePaul gets theirs done.
I'm guessing we will also have the 2026 National Championship before DePaul gets the new arena.
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Here is the Merriam Webster definition of potentiality:
: a quality that can be developed to make someone or something better
: a chance or possibility that something will happen or exist in the future
Looks like it is a real word that was used appropriately.
What college did you graduate from?
Snap
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And for a school that allegedly does not having good-looking women, I would bet that Kris Ropella, MU class of '85, is the most attractive female dean of any engineering school in the U.S.
I'll second that, Chick. When I first saw it, I thought she was a TV reporter.
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And for a school that allegedly does not having good-looking women, I would bet that Kris Ropella, MU class of '85, is the most attractive female dean of any engineering school in the U.S.
A high bar to jump over no doubt.
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And for a school that allegedly does not having good-looking women, I would bet that Kris Ropella, MU class of '85, is the most attractive female dean of any engineering school in the U.S.
She is well spoken. I don't really care what she looks like, but I would bet you are probably right simply knowing that few women get into Engineering studies (about 19%), and many fewer (by default) are Deans of Engineering.
Here's the other candidates
(http://www.engineering.iastate.edu/dean/files/2014/03/Sarah-800w-March2014.jpg)
(https://engineering.tamu.edu/media/23465/about-dean-banks.jpg)
(http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/users/u34691/e_allen_headshot08102015.jpg)
(https://photos.prnewswire.com/prnvar/20150306/180109)
(http://www.washington.edu/news/files/2013/01/JudyRamey-e1357587187744.jpg)
(https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Spotlights/college-of-engineering-dean-and-ece-professor-leah-jamieson-receives-rochester-institute-of-technologys-kate-gleason-medal-for-leadership-in-engineering-education/jamieson.jpg)
(http://www.trbimg.com/img-54a966f7/turbine/hrnews-buzz-williams-on-hokies-fina-20150103)
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I was lucky enough to take a few courses from Dr. Ropella, she was an excellent professor, and it's awesome that she's so involved with this project.
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I'm still shocked Dr Ropella is the dean, she was approached multiple times prior to this and always turned it down.
I think the school is better for her as the dean but I can't imagine she will be long tenured as the DoE.
This athletic performance center is pretty awesome, just hope they can get the funding fairly quickly to get it off the ground.
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Here is the Merriam Webster definition of potentiality:
: a quality that can be developed to make someone or something better
: a chance or possibility that something will happen or exist in the future
Looks like it is a real word that was used appropriately.
What college did you graduate from?
The College of Speech. I found it interesting that you felt it needed to be pointed out that potentiality was an actual word. Used appropriately? No, the correct word for the context of his comments was potential. I suspect that the Dean of the College of Health Sciences was attempting to sound more intelligent by using a ten dollar word where a one dollar word would not only do but be correct for the context.
Nice research. I believe that it shows that you have potentiality.
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The Dean of the College of Health Sciences uses potentiality when he means potential?
Can that school really be as hard to get into as the College of Speech?
I think this Mary Schmich column from yesterday's Chicago Tribune is apropos (correct usage?):
"Meet the Grammar Crank. Maybe you already know him.
The Grammar Crank is that guy on the online comment board who dismisses the opinions of others by mocking their grammar mistakes.
Or what he thinks are their grammar mistakes.
The Grammar Crank posts items on Facebook and Twitter just to make fun of an error in the headline or the text.
Or what he thinks is an error.
The only thing the Grammar Crank loves more than good grammar is pointing out other people's bad grammar, and if he's reading this, he's already preparing his diatribe on sentence fragments, especially ones that begin with "or."
Back in the old days, the Grammar Crank's audience was small. The best he could do was to chide his children, correct his friends and fire off letters to an offending writer or publication.
Now? The Internet is his bullhorn, and he is not going to let anyone get away with anything that departs from the rules he was taught in third grade.
Or imagines he was taught.
To be clear: The Grammar Crank is not the same as The Grammar Geek.
The Geek appreciates good grammar and notices bad grammar but acknowledges that grammar evolves. Unless asked, he or she tries to shut up about it.
The Crank, on the other hand, condemns and crusades, decrying every misused "hopefully" as proof of the apocalypse.
I try to stay on the geek side of the line but I fear I crossed it recently, which is what inspired me to write this column.
Some stranger on Facebook had taken someone to task for purportedly misusing "who." I couldn't resist. I jumped in and defended "who" as correct. A spat ensued.
And when it was over, I had to wonder: Why? Why had the person started this public argument? Why was I compelled to argue back? With a stranger?
One reason, I'd guess, is that it's easier to argue over "who" and "whom" than over all the chaos in the world, but for more on the topic I sought out Carol Saller.
Saller is the editor of the monthly Q&A of the Chicago Manual of Style Online, in which she answers grammar questions with an open mind not always associated with the word "editor."
"When we're young, we're taught the rules," she said when I called. "When you're young, if you don't have a lot of knowledge, you cling to those rules. Your power lies there. It's an ego thing. As you get older, you realize you're an idiot and become more flexible."
Well, some people do. Not grammar cranks, which is what makes them cranks or, to use her term, "shamers."
Cranks and shamers are often more interested in the minutia than in the message, and happy to derail conversations by nitpicking.
"And often," she said, "the shamer is just wrong, flat-out wrong."
Saller, too, has noticed the proliferation of online grammar shaming, particularly on political sites.
"People bring their political passion," she said. "There's this anger, and they want to insult someone any way they can. Insulting their grammar is akin to saying, 'You're stupid.' "
Saller, who is also the author of "The Subversive Copy Editor," a book designed to help people understand that grammar isn't set in stone, has presided, very affably, over some of the great grammar debates of our time.
Like, is the serial comma good or bad? One or two spaces after a period?
"Those two quibbles are not worth anyone's time," she said, though she added that "one space is the rule."
She also believes it's fine to split infinitives, end a sentence with a preposition and, in many circumstances, use "they" as a singular.
Saller said that grammar shaming is a topic of discussion lately among some people who think about language.
"I've read more than one person saying that criticism of someone else's grammar is the last remaining socially acceptable form of discrimination," she said. "There's a prejudice that someone who doesn't speak standard English comes with a raft of other faults."
She noted that while it's poor form to attack people for their race or gender, it's still acceptable to attack people for their grammar.
Saller isn't advocating getting rid of grammar rules. Neither am I.
But grammar geeks and cranks would be wise to follow the advice she recently offered online, "The trick is to be less annoyed."
Amen.
But don't get me started on "between you and I."