The View From Here:
      Lynne Fukuda
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The Techno Corner:
      Susan L. Jones
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QUIBILS AND QUIRKS
(the original text as serialized in The Cariboo Observer)

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed.
English and Creative Writing
McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada
E-mail: lukivdan@shaw.ca

LAST EPISODE/CHAPTER 72: Hooper got mad at his teacher: “You said I was orange!”

CHAPTER 73: “SO THAT’S WHY
THE QUIBILS INVADED”

            “You ARE orange,” she said.
            “Do you eat a lot of carrots?” the professor asked.
            “I hate carrots,” Hooper said.
            “Don’t blame me just because you have ugly ears,” Miss Snapdragon said.
            “Yeah?” Hooper said. “Well, at least I’m not mean. I didn’t say you’re as skinny as a bean pole.” Then he thought he saw the professor wink at Miss Snapdragon. That made the lump in his throat burn. “I could have said your hairdo looked like an upside-down hornet’s nest.”
            Miss Snapdragon secured loose locks of hair with bobby pins. She actually appeared thoughtful. But Hooper figured she looked too cheerful.
            “You’re the cause of the war. Don’t you know that? You made fun of me. That made King Quibil mad. The quibils and I went to town to find out why you were so awful. But we got chased out. That really made the king mad.”
            Professor Hamburger had been pulling at his beard. He stopped. “So that’s why the quibils invaded—”
            “It’s all your fault!” Hooper told Miss Snapdragon.
            “Maybe I did insult you. I said ‘maybe.’ But I won’t stand for this.” She pointed a finger at Hooper as if it were a six-gun. “I won’t take the blame!”

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A Commentary on the Corporatization of Higher Education

Jason G. Caudill
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Carson-Newman College
E-mail: jason@jasoncaudill.com

Introduction

In recent years there has been considerable discussion in the field of higher education about applying corporate management models to the operation of colleges and universities.  While many administrators see corporatization as a reasonable solution there are just as many who feel that it will compromise the mission and the success of institutions of higher education.  The truth, as is often the case in polarizing debates, likely lies between the two extremes.  By examining where higher education is at today and how business theories and methods interact with the needs of colleges and universities it is possible to highlight the positive and negative effects of corporatization.

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Hurricane Katrina: A Disaster Relief Volunteer's Perspective

David Wilde
Researcher/Independent Scholar
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research
Albuquerque, New Mexico
E-mail:  wilded@hotmail.com

My task was and remains to record the passage of time, perhaps like Camoens, the famous early 16th century Portuguese explorer, and to try to evoke the historical past without offending. To give a fair and equitable account of this journey to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina that in some minds never happened and to others should not or could never have happened in the way that it subsequently evolved or in the way that it actually did.

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