Normally we have a meeting of all staff at the beginning of each semester. But this semester is hardly normal; we had the meeting today.…
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Normally we have a meeting of all staff at the beginning of each semester. But this semester is hardly normal; we had the meeting today.…
The Washington Post published an article titled Amid Katrina’s Ruins, Black Colleges Survive: Xavier University, the nation’s only historically black Catholic university, expected half its…
I’m back in my office for the first time since August 26th. I was amazed to find everything pretty much just as I left it.…
The University wants staff back next Monday, according to information posted on the website. What’s incredible to me is that this news has only come…
Hmmm… I guess I was wrong when I talked about the “air of inevitability” regarding the position of webmaster for the University. The VP of…
On Thursday I got a phone call I’d kind of been expecting, but which still caught me by surprise. It was the VP of IT…
A few days ago I got an e-mail from one of the higher-ups at the University indicating that I still have a job there. The…
Our day here at the University started with a blackout, which lasted about two hours. I took pictures.
After more than four months, a box of various equipment I requistioned finally arrived today. Included in this box was a 250 GB external firewire…
I’d originally put in for last Monday as a vacation day. But I came back from our trip a few days early, and was ready…
The Xavier University Bookstore is selling copies of the new Harry Potter book — two days early. This could be trouble, like what happened in…
The university where I work is located on the edge of a neighborhood called Gert Town. Back when I lived Uptown, I used to ride…
I keep forgetting to mention that, after two and a half years of work, the BibleDudes website was officially launched last month, and I’m just…
It’s Quiet Day again, here at the university. And I must say it is quiet on campus. I like the idea of Quiet Day —…
I was reading the current issue of the Fifth Estate, and I came across a quotation of a provocative a passage from the same magazine…
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on an interactive Flash movie for BibleDudes. It simulates an archaeological dig, and you can explore…
Just saw Davy Rothbart and Popcorn Pete of Found Magazine fame at Xavier. Davy came to New Orleans last year on our tenth wedding anniversary,…
Here’s a picture of Melvin for no particular reason. I was demonstrating the camera a couple months ago and took this picture almost by accident.…
The school year usually starts with a flurry of activity and a burst of optimism. Then everybody gets in their groove and things chug along…