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Written by cougster1
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
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This video has been going around the net for a little while now. It is of Yale student Aleksey Vayner. He wants to get into investment banking so what does he do? Sends out an 11 page resume and this video to invesment banking firms. Needless to say (well after you watch the video) he has become an internet sensation for how much BS he tries to put forth.
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Written by cougster1
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
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It is National Freedom of Speech Week this week. We at Cougster.com are super fans of freedom of speech and it is the whole point to this website, your voice uncencored. So use your right of free speech and post your opinions in the forums!
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Written by cougster1
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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WSU professor Thomas Preston has a book coming out called From Lambs to Lions: Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons and thinks the North Korea threat is overblown. From a WSU news release:
Washington State University political scientist Thomas Preston says North Korea’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapons capability are intended to deter against outside aggression and North Korea is unlikely to ever export nuclear weapons technology. “I think it is irresponsible hyperbole to suggest they will sell them to others,” Preston says. “They have had chemical weapons and biological weapons for decades and never sold those. They are too few in number and too valuable for that.”
Preston believes the Bush administration has been unwilling to really engage in substantive, serious negotiations with the North Koreans for the past four years.
“The current deteriorating situation is primarily a result of that failed policy. Pyongyang is quite likely engaging in diplomatic brinksmanship to try to put pressure on the White House to back off of some of its hard-line positions,” Preston says. “Unless we are planning to invade the North, we really don't need to create an 'artificial urgency' to this situation. It really only becomes a true crisis if we overreact and lose patience in continuing a diplomatic process. If we just maintain status quo for a time, and come back with another offer, Pyongyang can just as quickly decide to resume participation in the 6-Party Talks.”
The rest of the news release here.
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Written by cougster1
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Tuesday, 17 October 2006 |
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Today WSU has a web seminar called Student Plagiarism: What can be done? The discription of this seminar is:
Joann Porr, educational technologist with the Tri-County
Computer Services Association, will talk about how to use Turnitin.com to
monitor plagiarism and teach students how to properly cite resources.
TurnItIn.com is a somewhat controversial service. As your paper is submitted to a database without your consent. We at Cougster.com
are very much against plagiarism, cheating, etc, but are concerned about the
idea one is assumed to be guilty and must prove one’s innocence. More on this
in a later post. If you have time please attend this seminar and tell us what
is was like. It is from 1 to 2pm at Smith
Center for Undergraduate
Education 502A. Here is a campus map if you don't know where Smith Center is located.
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Written by cougster1
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Monday, 16 October 2006 |
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Background checks on WSU faculty are not automatically done when they are hired. According to WSU Today:
"WSU has
just instituted a new policy, effective Nov. 1, to provide for
background checks at the voluntary discretion of the authority
(department, search committee, etc.) doing the hiring, said Steve DeSoer, executive director of Human Resource Services."
Some say that background check are an invasion of privacy. We at Cougster.com don't have an opinion but think it is good for students know this fact.
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Written by cougster1
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Monday, 16 October 2006 |
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From the interesting stuff at other universities dept.
Student from the University of British Columbia are working on building a elevator that would lift things in to space. Yes it does sound crazy but it is part of a competition funded by NASA.
See a press release on the UBC students’ efforts here and the NASA elevator 2010 competition here.
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