Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 7:16 and sunset is 6:01 for 10 hours 45 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 84 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy, after consulting…
Equality
City, Daily Bread, Diversity, Equality, Religion, Science/Nature
Daily Bread for 2.17.26: Rainbows
by JOHN ADAMS •
Equality, Gender, Liberty
Daughters
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, Equality, History, John Lewis, Justice, Law, Liberty, Race
Wake up!
by JOHN ADAMS •
Culture, Diversity, Equality, Integration, Race
Karen Attiah on Diversity and Integration
by JOHN ADAMS •
This morning, Karen Attiah of the Washington Post observed the difference between diversity and integration. Through remarks on Twitter (@KarenAttiah), in a thread quoted below, Attiah notes the greater importance of integration over mere acknowledgments of diversity — (1) I didn’t get a chance to say it on @TheTakeaway with @tanzinavega but I was struck when…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Equality, Harassment, Misconduct, University, UW System
Negative Equality is No Virtue
by JOHN ADAMS •
After UW-Whitewater’s chancellor, Beverly Kopper, resigned in December, faculty member JoEllen Burkholder objected that Kopper’s resignation would amount to a double standard: Some faculty members, such as women’s and gender studies professor JoEllen Burkholder, questioned the timing of Kopper’s resignation coming before the report’s release. Burkholder said she sees Kopper’s one-sentence resignation letter submitted to…