Okay there’s no No Kings thing in Urbana today but that’s because of (drumroll) SECOND Pride That’s right, we do a Pride [Observed] in the fall so the college students can participate. It’s big! Stonewall could have been an autumn riot? Could’ve been?

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Ah he referred to that ONE guy from history JUST when I thought he should mention that

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Maybe it is still the case that (pace Cleanth Brooks!) what is distinctive about literary analysis is “irony and paradox” Students need to be trained on texts that are deliberately trying to trick them, and parse the possible differences between “this was intended” and “we can see this now”

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I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

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Okay, these numbers are great. But why boast about your #36 program in Economics when your #21 English program (in a nation with thousands of English departments!!!) is sitting right there? 🤨🤨

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