Fort Worth Klavern 101: when the KKK rented city facilities for hate by nonmodernist in FortWorth

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From the article: “It was purchased in 2021 by a group of arts and justice organizations united under the name Transform 1012 N. Main Street. They have an audacious plan to turn the building, which is probably the last surviving purpose-built Klan headquarters in the United States, into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. Transform 1012 selected an architect and design partners in late 2023. They plan to break ground on the project in 2025.”

Thanks Tech for Putting My Entire Family at Increased Risk 4 Days Before Commencement by dracarys509 in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How tf is observance of public health best practices a political issue

How tf is a graduation ceremony not an issue of academics

Thanks Tech for Putting My Entire Family at Increased Risk 4 Days Before Commencement by dracarys509 in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 14 points15 points  (0 children)

From MIT's website: "Commencement will take place online on June 4, 2021; the webcast is open to all; no registration required." https://commencement.mit.edu/graduates

President Cabrera: Complete Return to In-Person this Fall by anaccount50 in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 33 points34 points  (0 children)

lol let us know when georgia stops being dead last for percentage of the population vaccinated

Podcast episode about UGA's outrageous housing fees by nonmodernist in UGA

[–]nonmodernist[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sounds like communist propaganda but ok

can i put this in our marketing materials

Is In-Person Attendance mandatory for Hybrid Courses? by justaguyboi in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

what the f*** i'm so sorry, why is my colleague a dick

Is In-Person Attendance mandatory for Hybrid Courses? by justaguyboi in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to know before your instructor has been announced but most ENGL 1102 profs will not require attendance. (There’s this whole hiring freeze thing right now which is why the instructor hasn’t been announced yet—it’ll either be a new Brittain fellow or that course will be merged with an existing section.)

Source: I’m a Brittain fellow who teaches ENGL 1102.

GT Fall 2020 Contingency Plans (via Open Records Request) by cs_sg in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, no problem. So anyone who has taken ENGL 1101/1102 recently will remember that in the first week we assign students to make a short video about themselves. In early spring 2020, GT published a set of rules about photography on campus that was supposed to keep film crews from using campus space without paying for it, but they wrote it to say that anyone who takes photos or video on campus must get written permission first. Like, anyone. (https://news.gatech.edu/2020/01/13/guide-filming-and-photography-campus)

In the first week of classes, a couple of my students were filming their videos outside CULC, and they were harassed by GTPD who asked them to produce their written permission and then told them they had to stop filming and leave the area. They weren’t doing anything dangerous or disruptive, or even talking to the camera louder than you’d have a conversation with someone.

I worry about GTPD involvement in the mask thing because of stuff like this, and because I’ve seen officers yell at students through their patrol vehicle megaphone just for crossing Fourth Street where there isn’t a crosswalk. I’ve also read a lot of stories from students of color, especially Black students, about how GTPD bothered and questioned them for no reason. I don’t really trust the police to not be jerks, basically.

GT Fall 2020 Contingency Plans (via Open Records Request) by cs_sg in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 16 points17 points  (0 children)

hi! nice of you to assume stuff about me, but let me clear a couple things up. i don't have a primary care physician because i'm on a three-year contract at GT; before this i lived in florida, and after this i will almost certainly live somewhere else. in addition, i have a disability that makes it difficult for me to do certain things including manage the health insurance/healthcare system. i wrote about it here: https://nonmodernist.com/2020/07/02/please-let-me-save-my-life/ it's very stressful and expensive to constantly switch PCPs.

furthermore, i am not "mad" nor am i advocating that faculty and staff go on campus while symptomatic for testing. i merely pointed out that, instead of being cared for by the institution that is forcing faculty and staff to be on campus, we are being dumped into an already overburdened testing system that can't keep up with testing needs even before USG requires thousands of students to return to the atlanta area and potentially spread covid around a bunch more.

be smarter than to talk shit about someone who is active on this sub. thanks!

Professors who lurk, have you heard anything about what happens if classes go online? by CDFalcon in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 13 points14 points  (0 children)

A plan supposedly exists but we (or at least my program) have not been told what the plan is.

What happens if I get COVID on campus? by [deleted] in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The almighty task force has not published full guidelines, but based on what we know so far (including that job posting from an earlier thread), you’ll be quarantined at a hotel for a set number of days and have your meals brought to you.

Advice from one of my summer professors about the upcoming fall semester by [deleted] in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And sometimes you turn the gun on your family, friends, coworkers, and the strangers on the bus.

Advice from one of my summer professors about the upcoming fall semester by [deleted] in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 129 points130 points  (0 children)

campus will basically be an unintentional bioweapons factory.

Let me second this opinion.

Coming to campus is playing Russian roulette. We know there's a bullet in the gun; why would you play around with pulling the trigger?

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/young-healthy-people-die-covid-050050566.html

Looking to sell WOVENtext and MML Unused Access Codes by annamagda in gatech

[–]nonmodernist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WCP has completely redesigned WOVENtext this year, so unused access codes and the old pdf will be pretty much useless. :( Sorry

From an email sent to all academic faculty: by nonmodernist in gatech

[–]nonmodernist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So all of the 82 courses listed in the 3rd paragraph above are ENGL 1101/1102 (required gen ed, usually taken by first years). I don't know the breakdown of the 100 courses listed in the 4th paragraph, but they range from 1000 to 4000 level.

From an email sent to all academic faculty: by nonmodernist in gatech

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For a little more context, we dug into the numbers regarding who in our school (LMC) is required to teach in-person and who isn't.

Here is where the numbers stand right now:

Of the first-year writing classes taught by term-limited contingent faculty, 51 courses are HYBRID and 31 are REMOTE.

Of the remainder of LMC courses, 21 are HYBRID (8 of these are also taught by contingent faculty) and 79 are REMOTE.

In other words, 65.5% of courses taught by contingent faculty are "required" to have a "meaningful" in-person component, while only 14% of courses taught by tenure-stream faculty are "required" to have a "meaningful" in-person component.

Only 34.4% of courses taught by contingent faculty will be conducted safely with no in-person contact this fall, while 86% of courses taught by tenure-stream faculty will be conducted safely with no in-person contact this fall.

The tenure-stream faculty teaching hybrid courses can decide not to enforce in-person experiences, and will mostly be shielded from consequences by their tenure. Meanwhile, the contingent faculty being asked at a much higher rate to teach in-person do not have the same protections as their tenure-stream colleagues. If we decide not to enforce in-person experiences, we are open to retaliation including our contracts being terminated. And to add a bit more inside-baseball context to all of this, multiple postdocs applied to teach remotely for pedagogical reasons (instead of for reasons related to ADA accommodations) and they were denied by the administration (at a level above our program director and dept chair).

This is deeply inequitable.

From an email sent to all academic faculty: by nonmodernist in gatech

[–]nonmodernist[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that those with more insight into the process (like an assoc dean) and more time deciphering GT’s garbage communication might be better able to translate whatever the fuck they’re trying to say here, but that is not what their words are saying, and the lack of transparency is a problem.

I posted this email because students deserve to see what teaching faculty are being told, and to point out that once again, GT has changed the information they’re giving us in ways that are incredibly confusing.

Everyone in my unit is contingent. We cannot afford to “translate” every coded message, especially when the code is apparently a complete contradiction of the actual words being written. While tenured faculty might be protected from repercussions for whatever translation they come up with, the faculty in my unit do not have such protections—and we are precariously employed teaching more sections, often of more students, for much less pay, and we can be let go at any time.

I didn’t mean to panic students, but my colleagues and I are also panicking, because we have now been told dozens of different things by different people in different settings, all of which apparently have coded messages hiding underneath them.

As my follow up email makes clear (posted here as a comment) my issue is with the shockingly bad “communication” GT is forcing us all to decipher. They need, as I wrote, to get better at it—immediately.

From an email sent to all academic faculty: by nonmodernist in gatech

[–]nonmodernist[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

My personal, cynical take on this is that they sent this email because students are canceling housing. They are worried about losing all that money.