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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New Acronym/Items Found in Hallway

Proper Pronunciation of New College Acronym Overheard in Hallway: "College of Less."  



Three dense spherical metalloid objects found in University Hall third floor hallway. Can anyone identify these?  

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

LLeSS is MORE!

Anonymous said...

Looks like a [certain lackeys] crawled back to whatever swamp spawned [them]: http://journals.utoledo.edu/headlines/2011/01/05/hail-a-taxi-and-head-downtown/ The new lackey says, "Too often what the community hears about The University of Toledo focuses on topics like the budget, a grant for faculty research, or lately, the relationship between administration and faculty. Those are all important topics, sure, but the students are the reason we’re all here." I wonder if it's the *official* position of the University that the community hears too much about faculty research. It could explain why so few people in the community can articulate what faculty do with their time.

Anonymous said...

Those seem too large to be administrative brains. What can they be? Perhaps little eggs of transformative change.

Anonymous said...

We will have to ask the Chemistry folks to confirm this, but it looks like synergy globules that have precipitated out of the gaseous clouds that always hover about the third floor.

Anonymous said...

Ball bearings, you nit! That is kept the "University on the Move" going.... Now you have them, the university will have to stop unless... You put them under the feet of Presient Jacobs the next time he happens to visit the College of Less.

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Anonymous said...

You may not like the name, but if you use College of Less, you're insulting colleagues and peers, not administrators.

If college of less catches on, who do you think will have more trouble dealing with it, the administration that oversees 135 other colleges or the faculty, staff and students who have to deal with a derogatory college nickname made up by, in many cases, members of that college.

I would think Jacobs would use the college of less to denigrate social sciences and humanities before faculty in those fields would.

Anonymous said...

The administration's ads on the utoledo.edu site have moved to the highest levels of Newspeak:

More with LLSS!

UT Reality again outpaces satire.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 11:50

Wait until Jacobs et al, start poaching the resources of LLSS--you will learn all about what less is.

Anonymous said...

If I was a student, why would I go to or stay at a college where the faculty in that college make fun of it?

I understand and share the frustration, but I really think you're shooting yourselves in the foot here for the sake of a laugh.

Anonymous said...

College of LoSS. More a statement of the times than of the faculty.

Anonymous said...

Ok. How about the College of Broad Understanding of Languages, Literatures, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Information Technology.

I guess Jacobs really could have made it worse, hard as that may be to believe.

Yr humble & obt

John Dickinson.

Anonymous said...

If I were a student, why would I want to go to a University that does not value the liberal arts? The University has made it clear that we are to be a relevant trade school. Not a University of the first class. What a LoSS.

Anonymous said...

I like how you're sad about how the liberal arts are devalued as you actively use language to devalue other professions like law, engineering, and pharmacy as "trades".

Gavin said...

Who is "you?"

Some of the above comments appear to confuse the Blog with those who have commented on it, and make no distinction between different comments either. Be precise . And I saw no language denigrating law, etc. and none denIgrating LLSS faculty either.