The James Logan Courier

By Audrey Hoffer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

MILWAUKEE — Women and minorities are significantly underrepresented as professors in science and engineering departments at the top research universities across the country.

As a result, tenured positions in those departments are primarily the realm of white men, according to a recent study.

The study, conducted by Donna J. Nelson, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, looks at all faculty in the top 100 university science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments in the nation, counting the number of tenured and tenure-track professors by gender, race and ethnicity.

By Karen Heller
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

Another week, another debate. If it's early November, this must be the Republicans in Cedar Falls, Iowa, as opposed to the Democrats gathering in Philadelphia last week, or Nov. 17 when the same crew assembles in Las Vegas.

What happens in Vegas, won't stay in Vegas. The Democrats travel on to Des Moines, Los Angeles and Boston, while the Republicans duke it out in St. Petersburg and twice in two days in Des Moines, the Paris of presidential politics.

Is this any way to elect a leader, through a two-ring traveling circus of gabfests?

By David Collins, Opinion Editor

I must say, before I begin, that this column is not intended to slander or disrespect any religion or belief, or those without them.

I have found in my observance of humanity that people hold certain beliefs by which they live. Whether these beliefs are results of culture, religion or personal growth, they are held in high esteem by their adherants. In this I find only one issue: When some are a part of a religious group or system of beliefs, they tend to follow said group blindly.

This, of course, is not an issue I find in all believers, but in many.

From wikipedia:
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.

Strutt was born in Langford Grove, Essex and in his early years suffered frailty and poor health.

Read John William Strutt's Nobel Prize lecture, free from Nobelprize.org.