13 November 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
How did you feel about the staff at your university when they enforced policy? When they told you that something wasn’t in your best interest? When they offered to help you through tough times? It’s been a while since we’ve visited the subject of Higher Education, and we’ve perhaps never approached it from quite the same vector as this episode. Student Affairs veteran and resident synesthete Shawn Brackett joins me and Kevin for an insider’s look at institutionalized paternalist / maternalist practices in public universities, historical precedents for them, and some questions around the ethics of their implementation. So settle in for some free pizza, free condoms, and free thought in this week’s BF.
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adulthood, alcohol, Alexander Graham-Bell, Arthur Chickering, autonomy, bachelor’s degree, childhood, drugs, economics, education, Fermat’s Last Theorem, high school, higher education, in loco parentis, Kevin, maternalism, paternalism, Reed College, sex, sex education, Stephen, student affairs, Texas Tech University, The Purge, The Simpsons, University of California System
05 December 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Community has gone on hiatus! This episode Stephen gushes on its brilliance and Kevin schools him about the TV industry.
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30 Rock, ABC, American Family, American Idol, Andre the Giant, Arrested Development, Austin Powers, beer, Bosom Buddies, broadcasting, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CBS, Community, corporations, Dollhouse, Eddy Izzard, FOX, Freaks and Geeks, house of cards, How I Met Your Mother, James Spader, Kev Hamm, Kevin, Kevin Sorbo, Kevin Spacey, Martin Scorsese, Michael Williams, NBC, Neil Stephenson, Neilsen Ratings, Netflix, Parks and Rec, Party Down, Pretty in Pink, Pulp Fiction, Ron Howard, Shiner, Shutter Island, Slashfilm, Snow Crash, Stephen, structural dramaturgy, The Office, The Simpsons, The Voice, The Wire, Til Death, Tom Hanks, TV, Veronica Mars, Wallace Shawn, Whitney, Will Smith, work, Work It
15 December 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
First off, I would like to express my apologies for the lack of WIN here recently on BF. We are college students after all, with all the lack of sleep, homework, and other rigmarole that entails. BUT we’re back for another episode, though the relevance is about a week late. If you’ve been following Dollhouse, […]
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alternate reality game, Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible, Eliza Dushku, Enver Gjokaj, Family Guy, Firefly, FOX, Futurama, Jonathan Frakes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kevin Miller, Skype, spoiler alert, Summer Glau, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, The Simpsons, webisodes, Windows 7, XKCD, XKCD Sucks
10 January 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It’s here, people! We’re inching our way ever closer to becoming bona fide, honest to goodness procasters. We’re back in the DMS and managed to rig up their spiffy, expensive microphones into the best audio configuration we’ve had yet. Julie Meadows joins us this episode for a finagled foray into copyright, Mickey Mouse, and sneezing… among many other decidedly BF things. So pull up an ideal chair and get ready for the audio bliss that is Episode 18…
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ABC, ASL, audio, audiobooks, blinking, books, burping, Catholicism, Chris Smith, Congress, copyright, Cory Doctorow, Craphound.com, Creative Commons, Disney, divorce, DNA, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, East India Trading Company, education, Europe, Facebook, fair use, fascism, FCC, Gatorade, Gettysburg Address, Godwin's Law, Grapevine, happy birthday, hats, intellectual property, iPhone, Japan, Julie, Kevin, Korea, Little Brother, lobbying, Matt, metaphysics, Mickey Mouse, Monoprice.com, Native Americans, ownership, Palm OS, patent, personal identity, Philip Glass, philosophy of mind, piano, Pixar, Pokemon, Powerade, private property, privatization, public domain, RadioShack, Romeo and Juliet, science fiction, Shakespeare, Ship of Theseus, sneezing, Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town, Steamboat Willy, Stephen, The Simpsons, theater, Tracy Olman Show, trade, trademarks, Wall-E, Walt Disney, Western culture, wills
