Hi textbook companies

When you charge $150 for a textbook, bundle it with useless software, and come out with unnecessary new editions, students are going to make illegal copies, online and offline, because it is the only way they can afford the required reading.  If you want students to buy your textbooks, you need to stop charging them up the ass like greedy douchebags.

Criminologists in demand

For some reason I was under the impression that the popularity of Law and Order, CSI, and other crime solving shows had lead to an overabundance of eager grad students wanting to study crime... but according to an article in IHE, demand for criminologists currently exceeds the supply.  Why the demand?  Because undergraduates want to study crime... dangerous, sexy crime...

Undergraduates flock to courses about crime . . . “Undergraduate enrollment is the coin of the realm,” Uggen said, and criminology courses produce the numbers with which a department chair can make “a much stronger claim to a faculty line.”

So if nobody wants to read your boring family studies ethnography, consider studying criminals instead.