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Former ECSU AD Facing Larceny Charge « CBS Connecticut
Former ECSU AD Facing Larceny Charge « CBS Connecticut
http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2011/02/08/former-ecsu-ad-facing-larceny-charge/
Eastern Connecticut State University's former athletic director turns herself in to police, on a charge of second degree larceny. Joyce Wong recently retired.
Police say the larceny charge involves less than $2,000 in athletic department funds, from an event.
Police say the money was taken as part of an effort to defraud a public community.
Retired ECSU Police Lieutenant Derrick McBride is acting as a spokesperson for the department.
"There was a warrant applied for, and the warrant was returned and approved based on the facts and circumstances presented," McBride said.
Police say the money has been returned, but McBride would not discuss what was done with the money that was allegedly improper or how it was improperly handled, because he was not involved in the investigation.
Police say the arrest stems from a complaint made in November.
Wong is due in court in Danielson February 22.
Eastern Baseball Coach Bill Holowaty Retires - Hartford Courant
Eastern Baseball Coach Bill Holowaty Retires - Hartford Courant
http://articles.courant.com/2013-04-26/sports/hc-bill-holowaty-retires-0427-20130426_1_holowaty-president-elsa-nunez-eastern-connecticut
Bill Holowaty woke Friday morning to his wife, Jan, in tears. This was difficult, a moment spent recognizing that a life built around baseball, all his family had ever known, was coming to an end.
"My wife said, 'You always say to players, and you preach, life after baseball," Holowaty said. "I've had a fantastic run and I'll have a life after baseball. I don't know what it will be, but it will be positive and it will help people. I'm proud of what we've done."
Holowaty's 45-year run as coach at Eastern Connecticut, a journey of extraordinary success and increasingly divisive controversy, is over. Amid allegations of abuse, and despite a swelling show of support from many former players, Holowaty resigned Friday, four days after his latest suspension began. The official announcement came from ECSU at 6 p.m. Holowaty earlier met with lawyers, signed paperwork at the university and called an impromptu team meeting at Eastern Stadium to inform players.
One of the most successful coaches in NCAA Division III history, Holowaty retires with a 1,404-525-7 career record, counting the one victory and two losses that occurred this week under assistant coach Michael Grant. Holowaty led Eastern to four national championships and was national coach of the year four times. He retires with more victories than any active Division III coach, and the most victories of any coach — in any sport — in New England intercollegiate history.
Under increasing scrutiny by the athletic department and university President Elsa Nunez, Holowaty called the situation surrounding him at Eastern "evil and sinful." He admits he was not perfect but says his behavior did not cross the line. He said, adamantly, that he has never been an abusive coach and that if his behavior "is going to be judged to be abusive, I'm in the wrong [situation]."
"It's tough to be a leader," Holowaty said. "It's tough to do it for 45 years and be perfect. I've made many mistakes but everything I've done has been in the best interest of kids and making them better. There has never been a moment where I would do something to hurt and kid. Never. Never, ever, ever."
Holowaty, 68, was suspended with pay Monday, when it was announced the university had "substantiated and affirmed through eyewitnesses and supporting documentation" charges that included a failure to comply with directives from his supervisor in a timely manner, failure to follow financial procedures as articulated in the department manual, failure to comply with an agreement that dealt with proper documentation of department funds, and throwing a helmet into the bleachers during a 6-1 loss to Suffolk March 25 at Eastern Stadium in Mansfield.
Holowaty, also a physical education professor at Eastern, was banned from campus and contact with anyone officially affiliated with the university. He was eligible to return to his job May 13 if cleared of wrongdoing during an ongoing ECSU investigation into what Nunez considered the most serious charge – public cursing and abusive language.
The suspension letter stated that "an undisclosed number of parents and students have come forward to articulate a pattern of alleged abuses over a series of incidents, the breadth of which can't be investigated without a committed and substantial effort on the part of the administration."
Nunez said Tuesday, "If he did something wrong, he should be terminated. If not, we owe him an apology."
That is now moot. Holowaty, a basketball player at UConn before graduating in 1967, was influential in the lives of countless players, many embracing his notorious, fiery demeanor. Still, he has critics, too, and in 13,500-plus innings there were several incidents that led to disciplinary action.
"I think how it's been handled is sinful and evil but it's the modern system we're in," Holowaty said. "In time, the whole stuff will come out. … I've been lucky, fortunate, had a great run. I haven't worked in 45 years. This year certainly hasn't been a fun year in many different ways but I've been very lucky. We developed a hell of a situation. I'm a darn good person. I'm not an evil person. I don't think about things to screw people up. It's tough to be a leader and I have principles and I challenge kids."
Holowaty, 68, was paid a salary of $110,764 in 2011, according to the Yankee Institute's online database of state employees at ctsunlight.org. Details of his retirement package could not be obtained Friday.
"It's really sad to see a guy who has done a lot of good – obviously, he wasn't perfect, but his heart was always in the right place – be dragged through the mud after building the program to national prominence," said Grant, a first-year assistant coach who was appointed to take over on Monday. "My thoughts right now are with Coach."
Graf Named Executive Director of Athletics - Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Graf Named Executive Director of Athletics - Johnson & Wales University - Providence
http://providence.jwuathletics.com/information/Wildcat_News/melgrafstory
August 23, 2012
Johnson & Wales University has named Mary Ellen (Mel) Graf as Executive Director of Athletics, announced by Marie Bernardo-Sousa, Senior Vice President of Student Services.
"Given the University's renewed commitment to Athletics, I couldn't be more pleased with the search committee's selection to appoint Mel Graf as the visionary to lead us during this exciting time in the evolution of our athletics program," said Ron Martel, Vice President of Student Affairs. "Mel brings several years of combined student affairs and athletics experience. She will be an excellent role model in leading the department as we continue to strive for athletic and academic excellence."
Graf has spent the last 17 years at Eastern Connecticut State University, most recently as the as associate director of athletics. At Eastern Connecticut she was responsible for assisting in the overall administration of the athletic department, including the supervision and management of 17 NCAA varsity sport programs. Prior to that, she held the position of assistant director for intramurals, recreation, and athletic facilities.
"I am extremely excited about this opportunity," Graf said. "Johnson and Wales University is rich with history and traditions and I am thrilled to be a part of shaping the future of Wildcat athletics."
Graf also continues to serve her country as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. She has served on two deployments, the first in Kosovo in support of Operation Joint Guardian, and the second, a 15-month combat tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Mel received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Cornell University, a Master of Arts degree in Education from the University of Connecticut, and a Master of Science degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.
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Ohio State Sucks. Who says D1 is better??!!
Study: Ohio State Not Graduating Players Today at 5:41 PM
Just 10 percent of Ohio State's basketball players received degrees at the school, according to a study that examined the freshman classes entering from 1996-99.
Just 10 percent of Ohio State's basketball players received degrees at the school, according to a study that examined the freshman classes entering from 1996-99.
"Sunday School" Cancelled today!!
There will be no Sunday School Academic meeting today. I will be contacting many of you after I get mid-term grades tomorrow.
Thanks, Trece
Thanks, Trece
Why MySpace Sucks
MySpace is Starting to Suck
The fun thing about MySpace was the ability to customize your profile page with widgets from other (smaller) services such as media-sharing service Imeem or social content-sharing site esnips or slideshow-generating service Slide, or even more well known sites such...
The fun thing about MySpace was the ability to customize your profile page with widgets from other (smaller) services such as media-sharing service Imeem or social content-sharing site esnips or slideshow-generating service Slide, or even more well known sites such...
HPE/SLM Majors!!!
Fall 2007
Health & Physical Education
Sport & Leisure Management
ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT SESSIONS
Seniors (90 + Credits)
Juniors (60-89 Credits)
March 5, 2007 12:30 pm – 1:30pm
March 6, 2007 12 pm – 1 pm
March 7, 2007 3 pm – 4:00 pm
March 8, 2007 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
All advisement sessions will take place in the
Sports Center Lobby
Please bring an unofficial transcript.
Registration codes will be distributed at the advisement sessions.
Health & Physical Education
Sport & Leisure Management
ACADEMIC ADVISEMENT SESSIONS
Seniors (90 + Credits)
Juniors (60-89 Credits)
March 5, 2007 12:30 pm – 1:30pm
March 6, 2007 12 pm – 1 pm
March 7, 2007 3 pm – 4:00 pm
March 8, 2007 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
All advisement sessions will take place in the
Sports Center Lobby
Please bring an unofficial transcript.
Registration codes will be distributed at the advisement sessions.
The Privileged Few?
Should Athletes Receive Admissions Privileges?
I fully believe that the athletics abilities of a high school student should be a factor in his or her admission to particular colleges and universities. If a prospective student-athlete can help a school’s sports teams, why shouldn’t that be a factor? Just as a high school student’s musical ability may weigh in to admissions decisions, athletic prowess can and should be a factor as well.
While there’s nothing wrong with athletics ability playing a role in the admissions process, there’s a fine line between targeting well-rounded students who meet an institution’s academic profile and allowing anybody who can catch a ball or shoot a jump shot a free pass into college.
A recent proposal from the membership has made its way into the 2006-07 legislative cycle, and would require prospects to register with the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse before taking an official visit or receiving an offer of financial aid. In the past, schools acknowledged a prospect’s athletic prowess before checking his or her academic credentials. This proposal would change all of that.
There’s nothing wrong with tagging kids who can help the school’s athletics program. What’s not right, however, is admitting unqualified students who are clearly unprepared to succeed academically because they can help you win.
Becoming a Better Writer...
Improving your Writing
Latest Update: Added Don’t bury the Lede from Active Voice to the Tips section. Each time I add new stuff to this post, I worry that the writing in the post itself contradicts the advice, and maybe my article about improving your writing is badly written. Don’t follow my examples, listen to these people instead…
Getting Started
- Want to write every day? Chris Brogan says “The secret to writing every day is to write every day” - so just Write Every Day. He offers some tips on how to find the time to do a bit of writing, and you’ll probably find that if you do it a bit more often, you’ll get better at it.
Getting Better
- Writing Tips from Paul Graham - How to Live.org list great writing tips from writer and entrepreneur Paul Graham. A good list of tips to get started (or re-started) with any writing project.
- Copyblogger’s Copywriting 101 - a short course in copywriting. Yeah, copywriting is for ads and things, but how much of what you’re writing is trying to sell something, even if it’s just an idea? Hey, I’m trying to sell you this free copywriting course right now. Full of the sort of advice that sounds really obvious once you’ve read it, which is usually the best sort. Starting with “Don’t Read This Post (or the Kitty Gets It)!” - how can you resist reading that?
- Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stepen King. He knows what he’s talking about. Ten minutes doesn’t sound like enough time, but he follows his own advice on getting to the point. If you only read one article linked here, this should be the one.
- George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language - a fairly long essay. If you’re short of time, at least skip to the bullet points towards the end starting “Never use a metaphor…” The whole thing is good, but those rules are the highlight for me.
- Angela Booth’s Ten Best Writing Tips - she’s been doing it for 25 years, and here she shares a few tricks and secrets. Tip Eight sounds especially good - keep writing and editing apart. When you’re writing, just write, and let it flow. Edit afterwards. “If you don’t have trouble talking, how can you have trouble writing?”
- You Don’t Need Permission to Create from Ripples - some good, practical advice for getting started and getting better.
- Writerisms and other Sins - a useful guide to overused and misused language.
Getting it Right
Grammar and spelling mistakes aren’t a problem in a quick email to a friend. In business emails, they can give a poor impression. If you’re trying to take writing more seriously, though, getting it right starts to become important.
- Do You Need a Grammar Brush Up? from the excellent Will Write for Chocolate comic strip. The strip hasn’t been going for too long, so it won’t take you too long to start from the first one and work your way through. It’s worth it.
- Paul Brians’ excellent collection of Common Mistakes in English.
- Paul’s collection of Commonly Misspelled Words.
- Paul also has a selection of Non-Errors - things that people will often tell you you’re wrong about, but which are perfectly standard or at least common enough to be ok.
- Also see Paul’s main introductory page to these pages.
Tips
- Don’t bury the lede - make sure you get your main point across.
- Brevity - good.
- Writing for Busy People from Mozillazine. Just a few quick points - practicing what it preaches - good advice. (Via Lifehacker.)
- Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing - via 43 Folders, where people rightly point out rule eleven in the comments - don’t centre-align your text ;)
- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing - just as valuable if you are a writer, or do want to work at it, but this is an excellent collection of easy tips. (Thanks to Gary for pointing this one out to us.)
- Lazy Listing - by Angela Booth - using list-making to help you write.
- Poynter Online - Fifty Writing Tools - an excellent series of articles on tips and tricks to improve your writing.
Planning and Organising Stories and Plots
- D*I*Y Planner article about a book on using index cards for writers.
- D*I*Y Planner on Agile Plotting - using index cards to arrange your plot.
- Chris Brogan writes at D*I*Y Planner about Story Maps - a method of plotting the good and bad events effecting your characters.
Writing for the Web
- SEO - Search Engine Optimisation. My own take is that generally, you’re better off writing and designing your site with people in mind, and the better search engines get at their job, the better you’ll look. Leave it to Google to improve your results. That said, there are some great tips at SEO Copywriting Techniques that Readers Love - ways to optimize for search engines that make things better for people, too.
- Writing Content for your Blog from ProBlogger’s Blogging for Beginners series - some good stuff for everyone, not just beginners. I’m sure we could benefit from mixing our sources more, rather than just posting ten things in a row from Make:, then doing the same thing the next day from Boing Boing.
- Scannable Content - from ProBlogger - on making your writing easier to scan through without reading fully. People often won’t read a whole article on the web, so making your content scannable could at least mean they’ll get the idea of what you’re trying to tell them. Little things like using bits of bold can help ;)
- Writing Gooder at ProBlogger - some excellent advice for writing. Aimed at bloggers, but just as relevant if you’re writing articles or even a novel. “Once you have the mad writing skillz, nothing will stand in your way of taking over the blogosphere.”
Fighting Writer’s Block
- A great post from Performancing - aimed at bloggers, but most of the ideas should work for other writing too - How to Beat the Blank Page of Doom.
- A quick tip from Sacha - writer’s block? Just read for a while, then write about anything you read that interested you.
- Merlin on turning procrastination into a shitty first draft.
- Using a thesaurus to brainstorm - from Angela Booth.
- Beat the Block - a collection of tips from the Ink Shrink.
- Eliminating Writer’s Block - from Angela Booth again. Includes the neat trick of deciding not to write - then you’ll want to ;)
- Angela Booth’s Psych yourself out of a writing block - a simple bit of mind-trickery to jolt you out of a block.
- Hack Your Way out of Writer’s Block, by Merlin Mann.
- Writing, Briefly, found via Merlin (again).
Inspiration
- Innowen suggests you get a little help from your friends - “Friendstorming, or the art of generating ideas with a little help of your friends has helped me generate ideas in ways that I’m not sure I would’ve found otherwise.” Not just a great suggestion, but a great new word too - friendstorming.
- Where do you get your ideas from? - the question all writers seem to dread. Neil Gaiman has a go at answering it. Turns out he makes them up. From his head. Good reading, actually, this.
- Use Your Imagination - How to get the story rolling in your head before getting it down on paper.
- Writing From Your Life - from Angela Booth. Some tips on how to get the best from your own experience and imagination.
Just in Case You Decide to Get Something to Eat in NYC
Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y. (AP)
A New DIII Athletic Facility? It Helps Everyone!!
Quote Of The Day
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story this morning about the sparkling new athletics facility at Kenyon College. The institution spent $70 million to build the athletics center, and initially I balked at that many dollars going to a Division III facility. The last thing I want to see is an arms race at the Division III level. But Kenyon created a facility that has transformed the entire campus and benefits more than just student-athletes. About half of the college’s students use the center for intramural sports; prior to its erection, only 100 students were active in the intramural program. It seems to me that this facility has become a focal point on campus and has energized the faculty and student body. Academics, athletics and wellness are all related and this building helps make that a reality.
"We didn't want our varsity teams to go in there and lock the doors. We envisioned a wellness center for everyone on the campus," Doug Zipp, director of the Kenyon College Athletic Center.
Wikipedia
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
Middlebury College has jumped into a growing debate within journalism, the law and academia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia articles.
No Child Left Behind - Update
Educators React to No Child Left Behind
Joel Packer, director of education policy and practice with the National Education Association, offers reaction from educators to recent proposed changes to No Child Left Behind.
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ATrue Life Skill - Writing
Improving your Writing
Latest Update: Added a link to SEO Copywriting Techniques that Readers Love, in the Writing for the Web section. It’s about time this page got an update…
Getting Started
- Want to write every day? Chris Brogan says “The secret to writing every day is to write every day” - so just Write Every Day. He offers some tips on how to find the time to do a bit of writing, and you’ll probably find that if you do it a bit more often, you’ll get better at it.
Getting Better
- Writing Tips from Paul Graham - How to Live.org list great writing tips from writer and entrepreneur Paul Graham. A good list of tips to get started (or re-started) with any writing project.
- Copyblogger’s Copywriting 101 - a short course in copywriting. Yeah, copywriting is for ads and things, but how much of what you’re writing is trying to sell something, even if it’s just an idea? Hey, I’m trying to sell you this free copywriting course right now. Full of the sort of advice that sounds really obvious once you’ve read it, which is usually the best sort. Starting with “Don’t Read This Post (or the Kitty Gets It)!” - how can you resist reading that?
- Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes by Stepen King. He knows what he’s talking about. Ten minutes doesn’t sound like enough time, but he follows his own advice on getting to the point. If you only read one article linked here, this should be the one.
- George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language - a fairly long essay. If you’re short of time, at least skip to the bullet points towards the end starting “Never use a metaphor…” The whole thing is good, but those rules are the highlight for me.
- Angela Booth’s Ten Best Writing Tips - she’s been doing it for 25 years, and here she shares a few tricks and secrets. Tip Eight sounds especially good - keep writing and editing apart. When you’re writing, just write, and let it flow. Edit afterwards. “If you don’t have trouble talking, how can you have trouble writing?”
- You Don’t Need Permission to Create from Ripples - some good, practical advice for getting started and getting better.
- Writerisms and other Sins - a useful guide to overused and misused language.
Getting it Right
Grammar and spelling mistakes aren’t a problem in a quick email to a friend. In business emails, they can give a poor impression. If you’re trying to take writing more seriously, though, getting it right starts to become important.
- Do You Need a Grammar Brush Up? from the excellent Will Write for Chocolate comic strip. The strip hasn’t been going for too long, so it won’t take you too long to start from the first one and work your way through. It’s worth it.
- Paul Brians’ excellent collection of Common Mistakes in English.
- Paul’s collection of Commonly Misspelled Words.
- Paul also has a selection of Non-Errors - things that people will often tell you you’re wrong about, but which are perfectly standard or at least common enough to be ok.
- Also see Paul’s main introductory page to these pages.
Tips
- Brevity - good.
- Writing for Busy People from Mozillazine. Just a few quick points - practicing what it preaches - good advice. (Via Lifehacker.)
- Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing - via 43 Folders, where people rightly point out rule eleven in the comments - don’t centre-align your text ;)
- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing - just as valuable if you are a writer, or do want to work at it, but this is an excellent collection of easy tips. (Thanks to Gary for pointing this one out to us.)
- Lazy Listing - by Angela Booth - using list-making to help you write.
- Poynter Online - Fifty Writing Tools - an excellent series of articles on tips and tricks to improve your writing.
Planning and Organising Stories and Plots
- D*I*Y Planner article about a book on using index cards for writers.
- D*I*Y Planner on Agile Plotting - using index cards to arrange your plot.
- Chris Brogan writes at D*I*Y Planner about Story Maps - a method of plotting the good and bad events effecting your characters.
Writing for the Web
- SEO - Search Engine Optimisation. My own take is that generally, you’re better off writing and designing your site with people in mind, and the better search engines get at their job, the better you’ll look. Leave it to Google to improve your results. That said, there are some great tips at SEO Copywriting Techniques that Readers Love - ways to optimize for search engines that make things better for people, too.
- Writing Content for your Blog from ProBlogger’s Blogging for Beginners series - some good stuff for everyone, not just beginners. I’m sure we could benefit from mixing our sources more, rather than just posting ten things in a row from Make:, then doing the same thing the next day from Boing Boing.
- Scannable Content - from ProBlogger - on making your writing easier to scan through without reading fully. People often won’t read a whole article on the web, so making your content scannable could at least mean they’ll get the idea of what you’re trying to tell them. Little things like using bits of bold can help ;)
- Writing Gooder at ProBlogger - some excellent advice for writing. Aimed at bloggers, but just as relevant if you’re writing articles or even a novel. “Once you have the mad writing skillz, nothing will stand in your way of taking over the blogosphere.”
Fighting Writer’s Block
- A great post from Performancing - aimed at bloggers, but most of the ideas should work for other writing too - How to Beat the Blank Page of Doom.
- A quick tip from Sacha - writer’s block? Just read for a while, then write about anything you read that interested you.
- Merlin on turning procrastination into a shitty first draft.
- Using a thesaurus to brainstorm - from Angela Booth.
- Beat the Block - a collection of tips from the Ink Shrink.
- Eliminating Writer’s Block - from Angela Booth again. Includes the neat trick of deciding not to write - then you’ll want to ;)
- Angela Booth’s Psych yourself out of a writing block - a simple bit of mind-trickery to jolt you out of a block.
- Hack Your Way out of Writer’s Block, by Merlin Mann.
- Writing, Briefly, found via Merlin (again).
Inspiration
- Innowen suggests you get a little help from your friends - “Friendstorming, or the art of generating ideas with a little help of your friends has helped me generate ideas in ways that I’m not sure I would’ve found otherwise.” Not just a great suggestion, but a great new word too - friendstorming.
- Where do you get your ideas from? - the question all writers seem to dread. Neil Gaiman has a go at answering it. Turns out he makes them up. From his head. Good reading, actually, this.
- Use Your Imagination - How to get the story rolling in your head before getting it down on paper.
- Writing From Your Life - from Angela Booth. Some tips on how to get the best from your own experience and imagination.
Words From Harvard's First Female President
Harvard's Faust: Boundaries Remain for Women
Drew Gilpin Faust is poised to become the first woman president of Harvard University in its 371-year history. The 59-year-old Radcliffe dean recalls being a "sort of a smart-aleck" girl growing up in a world dominated by men.
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