Web site slowly creaks back to life

It's been neglected since January, and as of this writing, it's been replaced with a hokey "Under Construction" page.

But rest assured, the Independent Register Web site, www.indieregister.com, will be back online with a new look and a complete archive of the newspaper's nine print editions.

I've been planning the Web relaunch for about two months and, after attempts to learn Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage on the fly (that evil paperclip from Office makes a startling return), I finally decided to seek professional help.

And that's no euphemism for therapy. Someone who actually knows what she's doing is bringing my PageMaker designs to life and uploading them to the Internet.

So, if you're visiting this page again to see if we'd resurfaced, please check back soon.

As Mark Twain once said, the reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.

Instructors should limit conferences

This may seem a bit personal, but it affects others as well.

College instructors should be limited on the amount of conferences they are allowed to attend per semester.

Sure they pick up ideas, learn new techniques and learn about developments in the ever-changing world of education...but these conferences shouldn't interfere with the education of the students.

I have heard students complain before about this problem, and recently I too have become victim to a wandering instructor...the same one I might add.

Nothing personal about the instructor, I think he/she is a great person. But by being gone -- what seems like every other week -- how is the instructor expected to instruct?

One thing I'm not clear on:
Is it the instructors' choice to attend so many conferences, or is the institution requiring professors to leave their students for a week...several times in one semester?

My soloution:
Limit instructors to one conference per semester.

The value of the information brought back cannot equal the success of a student trying to improve their own life.