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It's not that they don't care (well, some don't, obs) but most of them realize that school shootings are statistical rarities. That ain't what's gonna kill yer kid.

What's gonna kill 'em? The car you drove her to school in. Dogs. Cancer. Suicide (big one, esp for teens). Homicides outside the school from people they know, mostly their own parents. Non-automobile accidents of all sorts. But not school shootings. Those aren't worth bothering with as far as actual risk goes (as opposed to fear... they're great for causing fear).

About 300 kids have been killed in school shootings in the last 35 years, or about 8 or 9 per year. 8 or 9 kids will die in automobile accidents today. The rate of school shootings has been slowly declining since the 1990s.

Ok, so from 1968 to 2012 the number of guns per capita doubled.

Yet the U.S. Homicide rate is currently about 20% lower than it was in 1968! You've proven increasing the number of guns in the U.S. doesn't result in more people being murdered. Congratulations.

P.S. Schools are much safer than in the 90s, shooting incidents involving students have been declining for decades.

Yep, most every pickup in the student (HS) parking lot had gun racks in them with loaded rifles, especially during deer season.

No problems, no one got shot. Hell, not to get into it, you had MUCH more easy access to firearms, yet, no one was mass shooting anyone, it seems to be more of a people problem than gun access problem these days.

But that's a different argment.

No one to speak of is mass shooting anyone now either. Statistically gun deaths in schools are down since the early 90's. There have been a few highly mediagraphic outliers that have skewed our perception over the last decade or so, but overall schools are safer than they were when I was in school.

It does make sense I think to look at those outliers and have a level-headed conversation about 1) why those disturbed individuals had access to firearms 2) why they didn't get whatever help they clearly needed before they became homicidal.

I personally don't think banning particular weapons is going to have the desired effect. Nor do I think locking down our schools or arming them to the teeth is conductive to learning. I think there are larger societal issues that are not going to be susceptible to a quick fix that need to get addressed before we see mass shootings completely eliminated.

"As long as kids are dying in the streets, no amount of tariffs or trade wars matter."

Except...it's not that bad, and getting better.
1) violent crime is continuing a decades-long trend of decrease
2) gun homicides have dropped by 1/3 (!) since a high in the early 1990s, from 18000 to about 13000.
3) https://news.northeastern.edu/... shows that school shootings are down 75-80% in that same span.

By *any* objective measure, gun violence is decreasing significantly. We should be celebrating.wildly at the improvement.

(It's worth noting that both of these numbers have decreased simultaneous with the largest increases in private gun ownership in US history. I'm not asserting causality - I believe the violent crime decline is probably due more to easily available abortions - but certainly it disproves the superficial point that guns cause violence.)

(And as far as your "it's all Republicans, they have no excuse"...erm, they couldn't kill Obamacare despite basically running solely and universally on that platform for the last what, 6 years? I don't think you get how government works.)

First, my deepest sympathies to everyone who loves her. Second, I hope some of you asshats NEVER deal with this but that you grow up! Third, give her time it's not been a week since she went through a major trauma. Make sure she gets to have her baby near her for both of them. She may not be able to hold the baby but it can lay on her or beside her. Let her rest. Previous posters said keep the conversation positive and easy to answer questions. Make sure her body is getting lots of massage and movement to prevent atrophy and for stimulation. I found this also http://www.northeastern.edu/ne... this is a PDF on another method http://www.neurology.org/conte... I think the first link would be most affordable but all info is worthy of investigation. I think time is going to be most beneficial and positive thinking. I hope for the best for all of your family.

" I've never seen a Degree which says Bachelor *IN* Anything."

Yeah. That's the whole point. Are you slow on the uptake in general, or just after you've loudly made an idiot of yourself? The OP didn't say he has a Bachelors of Science, or a degree in Theater (which is the most believable scenario actually, since he refused to offer more details when I called him on it). He said he had a degree in science.

"Ahhh so now no one ever gets degrees?"

It seems more likely that your Bachelor of Science is in Theater as well, after seeing how completely unable you are to follow a conversation without asserting ridiculous non sequiturs.

Right now, the United States (including governments at all levels) spends a total of between 50 and 60 billion dollars per year on mass transit infrastructure and operations. Funding for Amtrak has averaged around $2 billion per year the last decade or so.

If a quarter of spending on automobiles were diverted into public transit infrastructure and operations, it would quadruple the mass transit subsidy. (Note that that would still leave the United States ahead of European countries - many by a significant margin - in terms of fraction of household expenditures on car ownership.) Your bus stop probably wouldn't be a mile away any more. Your bus wouldn't take 45 minutes to get to the train station; it would run in a dedicated lane or on its own right-of-way, if it weren't replaced outright with light rail. It wouldn't have to stop for traffic lights, because signals would automatically clear the road ahead. The train station would probably be closer, anyway--and you'd probably be connected to an express or even high-speed line. There would be a unified fare system, so you could ride the entire system with one smart card. You can rent a car by the hour for those trips to IKEA.

Your forty-minute commute by car might, under ideal circumstances, be the same length, or even shorter. Or it might stretch out to forty-five or fifty minutes, during which time you can have a nap, read a book, catch up on the news, or connect to the onboard wifi. And the four or five grand per year you're saving turns into an annual two-week vacation in Switzerland, where you can see just how good public transit can get if it's funded properly.

The problem, of course, is that there's always a delay between when you start putting money into infrastructure and when it starts making a difference to a large number of people on the ground. And that interval between the investment and the return frightens the living daylights out of politicians. Even projects that will save their constituents money in the long term are a tough sell, because they're up against candidates who will promise to cut taxes now.

Are you sure? Does that mean that since it's implanted in my eye, the crystalens isn't a device? 200 years ago when mills were powered by animals it wasn't machinery either?

I fail to see the logic in your statement. How does the use of biology in a machine make it not a machine?

I'll bite. I once had a friend who attended the Northeastern University School of Journalism and not only could she not tell the difference between "news" and "opinion" but could not understand why dividing the two is important. Her thought was people are inherently biased and so a good journalist, rather than elevating stories above one's bias, should tell the story the way one sees and feels it.

Facts seem to be secondary to most outlets these days, regardless of their political leanings.

I would never write something like that anyways...

Have you noticed a correct usage of the verb "to comprise" is also given ?

The programme comprises two short plays (they were chosen to make it up)

So "Fructose comprises of table sugar and corn syrup" means : "Fructose is made of sugar table and corn syrup. Let me doubt words could have the opposite meaning as the language evolves.

It just seems to me that the author and you confuse "to comprise" and "to compose". You may also want to read http://www.northeastern.edu/toolkit/messaging/styl e13.html#132 in order to perfect your article writing skills.

Note also that if the totals in fructose did not amount to more than 100%, it would have been more difficult to find the meaning of the sentence.

But to your defense, it seems to be accepted in the /. slang language ;-) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=com prise

• Babson College Wellesley
• Bentley College Waltham
• Berklee College of Music Boston
• Boston Architectural Center Boston
• Boston College Newton
• Boston Conservatory, The Boston
• Boston University Boston
• Brandeis University Waltham
• Bunker Hill Community College Boston
• Cambridge College Cambridge
• Emerson College Boston
• Emmanuel College Boston
• Fisher College Boston
• Harvard University Cambridge
• Hellenic College Brookline
• Lesley College Cambridge
• MIT Cambridge
• Massachusetts College of Art Boston
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
  and Allied Health Sciences Boston
• Mount Ida College Newton
• New England Conservatory of Music Boston
• New England School of Law Boston
• Northeastern University Boston
• Pine Manor College Chestnut Hill
• Radcliffe College Cambridge
• Simmons College Boston
• Suffolk University Boston
• Tufts University Medford
• Wellesley College Wellesley
• Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston
• Wheelock College Boston

I note from your post that you are going straight from school to teaching. I think you make my point that "those who can, do, those who can't teach". You would do your future students better service by getting experience outside the ivory tower before purporting to tell them what they need to know to succeed there.
Q.E.D. (Quod Erat Demonstratum, That which was to be proved).
BTW: Since it seems to be the presumption of most respondents that I am some non-professional ignoramus: I went to College. Actually to two: one the idiot Liberal Arts kind with the spoilt upper middle class party kids predominating that is typical of most ( Providence College), the other a real University that taught, because it had a coop program, and its professors were all involved in industry ( Northeastern University). My father, after a career that involved being VP Of Ops for IBM, and then CEO of 2 phone companies, is now an MBA professor at a major national university in Europe. He shares my disdain for most of American third level education.
I reiterate my point: most "College" is a self perpetuating scam to separate people from their money for the benefit of the mediocrities, who have no real world experience, that run it. The elevation of it to a government subsidized requirement for all but the most menial jobs short changes the K-12 system (of money), most people who attend it (they wind up in debt for no good reason), employers (because they still need to actually train people who have college degrees, only they have to pay them more while doing it because they have grand expectations), and the economy (by wasting tax $ and postponing the changeover from tax burden to productive citizen of a substantial portion of the population).
In short: Too many people go to College, there are too many colleges, most of them learn and teach nothing of much use, and the money spent on it could be used far better reforming the K-12 system.

Suit yourself, Hanzo. Those elite schools will pass you over for avoiding math much quicker than they will looking at your overall GPA. There is a sure-fire way to avoid that C...HARD WORK. If you aren't good in math, rather than dance around it, get some help! Tutoring and other services are usually available at Community Colleges.

According to the admissions, based on whats on their websites and documentation, a Philosophy or Liberal Arts major is not required to take calculus as a prerequisite, so why should I take it if its not required? Would it really boost me up that much ?

There is a sure-fire way to avoid that C...HARD WORK. If you aren't good in math, rather than dance around it, get some help! Tutoring and other services are usually available at Community Colleges.

I cant get tutoring because I dont have a car yet, and I dont live on campus because its community college, so this isnt an option, when I live on campus then I can get tutoring.

Perhaps you might have an undiagnosed learning disability that prevents you from "grokking" math. Again, find out about resources available to you and use them.

A learning disability is an excuse, the reason I dont get math is because math is useless, to actually suggest that someone has a learning disability because they dont get math is like me claiming anyone who cant use Linux or anyone who doesnt understand C must have a learning disability.

It is utterly impossible to get a degree, anywhere, without math. That is, unless you answer one of those many spams for U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.E.G.R.E.E.S F.A.S.T. You know the ones...the ones you get in the same batch as the Nigerian Scam and "free porn passwords."

Ok, check out some of these sites, look under "philosophy" as the major, and tell me where it says you need to take calculus to get a degree in philosophy.
http://www.bu.edu/
http://www.northeastern.edu/
http://www.bc.edu/
http://www.tufts.edu/
http://www.hampshire.edu/flash/index.php
http://www.amherst.edu/
http://www.umass.edu/

Math is a prerequisite for SCIENCE degrees only. Show me where it says you MUST take math to be accepted into any of these schools for a philosophy degree? At most I'll need to take an a linear algebra class or a pre calculus class, thats it.

One class is all you must pass in order to get a degree, and I can take this class during the summer and get a C, and get my degree. So tell me why you think it would be a good idea to take it now if none of the schools say its a requirement for acceptance?

If the schools DID say its a required class for acceptance into their philosophy program, I'd take the class, but that would delay me from transfering for another semester so I dont see a point, I think instead i will transfer out of community college into one of the 4 year colleges on the list I showed you, and then take the mathclass, when I actually LIVE on campus and no longer have to worry about traveling for over 2 hours to get to school via public transportation.

Hard work can avoid a C? Actually no it cant, it depends on how good you are at what you are doing. You can work hard and get a C, or you can breeze through a class and get an A, if you are doing something you never were taught in highschool, such as say a student who comes from another country and decided to take a college level english class, theres no way in hell they'd get an A, because they never learned English before, math is the same way, its unrealistic for me to believe I can make up for 12 years of not being taught something, simply by cramming 12 years of work into one semester.

Sure I can pass with a C, but I dont think I'd truely underst