Your vibe curator has a truly insatiable appetite for the company of mayors.

This year's game studies listserv blowup has really alleviated the last of my digra fomo. The conference *has* to go up from here, right?

Columbia AAUP chapter faculty statement, posted online by classics professor Joseph A. Howley and read aloud on WKCR: "Columbia faculty have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored."

Then I remembered that the building I was moving into was due to be demolished 18 months later, and the maudlin vision evaporated.

It was! The whole panel was great, and Cael's argument was especially generative I thought.

If we were the only one, it wouldn't matter. It takes a village. Still the case that we're building the plane while we're flying it.

Wrote a support ticket to Riot, met with many questions. Do you want swag? Are you a student? Let's call you back. Then, they said they liked it. Then a big splash, people all over the globe got involved. Robert Morris just 1200 students then. Big news for them especially.

Things got moving quickly. Could offer 50% tuition and full room and board. Got space on campus at the same time. It came down to president's willingness to see beyond this was just a video gsme.

Was playing leagues legends, got beat often, it was always college players. Recognition moment: but how do you get buy in from the university? Had direct line to president, drafted a white paper, went through chain and eventually went to talk about it. It would validate unrecognized community.

What are your schools doing to promote your programs and transparency about the skills students walk away with? Nikita: A lot of local high schools. Michelle: Have hard conversations, including what to avoid. What do we want and how are we going to get there?