RIP Thread for Notable People

He may have been afraid of it getting caught up in his drumsticks......
 
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Duke of Marmalade said:
Tragic, and I am not going to take sides on this one!
But what occurs to me is that he would have got away with it except for the extraordinary publicity that he generated.
How many professors have quietly slipped through the scrutiny process by cheating?
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Having been a victim of such a personality in UK academia I find it very easy to take sides. After first coming across the story last Saturday, I read a good bit on it.

First off, I think his hairdo is a major contradiction to any suggestion of a 'strong work ethic'. Academics are often vain. But hardly ever so impractically vain.

The core of this situation seems to come down to Arday's appointment to Cambridge. Put aside any possibility that his previous institutions had copped on to him and successively recommended him strongly so as to remove him from their own staffs. The real question here has to be the selection process and the extent to which a selection panel can have their validated and approved candidate(s) overridden by the university's management.

It would appear that Cambridge VC, Debbie Prentice, is off the hook on the appointment. Her own appointment post-dated Arday's. Her only sin was acceding to her under-managers' caution in seriously addressing the initial plagiarism accusations and doing a proper audit of his publications.

Heads must roll at Cambridge at least - maybe Durham and Glasgow too.

But it's high time academia was stopped in acting as a law unto themselves in matters of management. This is a matter for government.
 
joer said:
ZZ top drummer Frank Beard died at 77 years old. Brilliant drummer...RIP ...
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Apparently he was a major drug addict back in the 70s, he spent his first big cheque of 77K back in 1976 on heroin and cocaine, every bit of it he said. Before that he never had enough money to be a serious addict.
ZZ Top were very successful in creating a mystique with their long flowing beards and texas drawls, also they never gave interviews, appeared on TV shows or played on other musicians recordings. Alot of 70s rock acts were not able to make the transition to the MTV era of the 80s with electronic keyboards and music videos but that was ZZ Tops most successful periods.
 
trajan said:
But it's high time academia was stopped in acting as a law unto themselves in matters of management. This is a matter for government.
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Probably a topic for a thread of it's own but what do you mean by that?
I am not a fan of self regulation, at the very least it creates a culture of elitism and almost always a culture of self serving corruption, so I'm with you on the oversight issue but how is it a matter for government?
 
Purple said:
. . . but how is it a matter for government?
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Universities in Ireland are legally established under a Visitor. This person oversees good administration within the university and deals with issues arising within the existing university's governing structure.

Visitation is old hat in the newer UK universities. It's retained by some. Oxford and Cambridge have Visitation at college level but not at university-wide level.

But aside from legal niceties it's clear that even well-endowed universities like Oxford and Cambridge cannot ignore government's wishes for long. Their fat endowments simply won't cover the running costs of the university if a government imposes a funding embargo. Besides, what sort of students would apply for under- or post-graduate study at an institution that is assertively contemptuous of the wishes of wider society ?

The whole area of equality of opportunity for minorities within society is a matter that can - and should - be led by the government in law, regulation and administration. Initiatives by certain corporate bodies are all well and good. But without firm government involvement - standard-setting, if you like - these initiatives may fail and become discouragements for other ones later.
 
Announcement and tributes on BBC website

3 pages of them and counting

I will always love you Dolly, and here's just one of many reasons:

"In 1999, she launched the Imagination Library, which gave free books to children in Tennessee.

It has since expanded to Australia, the UK, Ireland and Canada, sending out millions of free books every year – and it was all inspired by her own father's illiteracy."

Broken-hearted, RIP
 
Actor Tim Curry, who played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise the Clown from Stephen King's It, has died at 80.
He was also nominated for multiple Tony awards for his work on Broadway.
 
Terry Dyson has died aged 91
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Member of the Spurs double winning team he scored the second goal in a two nil win over Leicester City in the cup final and two goals in the European Cup wnners final in 1963 as Spurs became the first British team to win a European trophy.
May he rest in peace
 
I'd only know the big name and Irish players of the 1960s - I would only have a limited knowledge of 1960s football, I'd heard about the Spurs double winning team but wouldn't be able to name the starting XI. But that's a nice tribute from Deiseblue.
 
Actor Richard O'Sullivan, whose roles included Robin Tripp in 1970s TV sitcoms Man About the House and Robin's Nest, has died aged 82.
He was also known for starring in Doctor at Large, Dick Turpin, and the 1980s sitcom Me and My Girl, alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joanne Ridley and Joan Sanderson. O'Sullivan died surrounded by close family at Brinsworth House, the Royal Variety Charity's care home, in west London where he had lived for 23 years...
Born in London in 1944, O'Sullivan started his career as a child actor in the 50s and 60s, playing uncredited roles in dramas in 1953.
He went on to appear in the Children's Film Foundation's first serial production Raiders of the River.

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Richard O'Sullivan: Man About the House star dies aged 82

His biggest roles included Robin Tripp in 70s TV sitcoms Man About the House and Robin's Nest.
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