Quick Hit: Chronicle of Higher Ed Is Ridiculous

Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Emily Rutherford with Emily Rutherford

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  • Quick Hit: Chronicle of Higher Ed Is Ridiculous

This is how the Chronicle of Higher Education framed its blog post about the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, in which Congressman Joe Sestak beat incumbent Senator Arlen Specter:

 

Arlen Specter, Staunch Supporter of Research Funds, Loses Bid to Keep Senate Seat

Thirteen months after he switched parties to save his career, Sen. Arlen Specter was defeated by Rep. Joe Sestak in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, ending his bid for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. A cancer survivor, Mr. Specter has been a big proponent of increased spending on biomedical research throughout his Senate tenure. He is perhaps best known for working with Sen. Tom Harkin to double spending on the National Institutes of Health between 1998 and 2003.

There are many ways I could think to describe Arlen Specter (political opportunist? Senator emeritus?) but trust a higher-ed trade publication to point, out of all the things for which Specter is known, to something which has ramifications for academic research.

Emily is a staff writer for Campus Progress. She attends Princeton University.

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