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	<title>WCSU in the Age of Reason &#187; Paul Steinmetz</title>
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		<title>We might be broke, but art will save the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/06/13/we-might-be-broke-but-art-will-save-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had two experiences recently that tested my finely honed perspective on life, namely that if just one of my kids were an engineer, I could relax a little. First, I sat on the committee that interviewed candidates for the position of dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at WCSU. My personal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sherman Alexie shakes up university crowd</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/03/22/sherman-alexie-shakes-up-university-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/03/22/sherman-alexie-shakes-up-university-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author Sherman Alexie, who writes of his life as a Spokane Indian, spoke at Western Connecticut State University recently, bringing his edgy, self-observant, funny and profane stories about being an Indian, the act of writing, and various absurdities of life. If you only read spy novels, you haven’t heard of this guy. But he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Elizabeth Alexander speaks poetically about issues of race</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/03/03/elizabeth-alexander-speaks-poetically-about-issues-of-race/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/03/03/elizabeth-alexander-speaks-poetically-about-issues-of-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barak Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Alexander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inauguration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Alexander, who was the poet at Barack Obama’s inauguration, came to WCSU and talked about writing, about inauguration day and, most important to me, about how African American history is America’s history. To begin, my youngest daughter was born in Ethiopia. I don’t think that means I should be more interested in race relations [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poster problem perplexes PR</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/02/14/poster-problem-perplexes-pr/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/02/14/poster-problem-perplexes-pr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[public relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One might think that my job as a WCSU public relations guy would be simple: Spend the day talking to intelligent and witty media people, apply my considerable writing skills to press releases, and then gaze out the window as I await coverage for the university. But there are other aspects to my employment at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The selling of the university</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/01/19/the-selling-of-the-university/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/01/19/the-selling-of-the-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boys and Girls Clubs of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public relations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Successful public relations executives know that a well-placed story about the organization one represents is the result of hard work, knowledge of the market and sensitive handling of the subject and the media. And sometimes dumb luck. Case-in-point here at Western Connecticut State University: Astute marketing professor Dr. John Cronin alerted me to an end-of-the-semester [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political thought flourishes, even at a university</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/01/02/political-thought-flourishes-even-at-a-university/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2011/01/02/political-thought-flourishes-even-at-a-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when people state that institutions of higher education are nothing but clubby havens of weepy-eyed liberals who are doing everything to overthrow America’s democracy and turn the U.S. into a socialist dictatorship. Sure, we have some of those. But we also have nut-job libertarians who think everything the government does is corrupt [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>D-3 basketball: Excellence without the attitude</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/12/10/d-3-basketball-excellence-without-the-attitude/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/12/10/d-3-basketball-excellence-without-the-attitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DaQuan Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Division III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Teel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing about small-school, Division III athletics is that good teams sneak up on you. We love our athletes here at WCSU because they are generally among the best students, none of them have star attitudes (they never appear on ESPN), and for the most part they blend in with the rest of us. So [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WCSU names Teaching Excellence Award winner</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/12/03/wcsu-names-teaching-excellence-award-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/12/03/wcsu-names-teaching-excellence-award-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[percussion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past four years, university provost Dr. Linda Rinker has recognized a professor who is a great teacher. Professors often win honors for their research and earn tenure partly through their work on committees and other commitments to the university, but the Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award is based on how a professor works with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WCSU students and the SF Giants: Winners!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/11/05/wcsu-students-and-the-sf-giants-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/11/05/wcsu-students-and-the-sf-giants-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifth District Congressional seat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Caligiuri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you are wondering how Mike Rollman fared in his quest for the truth during the recent election. Rollman, you will remember, is the political science student who authored a question about F-22 fighter jets that Professor Dr. Christopher Kukk asked of Fifth District Congressional candidates Sam Caligiuri, the Republican challenger, and Chris Murphy, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Student teaches politicians a thing or two</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/29/student-teaches-politicians-a-thing-or-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/29/student-teaches-politicians-a-thing-or-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The politicians I spoke to said the debate between Fifth District Congressional candidates earlier this week at the Portuguese Cultural Center was the best ever held in Danbury. A crowd filled the place and partisan supporters were raucous, with applause and shouts crisscrossing the hall. But Dr. Chris Kukk, the WCSU professor of political science [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Speaker talks about race &#8212; and it&#8217;s OK</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/22/speaker-talks-about-race-and-its-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/22/speaker-talks-about-race-and-its-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Imada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discussion of race]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Questions about race permeate U.S. society, and we haven’t figured out how to talk about them, as Juan Williams, the NPR correspondent, found out. NPR fired Williams after he said he worries about being blown up when he boards an airplane and sees “people who are in Muslim garb.” While most of us do our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Malloy responds</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/19/malloy-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/19/malloy-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Malloy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Malloy, the Democrat running for governor, apparently read my last post and, through his communications person Brian Durand, issued this statement. Recently, the Danbury News Times reported on a conversation I had with their editorial board, in which we discussed the pressures placed on some state schools due to our budget problems. The initial [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>WCSU: I&#8217;m saying we&#8217;re staying</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/15/wcsu-im-saying-were-staying/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/15/wcsu-im-saying-were-staying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Malloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public relations professional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A day in the life of a public relations professional: I was sitting at my desk behaving myself Thursday morning when I came across this statement in a News-Times article about Dan Malloy, the Democrat running for governor: “I hate Western Connecticut State University.” Actually, Malloy didn’t say that, but that’s how everyone at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Support veterans: Read &#8220;The Things They Carried&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/08/support-veterans-read-the-things-they-carried/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/10/08/support-veterans-read-the-things-they-carried/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Things They Carried]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim O’Brien, the author of “The Things They Carried,” is going to speak at WCSU at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, as part of “One Book, One Community,” the project to bring people together through books. Many other “One Book” events are taking place throughout the month. You can see them here. What “The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stumbling toward the light</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/30/stumbling-toward-the-light/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/30/stumbling-toward-the-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teach writing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one has ever mistaken me for a genius. Piquantly humorous? Yes. Ruggedly handsome? Check. Smartest one in the room? Well, at least he makes us laugh. But I’ll have you know I might be changing some minds. The folks at WCSU give me permission to teach a writing course each semester and at the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Must go to faculty author reading. Repeat: Must go &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/23/must-go-to-faculty-author-reading-repeat-must-go/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/23/must-go-to-faculty-author-reading-repeat-must-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banned Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my job is to plan events on campus, a task for which I was once woefully unprepared. You would think that a newspaper editor, in charge of bringing a new product from concept to street corner every day of the year, would be good at planning other types of happenings, most of which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>I always wanted to be on radio</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/17/i-always-wanted-to-be-on-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/17/i-always-wanted-to-be-on-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of the university, Jim Schmotter, had a great idea: He would host a 15-minute show on the student-run station, WXCI. He would interview professors and other people on campus who make Western Connecticut State University a vibrant, interesting — no, fascinating — model of higher education. Actually, I was a skeptical that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career advice: Don&#8217;t be in charge of the website</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/10/career-advice-dont-be-in-charge-of-the-website/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/10/career-advice-dont-be-in-charge-of-the-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Muroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[website redesign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This cartoon by Randall Munroe has apparently been posted in college offices across the country amid great mirth, which is remarkable because higher education administrators generally are as funny as a bacterial infection. At Western Connecticut State University, the cartoon’s message is also contributing to change. Among my duties here is oversight of the WCSU [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Building a Bridge</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/03/building-a-bridge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/09/03/building-a-bridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building a Bridge to Improve Student Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college-ready]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remedial classes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I attended a state university, many of my fellow students had to take remedial classes before they could enroll in the grown-up courses. I assumed they were stupid. But I was wrong; it turns out that it was their teachers, and the system in which the teachers worked, that weren’t getting the job done. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>A new year begins</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/27/a-new-year-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/27/a-new-year-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new semester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first-year students who live on campus have hauled in their suitcases and stuffed animals to set up house in preparation for the fall semester and they have been officially tucked in and welcomed to Western Connecticut State University. As I understand it, there was a time not too long ago when parents would pull [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Read this book</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/18/join-one-book-one-community/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/18/join-one-book-one-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One book one community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Things They Carried]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year WCSU, Danbury Library and the Danbury Public Schools try to get as many people as possible to read the same book at once. The program, called One Book, One Community, is intended to create a common reading experience and make us all feel good — a book club writ large. At the university, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurses at war</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/11/nurses-at-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/11/nurses-at-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing in war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[College professors are expected to be scholars for all of their working lives. They do research in their area of expertise and publish articles and books. Some of the research is important but boring. Some is interesting but narrow — it doesn’t have much to do with the rest of us. But the work of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great ideas start small</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/02/great-ideas-start-small/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/08/02/great-ideas-start-small/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young Writers Conference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lynne Paris-Purtle is not only alliterative but also gives direct answers and moves busily among the crowd as she seeks to corral 50 middle- and high school students, which is what she was doing when I met her last week during the Young Writers Conference that she organized at the university. It was the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year Two: More great stuff</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/07/27/year-two-more-great-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/07/27/year-two-more-great-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Steinmetz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish to congratulate my readers. It has been a full year since the first posting of this blog and you have been fulsome in your praise and resolute in your support. I wasn’t sure how it would work out, to be honest. The pressure to produce (nearly) every week is annoying and it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCSU PR guy influences news organizations</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/06/11/wcsu-pr-guy-influences-news-organizations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/06/11/wcsu-pr-guy-influences-news-organizations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carly Fiornia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Steinhauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meg Whitman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I commented in a post a while back about the troubling trend of news organizations that write themselves into knots trying to explain why sources sometimes refuse to talk to them on the record. They say they protect someone’s identity so the person “could speak freely” or because they “did not want to be named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Rell to other universities: Too bad you’re not WCSU</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/31/gov-rell-to-other-universities-too-bad-you%e2%80%99re-not-wcsu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/31/gov-rell-to-other-universities-too-bad-you%e2%80%99re-not-wcsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor M. Jodi Rell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nursing shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a fact of life that news people are often at odds with everyone else. That state of affairs suits the personalities of many in the news business, including me. Although in my circle I was sometimes considered to be soft, my journalistic bonafides were righteous; many newsworthy people despised me. Shortly after I left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyclef Jean Is A Hit!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/23/wyclef-jean-is-a-hit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/23/wyclef-jean-is-a-hit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commencement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyclef Jean]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out Wyclef Jean is a sweetheart. My bias is that famous rich people are going to have an attitude, but from the moment Wyclef, as he insisted everyone call him, got out of his car at the Westside Campus Center to prepare for WCSU’s undergraduate commencement, he shook hands, talked to professors who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hazards of the Profession</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/14/hazards-of-the-profession/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/05/14/hazards-of-the-profession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking across the campus on a warm spring day is one of my small pleasures: the flowering trees, the historic buildings, the strong young people exercising their vocabularies. I make my way from Point A to Point B, a short and relaxing break. A professor is walking toward me. I can’t remember her name. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parking is Easy at WCSU</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/04/15/parking-is-easy-at-wcsu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/04/15/parking-is-easy-at-wcsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine said recently that WCSU has excellent events on campus and he would consider attending — except that he can’t quite figure out where to park or how to get around once he gets here. It may be that he likes his lounge chair and beer more than any type of exercise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of Hubble</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/04/06/the-heart-of-hubble/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/04/06/the-heart-of-hubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fine guidance sensors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMAX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["There are a few more tweaks that have to be done (since the repair mission that installed a new fine guidance sensor) but they are very well aligned because of the latches. And, oh yeah, we made the latches, too."
-- Linda Abramowicz-Reed, systems engineer at Goodrich ISR]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Name Change</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/24/blog-name-change-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/24/blog-name-change-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My handlers at Hearst Newspapers, which publishes this blog, suggested the other day that I change the name of “Steal This Blog” so that it better identifies the subject about which I usually write: Western Connecticut State University. As you will remember, I lifted the original name from Abbie Hoffman who wrote “Steal This Book.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit from a writing genius</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/16/visit-from-a-writing-genius/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/16/visit-from-a-writing-genius/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen O'Neill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Helen O’Neill is a petite, will o’-the-wisp of a woman with an Irish accent and complexion, topped off with fair red hair. She is also a stubborn cuss. I believe both her heritage and her personality have contributed to her status as one of the most amazing writers you might ever have the pleasure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Details, details</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/11/details-details/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/03/11/details-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WCSU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The university invited me to teach a writing class because of the vast knowledge I gained in my newspapering years and my obvious skill as a journalist, writer and leader. I said yes and soon was struck by the terror of standing in front of a class with nothing to say. That won’t do, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCSU Students Are Impressive</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/23/wcsu-students-are-impressive/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/23/wcsu-students-are-impressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Greenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Greenberg is a friend of Western Connecticut State University and a friend of mine. Right now, I appreciate especially that he has written this week’s blog for me. Here is Steve’s report from a recent visit to campus: “Was up at the campus wed night for our Ives board meeting, yes, I signed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOR THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, I WILL WRITE A CORRECTION</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/18/for-the-hubble-space-telescope-i-will-write-a-correction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/18/for-the-hubble-space-telescope-i-will-write-a-correction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Connecticut State University]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone who was on-scene during the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope, and who now counts herself among the legions of my dedicated readers, let me know that my last column did not live up to my usual high standards for accuracy and completeness. My reporting implied that the Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Danbury was responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOR THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, I WILL DO ANYTHING</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/11/for-the-hubble-space-telescope-i-will-do-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/11/for-the-hubble-space-telescope-i-will-do-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danbury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-six years ago I was a reporter for The News-Times and Paul Estefan was one of the people in charge of moving the mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope from the Perkin-Elmer Corp. building where it was created to Danbury Airport and then to California for integration into the telescope superstructure. In the newsroom, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAY 1: NOT A DISASTER</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/01/day-1-not-a-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/02/01/day-1-not-a-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pagan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Report from first day of class in the writing course I teach: One student tells us he is a pagan. I thought there were lots of pagans around but he says he is the only pagan he knows. As he explained to the class, it’s easy to keep a low profile as a pagan because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPENING DAY</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/24/opening-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/24/opening-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring semester begins this week, which for those of us who will be standing in front of the classroom raises a question: Will our students learn anything? The old pros are probably confident. They have seen enough semesters play out to know that their students will inevitably gain some new knowledge and skills over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANALYSIS SHOWS COMPARISON OF RELATIVE VALUES OF YALE vs WCSU FAVOR WESTERN</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/18/analysis-shows-comparison-of-relative-values-of-yale-vs-wcsu-favor-western/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/18/analysis-shows-comparison-of-relative-values-of-yale-vs-wcsu-favor-western/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crouch quadruplets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danbury High School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing against Yale – it’s a fine school – but Yale’s got nothing on Western Connecticut State University when it come to educating quadruplets. A local family recently made news when it was announced that Yale cleverly offered admission to four students, all seniors at Danbury High School and all born the same day to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TO SAVE JOURNALISM, SAVE ADVERTISING</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/04/to-save-journalism-save-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2010/01/04/to-save-journalism-save-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Kristoff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the conversation has shifted from “Can traditional media be saved?” to “What’s next?” many of us are suggesting ideas. Not surprisingly, some-tried-and-true basics are returning to the forefront. For example, generations of editors have ordered writers to “tell a story” when they report an article and to “use people” as examples in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOURNING THE END OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/15/mourning-the-end-of-the-bill-of-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/15/mourning-the-end-of-the-bill-of-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gutzman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many things I have discovered since joining WCSU is that the general assumption about college professors is wrong: They are not all wimpy liberal apologists for urban terrorists and they certainly don’t speak with one voice. One professor at Western who has gotten some notoriety lately is Dr. Kevin Gutzman, associate professor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO LOOK GREAT WHEN THE TV CAMERAS SHOW UP</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/13/how-to-look-great-when-the-tv-cameras-show-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/13/how-to-look-great-when-the-tv-cameras-show-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television news]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not a good sign when your friend sends you a message on Facebook that says “Saw you on TV!” An acceptable message would be, “Saw you on TV and you looked great!” The lack of “you looked great” means that your friend noticed the area below your right eye was twitching spasmodically as you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT CHRIS KUKK CAN TEACH MEN</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/03/what-chris-kukk-can-teach-men/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/12/03/what-chris-kukk-can-teach-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Kukk is without a doubt an excellent teacher, but what I notice is that when he walks into a room the women go all doe-eyed and gather around him and laugh at his stories, ignoring anyone else who might be in the vicinity. When he leaves, they are cranky. This is despite his haircut, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EVERYONE HAS A BOSS</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/28/everyone-has-a-boss/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/28/everyone-has-a-boss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfield University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a newspaper editor I got a call late one night from my boss, the publisher. He was concerned about an article we were preparing for the next day’s paper about a car dealer who happened to buy a lot of advertising. We had heard the car dealer planned to buy another business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBATE IS A BLOOD SPORT &#8212; METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/20/debate-is-a-blood-sport-metaphorically-speaking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/20/debate-is-a-blood-sport-metaphorically-speaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The intelligentsia and political class have been gnawing lately on the idea that higher education should be a three-year affair. Get ‘em in and get ‘em out, they say, as a way to cut down on what individuals, or their parents, pay for a university diploma. Some students undoubtedly would do fine with a three-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCSU BASKETBALL WOMEN START SEASON WITH A TEAR-JERKER</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/13/wcsu-basketball-women-start-season-with-a-tear-jerker/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/13/wcsu-basketball-women-start-season-with-a-tear-jerker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WestConn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to do something about crying in public. Other people can weep and snuffle all they want; it’s me I’m talking about. I know this is uncomfortable to read. Hey, it’s great to be sensitive, but when you see a guy blubbering just because the Cub Scouts have walked by with the flag, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CUSTOMER SERVICE 101</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/08/customer-service-101/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/08/customer-service-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe in providing great customer service — at home and at work — but it isn’t always easy. On Friday I took a day off, with the idea that I would clean up the garden in preparation for winter. That morning, my wife asked if I would pick up her prescription at a local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESIDENT OBAMA I FEEL YOUR PAIN</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/01/president-obama-i-feel-your-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/11/01/president-obama-i-feel-your-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad hair day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a feminist, so naturally I am offended at the possibility, suggested in the past week, that President Obama is a sexist pig who excludes women from his professional inner circle. My outrage is tempered, however, by this admission: In years past, even after my conversion to feminism, I did occasionally engage in behavior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WESTCONNS FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR MAKES IT BIG</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/25/westconns-fulbright-scholar-makes-it-big/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/25/westconns-fulbright-scholar-makes-it-big/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At a party the other day a friend of mine said he regularly reads “Steal This Blog,” and I beamed. Then he commented that some of my posts read “like you wrote them in 30 seconds.” “Well,” I replied, “if you knew anything about writing on the Internet you would understand that blogging takes many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIVE ME THE BALD GUY EVERY TIME</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/17/all-hail-the-wise-and-powerful-jeff/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/17/all-hail-the-wise-and-powerful-jeff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All writers hope that readers will adore them based solely on the greatness of their talent, as expressed in their prose or poetry. Most of us acknowledge, though, that we have to market ourselves, too, if we want others to read our stuff. That’s why the bloggers on this site badger Jeff Bustraan — the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCORE! UNLESS IT&#8217;S ABOUT FOOD</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/11/score-unless-its-about-food/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/11/score-unless-its-about-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gourmet Magazine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When one compares online porn to that available in magazines (people tell me) the online variety easily comes out on top. (Ha!) The same cannot be said of food writing — and this I know from personal experience as a consumer. I reflect upon this fact, of course, because of the demise of Gourmet Magazine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCSU DISCUSSION ON RACE IN AMERICA</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/08/wcsu-discussion-on-race-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/08/wcsu-discussion-on-race-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Louis Gates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my son’s first day of work as a waiter, he got a lesson in racial politics. The restaurant was in a section of Washington, D.C., where most of the patrons happened to be African American and Latino. When he presented one customer her bill she protested and said he had told her that Corona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DANBURY TALKS ABOUT HENRY LOUIS GATES</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/03/danbury-talks-about-henry-louis-gates/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/10/03/danbury-talks-about-henry-louis-gates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even I, as a relatively educated and enlightened though admittedly white male, thought maybe things changed when we got a black president. I thought we had gotten to the point where, while we would still notice skin color, it might not affect how we interacted with each other. Obviously, I was wrong. I base this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TROJAN WOMEN: u r ok</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/27/trojan-women-u-r-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/27/trojan-women-u-r-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes bad things happen at a place like WestConn. Last week, a student was hit by a car while crossing White Street at the Midtown campus. She is expected to recover fully but she hit her head on the windshield of the car and was in the hospital for a couple of days. Not good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOB HUNTING ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG AND RESTLESS</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/20/job-hunting-advice-for-the-young-and-restless/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/20/job-hunting-advice-for-the-young-and-restless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[job hunting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a turn of events that leaves members of my family incredulous, people sometimes ask me for advice. The latest was Bill, a 22-year-old friend of my son’s who works as a newspaper reporter in Connecticut and considered applying for a reporting job at a bigger paper. He knows that I used to work for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOCAL WRITER EXPERIENCES UNIVERSAL ANXIETY</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/16/local-writer-experiences-universal-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/16/local-writer-experiences-universal-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect most of you readers think any idiot can craft witty and intelligent prose like this. I am proof that you are correct. I made mistakes in each of my two most recent blog postings. They are embarrassing because they were spelling errors, and I’m wondering if I’m losing my mind. The first, unbelievably, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANONYMOUS SOURCE SAVES THE DAY IN DANBURY</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/13/anonymous-source-saves-the-day-in-danbury/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/13/anonymous-source-saves-the-day-in-danbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous sources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that news organizations must be careful about quoting too many sources anonymously. Readers gauge a report’s veracity partly on the quality of its sources. And every once in a while, a media outlet gets sloppy and really steps in it: The Washington Post in 1981 admitted reporter Janet Cooke made up a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>DISNEY ROCKS WESTCONN</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/09/disney-rocks-westconn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/09/disney-rocks-westconn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As she strode to her car at 10 p.m., following her talk to an audience of 500 at WestConn Tuesday, Abby Disney related that people often proclaim their amazement that she is “down to earth.” “I think, What else would I be?” Disney said. Oh, I don’t know. Maybe a snobby dilettante. Because that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INN-diana, where the winds come sweepin&#8217; down the plains!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/05/inn-diana-where-the-winds-come-sweepin-down-the-plains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/09/05/inn-diana-where-the-winds-come-sweepin-down-the-plains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marshmallow cream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A report on the Steinmetz family vacation (Hey, you try to come up with a fresh topic each week.) My expectations were low for Indiana as a good place for a vacation. But my oldest daughter had been invited to a wedding near Fort Wayne and as we contemplated letting her drive with four other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAVE THIS BLOG</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/30/save-this-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/30/save-this-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: In place of my regular blog, I pass along this memo, delivered to me by a friend in the newspaper world. Aug. 11, 2009 To: All concerned departments From: Albert H. McKinney Vice president, Reactive Services Hearst Connecticut Newspaper Group Response required Am I the only one who has noticed a problem with one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A DISNEY TO SPEAK AT WCSU</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/23/a-disney-to-speak-at-wcsu/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/23/a-disney-to-speak-at-wcsu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you are born into a famous, rich family? If you’re Paris Hilton, you engage in endless and embarrassing self-promotion. If you are Abigail Disney, you figure out how to give away a lot of that money to make the world a better place. You get one guess as to which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NINETEEN OUT OF 50, BABY!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/09/nineteen-out-of-50-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/09/nineteen-out-of-50-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celtics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations and thank you to all my faithful readers! You have made “Steal This Blog” wildly successful. According to Hearst Newspapers’ methodology, it is the 19th most-read of their 50 Connecticut blogs over the past four weeks. I’m sure there are many variables that go into the success or failure rate, including, for instance, the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>IT&#8217;S THE PROFIT MARGIN, STUPID</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/02/its-the-profit-margin-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/08/02/its-the-profit-margin-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest insight is that the Internet has made things easier, less expensive, more accessible and faster for consumers. But consumers will no longer have jobs because the Internet has destroyed so many business models. The movie industry is the most recent to foresee its demise as people start to watch movies online instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>REMEMBERING DAVE HARPLE</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/26/remembering-dave-harple/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/26/remembering-dave-harple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that struck me about Dave Harple’s parents was how normal they seemed. By the time I met them they were white-haired, a little shy at first but pleasant and funny when you warmed them up. From Dave, I knew that they did the things good parents do. For instance, they helped Dave convert [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>WHAT REPORTERS THINK</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/21/what-reporters-think/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/21/what-reporters-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/?p=6</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What Reporters Think I used to work in a newsroom and now work as a public relations professional. The skills, knowledge and abilities are similar, but the outlook is — well, I’ll just say it’s different. As a reporter and editor, I was imbued with a sense that not only was what I did important, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbie Hoffman and me</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/15/abbie-hoffman-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/steinmetz/2009/07/15/abbie-hoffman-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Steal This Blog” made perfect sense to me as the name for my blog. Then I mentioned it to a bunch of people who were born after 1985. Instead of knowing smiles, they gave me blank stares. Here’s the explanation. Abbie Hoffman was a leader of the Yippies, or Youth International Party, a group of [...]]]></description>
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