John Gerdy

Cheer UAB’s Courageous Decision

Cheer UAB’s courageous leadership in exiting football: guest opinion uab By John Gerdy, Published December 6, 2014 in Birmingham News – See Online Article Here As the entire city now knows, after a campus-wide study, UAB made the decision to discontinue its football program. President Ray Watts and the university’s board and leadership team should […]

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A New Word for the English Language: “Bandwork”

A New Word for the English  Language Each year, Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary identifies “new” words to be added to their dictionary. This year, for example, “hashtag”, ‘selfie”, “fracking” and “crowdfunding”, among others, were added. Such words are recognized as being “official” as a result of them becoming commonly used and recognized. Generally, they begin

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To Blog or Not To Blog

Getting Started: My first “Blog” To “blog” or not to “blog”, that is the question. Of course, that begs the question, “What exactly is blogging?” There are others who are better equipped to answer that, but from what I can tell, it’s just writing about various topics on a semi-regular basis. By that definition, I’ve

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