Two awesome things

1) I ran our end-of-year stats yesterday, and discovered that during the 2007-2008 academic year, the ARC held 1337 tutoring sessions. We are officially leet.

2) Yesterday, a student asked me the most amazing question about citing sources. When citing the online version of a print source, you cite it as you'd cite the print source, but then add the URL at the end. Thus,

If I read it on paper:

Krug, M. (2008, April 30). CMU-Q students studying migrant workers' woes. Qatar Tribune, p. 15.

If I read it online:

Krug, M. (2008, April 30). CMU-Q students studying migrant workers' woes. Qatar Tribune, p. 15. Retrieved May 2, 2008 from http://qatar.livejournal.com/287452.html.

The student's question is this: if you are citing a movie that you (illegally) downloaded, do you cite the torrent file?

I cannot find this issue addressed in any citation guidelines.

Death sentence for maid death

A woman was just sentenced to death in Qatar for murdering her maid last year. I don't remember if I reported on the death at the time, but it was a gruesome one: one of the maid's fingernails had been removed, and then she was beaten to death with a hot iron.

I do not support the death penalty under any circumstances, but I have to confess that a small part of me is glad to see the Qatari courts taking maid abuse seriously for a change.