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Prof. Jay VanderVeen

@antillesarch.bsky.social

From the Aztecs to Zombies, I teach North American cultures to Midwestern students. Sometimes with a tropical drink in hand, sometimes underwater. Newest gig is teaching teachers how to teach.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

@michelmartinnpr.bsky.social correction: Northwestern has passed I.U. for most losses. www.thedailyhoosier.com/indiana-foot...

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Indiana football no longer has the most losses in Division I history

IU football lost the first game it ever played on Oct. 25, 1887 to Franklin. And the losses just kept piling up. Much was made when Indiana became the first Division I college football team to lose…

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Oregon vs Penn State is the perfect match-up, sartorially speaking. The Ducks (really, they are peacocks) never repeat a uniform combo during the season. PSU is blue and white. No design, no logo, no frills.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

View of Paris, Winslow Homer (1867) Horizontal view over Paris from a parapet of the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral in the foreground, where a man holds out a wishbone to entice a cat crouched on the extreme outer end of a gargoyle.

Man tries to lure cat from gargoyle atop Notre Dame.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Cats exploit every loophole. This one knows she can’t be on the table, but she wants to be involved with my morning coffee.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Indiana University Board of Trustees voted Friday to name the planned athletics center on the Indiana University Indianapolis campus after the late James T. Morris. The James T. Morris Arena will include a basketball/volleyball court with seats for 4,500 patrons. It’s the Jim.

Sign for the James T Morrison Arena, or the Jim.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I may not have a great Rate Your Professor score, but I’m a five on wikiFeet.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I wish the buffering issue was resolved so I could watch Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs. Rand Paul.

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Typical series of events in our household: 1. Turn on Netflix for Tyson fight; 2. See it’s later so watch GBBO; 3. See it’s Seventies Week; 4. Decide to make period drink; 5. Find Galliano from parent in closet…

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Wicked (Broadway musical) runtime is 2:45. Wicked (movie) runtime is 2:41. And it’s PART 1! I’m no math prof, but…

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Prof. Jay VanderVeen @antillesarch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer." — Paula Poundstone I feel you, rn, cat.

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