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Two yes votes to continue, with no one dissenting, on my last Linkage post. Looks like this thing will be a thing, at least for as long as I do the thing.

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It was a good week for dancing mayors. Boston Ballet received props from Thomas M. Menino, whose office of arts, tourism and special events waived theater rental fees for two free performances by both of the company’s ensembles, plus students, on March 23. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announced that its 35th-anniversary season kickoff will be dedicated to Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, said he hopes that a May 18 kickoff for Big Dance 2012, choreographed by Wayne McGregor and possibly the next Biggest Simultaneous Dance Ever, inspires kids worldwide to participate in the arts long after the Olympic Games are over.

It was a good week for headaches at local universities. More than 125 top faculty members at the University of Illinois signed off on a vote of no confidence in school president Michael Hogan sent to U of I trustees. Hogan “lacks the values, commitments, management style, ethics, and even manners, needed to lead this University,” the letter stated (via @ColonelTribune). Protesting tuition hikes up for a board of trustees vote today, DePaul University students staged a sit-in dubbed #OccupyDePaul that began Thursday. Here’s a Storify from The DePaulia. Developing.

“We are so busy doing things with the work,” wrote C.S. Lewis in An Experiment in Criticism (1961), “that we give it too little chance to work on us. Thus increasingly we meet only ourselves.” It’s an important thought that music critic John Ephland includes at the end of his post for the NEA’s blog from last August, “Why We Still Need Professional Arts Critics,” which I’d missed until Tuesday. Via @magickaleva, who also shared a link to this gem from Charles M. Blow: “Rick Santorum wants to bring sexy back…to the 1950s.”

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