Honestly, you can just read the textbook chapter, copy your friend's notes, or, if you have a tech-savvy professor, watch the lecture she recorded and posted on the class website.
"It mattered a lot that these were savvy politicians," Professor Powe said.
"You don't necessarily think of Russians as savvy investors," says Barry W. Ickes, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and financial director at the New Economic School in Moscow.
She is a member of the Sinclair Advisory Council, is the sexual wellness advocate for Savvy, and is an adjunct professor at American University, Argosy University and Penn State University.
"It could be that an instant gratification message makes mobile users, who tend to be more tech savvy, leery about the site," said Professor S. Shyam Sundar.
That day, the professor was a vision of sartorial savvy in a charcoal Dolce & Gabbana suit with burgundy stripes, a Kenneth Cole dress shirt, an Armani necktie and Gucci moccasins.
Another savvy science watcher, computational biologist Kelly Suter, an assistant professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, has spied real promise for early-career scientists who are good enough, clever enough--and lucky enough--to benefit from the sudden money.
There are numbers of tech-savvy and generally adventurous professors just as there are numbers of tradition-respecting university trustees, but too many of the Hedgefunders want to reinvent the campus on the Internet while the Hedgehog faculty, rolling into a passive-aggressive ball with protruding quills, wants to sit stock-still.
If Google did manipulate users in a significant way, researchers and politically savvy people would notice, according to Ryan Kennedy, a political science professor at the University of Houston who's currently doing research on how Facebook affects voting.
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen sneeringly calls this the "church of the savvy" approach, and it explains a lot about what is wrong with the national political press.
