Huh?

Bob Griebel wrote:

> Dr. Bob Hamilton wrote:
>
>> Having been at Berkeley for a number of years, it seems our
>> list does do not need an unfounded "huge chauvanistic coup".
>>  
>>
>
> Bob, I can't avoid the guilty verdict for mixing the serious with the 
> nonserious without obligatory use of smilies, ... but I really hate 
> those little yellow circles.  No smilies are needed after comments 
> about how the give and take of this list is useful even on 
> lighthearted subjects.  And any one-time Wolverine infatuation with 
> Berkeley was either from respect or jealousy or both, I never quite 
> understood it. 
> When I was in business school there wasn't an ethics course offered.  
> Now many are and I presume some are required.  I haven't noticed a 
> marked increase in ethical behavior in the business world, but it's  
> good that business schools now demonstrate a belief that ethics count 
> and put students through a discussion of principles.  I don't think 
> that should differ for any part of a school's activities, but I don't 
> think I've seen developments in thinking about sports and 
> sportsmanship over the same period.  I'd say the accepted model 
> remains the good-old-boy exercise of all the domination we're capable 
> of.  The cause of chauvanistic we're-rightism seems more than 
> sufficiently fostered by other sources, but even as behavioral science 
> becomes better understood, I don't see us becoming more civilized in 
> the way we conduct sports and fanship, which influences a significant 
> part of human behavior.  Discussions about how rules on fan behavior 
> are imposed simply remind me that schools could do more to consciously 
> address that thinking.  It's not a mandatory discussion topic, but a 
> worthy one if anyone is interested.  That's what I meant.
>
> Bob
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