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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".
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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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