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