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Huh?
Bob Griebel wrote:
> Dr. Bob Hamilton wrote:
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>> 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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