[OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by Greg Berge
[OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: December 27, 2002 11:19PM
I got the Arts School flyer this month and it details changes in the graduation distribution requirements. Essentially, the categories we all know and love (social sciences, humanties, etc...) have been reshuffled into new categories with British Silly Party names (including my favorite, "Cognition, Knowledge, and Moral Reasoning," which sounds like something from Thoreau's days at the Harvard Divinity School).
Note the College also now offers a concentration in "Inequality."
They're against it.
So my question is, does anybody familiar with what's going on on the hill these days care to comment on the university politics behind it? Please, no broad-ranging rants about "what has academia come to these days" and yadda yadda. What would be a lot more interesting, if anybody knows details, is who won what pissing contest in what departments and how come?
Private email is fine, though a public airing would be a lot funnier.
Note the College also now offers a concentration in "Inequality."
They're against it.
So my question is, does anybody familiar with what's going on on the hill these days care to comment on the university politics behind it? Please, no broad-ranging rants about "what has academia come to these days" and yadda yadda. What would be a lot more interesting, if anybody knows details, is who won what pissing contest in what departments and how come?
Private email is fine, though a public airing would be a lot funnier.
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Scott Kominkiewicz '84 (---)
Date: December 27, 2002 11:55PM
I don't know the answer, but I have another question. I received the newsletter today, and I read the dean's message. In it, he said that he previously announced his "involuntary resignation effective June 30, 2003." I'm curious to know the skinny on why the dean is resigning involuntarily. Another pissing contest?
The new categories don't bother me one bit. Just as Classical Lit is no longer a graduation requirement, I see no problem with re-shuffling the deck every few decades. I was amused though with the foreign language requirement, which seems pretty much unchanged except for the omission of terms like "proficiency." (I'm so grateful that I don't have to go through that again.) )
The new categories don't bother me one bit. Just as Classical Lit is no longer a graduation requirement, I see no problem with re-shuffling the deck every few decades. I was amused though with the foreign language requirement, which seems pretty much unchanged except for the omission of terms like "proficiency." (I'm so grateful that I don't have to go through that again.) )
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 12:15AM
I'm told by my fiancee that the change from "Women's Studies" to "Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies" is merely us marching lockstep with Princeton (albeit behind a few beats). Apparently, "Women's Studies" now has approximately the same hemline currency as "Oriental Studies."
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: DeltaOne81 (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 01:31AM
Not a lot of information out there regarding the resignation, but the Sun had some relatively thorough coverage...
[cornelldailysun.com]
[cornelldailysun.com]
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Scott Kominkiewicz '84 (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 12:01PM
Interesting article from the Sun. Thanks for posting it. I think that Provost Biddy Martin should become the dean so that we could enjoy perhaps the funniest joke in Rodney Dangerfield's movie "Back to School."
Also, why did the Sun not capitalize the department name of Romance Studies at the end of the article? Beej, do you know if this is the Sun's typical style?
Also, why did the Sun not capitalize the department name of Romance Studies at the end of the article? Beej, do you know if this is the Sun's typical style?
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: littleredfan (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 12:24PM
I think the miscapitalization was an editorial error. Usually they do capitalize department names.
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Beeeej (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 12:28PM
Editorial sloppiness? Yes, that's very much the Sun's typical style.
Beeeej
Beeeej
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: December 28, 2002 05:59PM
Do not bring down the dreadful wrath of the Sunnies upon you, Beeeej. This I have done in the past, but I have learned.
Editorial note: the Daily Sun is a fine paper and please direct all of your hatemail to [elf.hockey.cornell.edu]. Thank you.
Editorial note: the Daily Sun is a fine paper and please direct all of your hatemail to [elf.hockey.cornell.edu]. Thank you.
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: jy3 (---)
Date: January 04, 2003 12:17PM
so i have a question...
why do i not get this a&s flyer?
i think i graduated
why do i not get this a&s flyer?
i think i graduated
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: marty (---)
Date: January 04, 2003 01:07PM
Yes but you graduated in the very hip PC but now oh so old "pre-neo feminist ultra moderne" era.
Face it - it's time to go back to school. Everything you know is wrong. The dean now has learned his lesson and is throwing in the towel.
Tradition sucks, history sucks, and genteel Division One Shuffle Board is just around the corner.
Face it - it's time to go back to school. Everything you know is wrong. The dean now has learned his lesson and is throwing in the towel.
Tradition sucks, history sucks, and genteel Division One Shuffle Board is just around the corner.
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: January 04, 2003 01:44PM
While Cornell has been a lot of things, it has never been hip.
I started getting the A&S mailings after I went to their page and filled out the "yeah, bug me" form. This particular form of self-abuse is not automatic.
I started getting the A&S mailings after I went to their page and filled out the "yeah, bug me" form. This particular form of self-abuse is not automatic.
Re: [OT] What's with the Arts School distrib. changes?
Posted by: jy3 (---)
Date: January 04, 2003 07:12PM
gotcha. thanks greg
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