Tagged: CC204

Analects of the Core #81

February 14, 2011 at 10:32 am

Affirmative Action performs acts of “corrective justice.” Public policy is used to compensate members of a deprived group for prior losses and for gains unfairly achieved by others that resulted from prior governmental action.  Corrective justice, the legal philosopher Jules Coleman has noted, is different from a fair allocation of goods.  Rather, it identifies interventions [...]

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Introducing the new, revised CC204

February 8, 2011 at 5:52 pm

The faculty in Core Social Sciences have introduced an exciting new version of CC204 (second-semester Social Sciences) on the theme of “Inequality.” Prof. Thornton Lockwood provided the following description of the course: Over the last two years, major changes have been going on with the second semester of Core Social Sciences. In the fall semester [...]

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Are you for surreal?!

February 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Mr. Victrola Cola: I got this great window cleaner. Cleans good and doesn’t streak. Smells bad, though. Cleans good, but smells bad. Putney Swope: As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We’ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on [...]

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