Posted: April 7th, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | 29 Comments »
Join us at the Mary Lou Williams Center for a Wednesday night tradition featuring Professor John Brown and his trio. Come enjoy free late-night snacks, bring your drink over from the Faculty Commons bar next door and listen to the sounds of jazz in the cool setting of the Mary Lou.
Co-sponsored by Duke University Union and the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Where: Mary Lou Williams Center (above The Loop in the West Union Building; enter through the door under the archway between the plaza and quad and walk up one flight of stairs)
When: 9:30pm – 12:30am
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Visit each of our homes/dorm rooms as they are (no cleaning up!)
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | 105 Comments »
Hot seat (one person is in the ‘hot seat’ and we ask them any question we want…they don’t necessarily have to answer…this could be played in the car!)
Campfire + songs
Name game (everyone puts a fake name [can be famous or just a random name] into a bowl and there is a process by which we attempt to guess who wrote what name)
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Painting the graffiti bridge.
Skill sharing workshop (get together and share one skill we each have).
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | 103 Comments »
Painting the graffiti bridge.
Skill sharing workshop (get together and share one skill we each have).
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Hot seat (one person is in the ‘hot seat’ and we ask them any question we want…they don’t necessarily have to answer…this could be played in the car!)
Campfire + songs
Name game (everyone puts a fake name [can be famous or just a random name] into a bowl and there is a process by which we attempt to guess who wrote what name)
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: SCIENTIFIC & QUASI-SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, Uncategorized | 89 Comments »
Stanley Milgram’s (Yale University psychologist) experiment with obedience can be described as follows: There are three individuals involved–the teacher, the learner, and the experimenter. The teacher is teaching the learner a set of words and, if the learner gets something wrong, the teacher has been instructed (and encouraged) by the experimenter to give the learner a shock. The shock treatment increases with every answer the learner gets wrong. The teacher was the only one who did not know what was going on in this experiment. The learner and experimenter were actors and the shocks were simulated.
Though some teachers stopped after a certain shock level or after the learner was shocked to the point of being unconscious, many of the teachers actually went on. Milgram wanted to experiment with people’s willingness to obey an authority figure.
I think these experiments are extremely interesting and disturbing. We all believe that we, ourselves, would never take part in such horrible actions but Milgram’s experiments show that human nature is a lot more universal than we thought.
http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/History/2003/stanley_milgram.htm
Posted: March 17th, 2009 | Author: RS | Filed under: RESPONSES-TO READINGS, Uncategorized | 93 Comments »
This article speaks to access to knowledge issues, intellectual property rights, and the role of the UN in promoting/regulating these fields. It also goes on to describe the entanglement of political ideology with opinions on intellectual property rights.
These are important dialogues to have, especially in an increasingly informational world where small ideas can transform societies. Good questions to ask are: why do we need international regulation of intellectual property issues? Who would write these treaties and who would the regulations best serve? Is the notion of “property rights” a universal value?
These are questions that I had for myself, and I am glad that the author addressed our emotional relationship to property rights issues. This pushes people to think of their basic motives in establishing regulated global intellectual property rights, whether these motives are profit, power, or philosophically oriented.
