tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58214292011-04-21T15:29:38.570-07:00Life at the academia.Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13924263111346768253noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821429.post-1113255544879661452005-04-11T14:38:00.000-07:002005-04-11T22:36:22.766-07:00

The following is a reprint of a post I published in 2003. I thought it was the most fitting post to leave up as the last one on this blog. Thank you to all my regular readers. The game's now over. Nobody won. If you scroll to the very bottom of this page, you can read "a final word."Code of ConductHere's a second (revised) attempt at a code of conduct, with thanks to those folks who provided

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"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke"Ditto for women." - Academy Girl"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr."The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the

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I created this blog because, after spending a considerable portion of my life and career in academia, I've realized that it's not working -- not for most of the students and not for most of the faculty. In 1996, Professor Emeritus Kekes at SUNY Albany published an article in The Monist entitled "Academic Corruption." This phrase sounds kind of bombastic, doesn't it -- corruption, like it was

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