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Berkeley and the Marines
jhocking:
In the classes I teach, most of my students call me Joe, a couple call me Joseph, but I rarely get Mr. Hocking past the first day.
negative creep:
That just means you fail at being an authority figure, Mr Hocking.
KharBevNor:
My thoughts on the original topic of this thread have been made clear I think! The tl;dr version would be "elected local government officials have a perfect right to exclude anything they find morally objectionable from their town if they vote for it democratically; turning young people into boot-licking killing machines can be considered morally objectionable."
The whole military history thing I could not resist because I have a tragically low tolerance for untrue bullshit and a reasonably comprehensive knowledge of 20th century history, and especially international politics in the specific context of the first world war, second world war and cold war. I also find it rather sad that there are people who actually believe that there is such a thing as an altruistic war. Altruism is a pretext for war, not a cause for war. Wars are fought to maintain and enhance the power of the nations involved, that is to acquire or defend territory, resources or spheres of political and/or economic influence. The US fought in Korea and Vietnam because they wanted to shore up the geopolitical dominance of the pacific rim they acquired when they defeated Japan. They fought in World War One because it was disrupting transatlantic trade. I could go on.
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--- Quote from: negative creep on 13 Feb 2008, 13:31 ---That just means you fail at being an authority figure, Mr Hocking.
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If I remember correctly, Joe teaches electronic art or design and I don't think I've ever called any of my art profs/adjuncts by anything other than their first name. Why? Because they are that cool.
KharBevNor:
I don't think anyone at university level addresses their tutors formally, do they? Then again, I do myself go to art college.
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