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Principal Clarinet
2012-01-29 12:43:38 AM
Will it be graded on a curve ... or two ... or three?
RexTalionis
2012-01-29 09:30:07 AM
Aw, for cryin' out loud. I'm going to call the alumni association and tell them that I'm not going to donate anymore if they pull this kind of shiat.
Not that it'll do a hell of a lot of good, but it'll make me feel better.
Party Boy
2012-01-29 09:54:08 AM
That class is ripe for another Sokal
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Evaluation of Context-Free Grammar
Michelle Williams, Jay Z, LeToya Luckett, Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland
1 Introduction
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Our focus in this paper is not on whether spreadsheets and gigabit switches can cooperate to surmount this problem, but rather on exploring new collaborative technology (Vapor). On the other hand, this solution is never useful [31]. Unfortunately, this method is rarely outdated. Such a hypothesis is entirely an intuitive goal but is buffetted by prior work in the field. Combined with the UNIVAC computer, this outcome emulates a novel framework for the improvement of SCSI disks.
Another unproven aim in this area is the deployment of active networks. Continuing with this rationale, we view electrical engineering as following a cycle of four phases: deployment, location, prevention, and deployment. This follows from the development of congestion control. Vapor provides the visualization of Smalltalk. we emphasize that our algorithm provides interactive methodologies [31,20]. Obviously, our algorithm stores the study of symmetric encryption.
Our contributions are as follows. To start off with, we validate that the producer-consumer problem and SMPs are generally incompatible [31]. Continuing with this rationale, we understand how web browsers can be applied to the investigation of operating systems. Third, we disconfirm not only that virtual machines and congestion control can cooperate to solve this question, but that the same is true for gigabit switches [2].
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. To start off with, we motivate the need for DNS. we prove the emulation of Boolean logic. To address this quagmire, we motivate new multimodal modalities (Vapor), which we use to argue that the famous game-theoretic algorithm for the evaluation of interrupts by Bhabha et al. [24] is NP-complete. Next, we place our work in context with the related work in this area. In the end, we conclude.
RandomAxe
2012-01-29 10:23:16 AM
Tuition paying parents of Rutgers students now thrilled to hear that their kids can earn three credits taking Beyonce 101
Wait, are you saying Rutgers students are dumb enough that they need a class in how to take Beyonce? Or are you saying they can get credit for having sex with her?
Either way, this doesn't make much sense. And it's hard to believe those credits would transfer to a better school.
LewDux
2012-01-29 10:27:12 AM
rocky_howard
2012-01-29 10:42:02 AM
FTFA:
as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum.
And then they wonder why we think Feminism is a farking joke...
trailerpimp
2012-01-29 10:42:43 AM
Who is Beyonce and what does she do? And is JayZ a guy?
farkeruk
2012-01-29 10:48:20 AM
The value in this course is that you'll be able to deal with customers better as you hand over a big mac and fries.
Women's studies: a solution, looking for a problem.
donnielove
2012-01-29 10:57:46 AM
Asinine?
C'mon, dat ass is a 10.
GRCooper
2012-01-29 11:16:50 AM
This is a non-issue.
When I took a course on the U.S. Civil War in college what was I really learning? Critical thinking, analysis, writing, etc.
The subject matter was just something I was interested in, so it helped me to learn what I was *really* being taught.
s2s2s2
2012-01-29 11:22:19 AM
How to fake a pregnancy 101?
Marshmallow Jones
2012-01-29 11:28:57 AM
That's ok, this is the same institution that used university funds to have Snooki come speak.
Pretty much a joke school
Copper Spork
2012-01-29 11:35:21 AM
Is this the same group of feminists who are complaining that science is sexist ("the Principia should really be called Newton's Rape Manual" etc) because not enough women are doing it?
Apos
2012-01-29 11:49:36 AM
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That's ok, this is the same institution that used university funds to have Snooki come speak.
Pretty much a joke school
Indeed. Sadly,Georgetown University is offering a similar course on her hubby.
The My Little Pony Killer
2012-01-29 12:15:12 PM
Must be a party school.
Dragonduck
2012-01-29 12:59:03 PM
rocky_howard
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FTFA: as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum.
And then they wonder why we think Feminism is a farking joke...
I hate this shiat because it makes feminism and studies of actual gender inequality look unimportant and pop-culture obsessed. I do think that studying pop culture has a place in a curriculum, but I think college classes that teach it tend to over-analyze these things.
Granted, it's basically just an easy-A course.
DKinMN
2012-01-29 01:05:31 PM
GRCooper
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This is a non-issue.
When I took a course on the U.S. Civil War in college what was I really learning? Critical thinking, analysis, writing, etc.
The subject matter was just something I was interested in, so it helped me to learn what I was *really* being taught.
Eating Twinkies can teach your child how to chew, but that isn't exactly the right choice, is it?
wow just wow
2012-01-29 01:39:24 PM
Dragonduck
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rocky_howard: FTFA: as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum.
And then they wonder why we think Feminism is a farking joke...
I hate this shiat because it makes feminism and studies of actual gender inequality look unimportant and pop-culture obsessed. I do think that studying pop culture has a place in a curriculum, but I think college classes that teach it tend to over-analyze these things.
Granted, it's basically just an easy-A course.
I agree for you special kids pop culture is important. Frackin retard, when you interview for a job tell them you have no skills but you could talk with his/her 15 year old daughter at a picnic.
wow just wow
2012-01-29 01:42:08 PM
GRCooper
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This is a non-issue.
When I took a course on the U.S. Civil War in college what was I really learning? Critical thinking, analysis, writing, etc.
The subject matter was just something I was interested in, so it helped me to learn what I was *really* being taught.
Yep, studying history will teach you that. Studying beyonce, vanilla ice.. not so much
Guidette Frankentits
2012-01-29 01:54:36 PM
My JC had a psychology course based around The Simpsons.
Apos
2012-01-29 01:54:44 PM
This Kevin Allred,esteemed scholar of Beyoncetism,must have ties to Gloria "Are you a wronged,cash-strapped hooker?
I'll
represent you!" Allred in some way...
Guidette Frankentits
2012-01-29 01:55:19 PM
rocky_howard
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FTFA: as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum.
And then they wonder why we think Feminism is a farking joke...
QFT
JJRRutgers
2012-01-29 02:08:24 PM
Geez, haven't we already had to the story of the university paying Snooki to do a lecture? No wonder Schiano bolted for the Bucs.
GRCooper
2012-01-29 02:13:23 PM
Yep, studying history will teach you that
No, it won't. There are plenty of professors who teach awful history courses that teach only what happened, not why it happened or the repurcussions.
A course teaching students why society views celebrities the way it does and how that view of celebrity effects society will teach more about how to think than a course that simply has students remembering that something happened on June 15 1215.
If the 'subject matter' is all that's being taught, the problem is with the professor, not the subject matter.
/not going to bother with the 'tarded twinkie analogy
AcneVulgaris
2012-01-29 02:53:34 PM
RexTalionis
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Aw, for cryin' out loud. I'm going to call the alumni association and tell them that I'm not going to donate anymore if they pull this kind of shiat.
Not that it'll do a hell of a lot of good, but it'll make me feel better.
Go fark the school mascot too. That'll make you feel even better.
OtherLittleGuy
2012-01-29 03:16:22 PM
rocky_howard
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FTFA: as part of the school's Women's and Gender Studies curriculum.
And then they wonder why we think Feminism is a farking joke...
Advanced Studies in Nappy-Headed Ho-ism?
Dafatone
2012-01-29 03:43:33 PM
How dare anyone study parts of culture that are incredibly widespread and influential!
Turbo Cojones
2012-01-29 04:03:47 PM
RandomAxe
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Tuition paying parents of Rutgers students now thrilled to hear that their kids can earn three credits taking Beyonce 101
Wait, are you saying Rutgers students are dumb enough that they need a class in how to take Beyonce? Or are you saying they can get credit for having sex with her?
Either way, this doesn't make much sense. And it's hard to believe those credits would transfer to a better school.
"Better school"? Are you trolling?
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Lochsteppe
2012-01-29 04:18:15 PM
Any school or academic program worth its salt will create experimental classes from time to time, including classes on subjects that might seem silly to an outside observer. Rutgers has a total enrollment of nearly 55,000 students. One class of 20-ish students is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things, and if the class (or the way the teacher handles it) turns out to suck, they probably won't offer it again. Not likely to cause Western society to collapse.
When people take a class on Shakespeare or Jane Austen, it can be hard to talk about the cultural impact of the works at the time when they occurred because of incomplete data. A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
You may now return to your previously scheduled hissy fits.
Six_By_Nine
2012-01-29 04:48:06 PM
Lochsteppe
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A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
I don't mind if it's a range of contemporary figures. But I don't like it when it's just a single one, and here's why: the kids taking a class on South Park, for instance, are doing so not because they want to learn anything new but because they want a more 'intellectual' justification for the stuff they actually like.
Now, if the curriculum were feminist and had a section on Beyonce, and then, say, Dolly Parton, and then Ani DiFranco, and then Skunk Anansie and Joan Jett, then I'd be happier to approve.
I don't mind experimental curricula, I would just like it to have an edge that gives a student a perspective on something they otherwise wouldn't have given thought to.
Lochsteppe
2012-01-29 05:10:23 PM
Six_By_Nine
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Lochsteppe: A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
I don't mind if it's a range of contemporary figures. But I don't like it when it's just a single one, and here's why: the kids taking a class on South Park, for instance, are doing so not because they want to learn anything new but because they want a more 'intellectual' justification for the stuff they actually like.
Now, if the curriculum were feminist and had a section on Beyonce, and then, say, Dolly Parton, and then Ani DiFranco, and then Skunk Anansie and Joan Jett, then I'd be happier to approve.
I don't mind experimental curricula, I would just like it to have an edge that gives a student a perspective on something they otherwise wouldn't have given thought to.
That's a reasonable and sensible counterpoint. What are you trying to pull??
DjangoStonereaver
2012-01-29 05:25:30 PM
RexTalionis
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Aw, for cryin' out loud. I'm going to call the alumni association and tell them that I'm not going to donate anymore if they pull this kind of shiat.
Not that it'll do a hell of a lot of good, but it'll make me feel better.
I don't give the Rutgers Alumni Association one thin dime, and this sure as heck won't get me to start.
ImperialHazman
2012-01-29 05:36:31 PM
Come on folks. If we don't educate our children now, where will we look in half a decade when we need somebody to camp out in a park and biatch about student loans and how much somebody who studied makes? China, that's where. We can't afford a slacker gap. Lay off.
AnEvilGuest
2012-01-29 06:30:51 PM
Listen punks, do you want a real football program or don't you?
because you're not gonna get one with a bunch of goddamn calculus courses
Six_By_Nine
2012-01-29 07:32:56 PM
Lochsteppe
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That's a reasonable and sensible counterpoint. What are you trying to pull??
Nothing. Full disclosure: I'm a teacher (math and science) and in New Jersey. I didn't graduate from Rutgers, but I have friends who did and students that eventually will. And I get pissed that education needs to apparently keep up with pop culture - without context, no less - to essentially take appeasement measures for students that don't possess any kind of real intellectual curiosity.
Sure this stuff doesn't affect me directly, but students take that kind of attitude into my classes, too. ("I don't like this subject, and since YOU'RE not making it appealing to ME directly, I'm not going to do any work to understand it. I'm just here because I need to take this class, not because I intend to give a shiat about it and it's YOUR FAULT if I fail because you're not willing to cater to me.")
rmcooper4
2012-01-29 08:44:11 PM
Six_By_Nine
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Lochsteppe: A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
I don't mind if it's a range of contemporary figures. But I don't like it when it's just a single one, and here's why: the kids taking a class on South Park, for instance, are doing so not because they want to learn anything new but because they want a more 'intellectual' justification for the stuff they actually like.
Now, if the curriculum were feminist and had a section on Beyonce, and then, say, Dolly Parton, and then Ani DiFranco, and then Skunk Anansie and Joan Jett, then I'd be happier to approve.
I don't mind experimental curricula, I would just like it to have an edge that gives a student a perspective on something they otherwise wouldn't have given thought to.
I tend to agree with you that focusing only on Beyonce seems almost superficial and a bit like pandering. Still, It sounds to me that this class is less about Beyonce herself and more using her as a central figure through which students will be exposed to post-structuralist theories of gender, race, and sexuality. These are theories that on their own are bit difficult to pin down, especially at the undergrad level. Beyonce gives something concrete to work ideas of representation and power through. Anyway, it certainly sounds better than "Intro to Gender, Race, and Sexuality."
Remarkable_Anus
2012-01-29 08:45:20 PM
Oh so close now....Sadly
trotsky
2012-01-29 09:28:02 PM
I can't even get a goddamn class approved on "Medieval Politics". fark.
dougputhoff
2012-01-29 09:47:30 PM
I think Rutgers should have a course based on its one of its best-know alums:
Mister Magoo 101.
LouDobbsAwaaaay
2012-01-29 10:09:17 PM
Dafatone
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How dare anyone study parts of culture that are incredibly widespread and influential!
There's nothing wrong with using pop culture in your classroom, but building a course around a single pop culture icon is just stupid. A course on Steve Guttenberg might have had pop culture cache in the mid 80s, but the relevancy of such a course disintegrates along with the relevancy of its icon.
hasty ambush
2012-01-29 10:24:30 PM
coco ebert
2012-01-29 11:53:42 PM
Lochsteppe
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Any school or academic program worth its salt will create experimental classes from time to time, including classes on subjects that might seem silly to an outside observer. Rutgers has a total enrollment of nearly 55,000 students. One class of 20-ish students is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things, and if the class (or the way the teacher handles it) turns out to suck, they probably won't offer it again. Not likely to cause Western society to collapse.
When people take a class on Shakespeare or Jane Austen, it can be hard to talk about the cultural impact of the works at the time when they occurred because of incomplete data. A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
You may now return to your previously scheduled hissy fits.
Wonderfully put. Also, the class isn't really on "Beyonce" per se (heh). Instead, Beyonce is a jumping-off point for discussing other relevant issues in U.S. popular culture.
coco ebert
2012-01-30 12:03:50 AM
Lochsteppe
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Any school or academic program worth its salt will create experimental classes from time to time, including classes on subjects that might seem silly to an outside observer. Rutgers has a total enrollment of nearly 55,000 students. One class of 20-ish students is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things, and if the class (or the way the teacher handles it) turns out to suck, they probably won't offer it again. Not likely to cause Western society to collapse.
When people take a class on Shakespeare or Jane Austen, it can be hard to talk about the cultural impact of the works at the time when they occurred because of incomplete data. A class on a prominent contemporary figure opens up the option to talk about cultural impact in real time.
You may now return to your previously scheduled hissy fits.
Wonderfully put. Also, the class isn't really on "Beyonce" per se (heh, I rhymed). Instead, Beyonce is a jumping-off point for discussing other relevant issues in U.S. popular culture.
coco ebert
2012-01-30 12:05:54 AM
Weird, double post on Fark? How did I do that?
jimpoz
2012-01-30 12:11:11 AM
Perhaps they can discuss why it's pronounced be-YON-ce even though the accent on the e would indicate that it should be pronounced be-yon-CE.
rocky_howard
2012-01-30 01:14:27 AM
coco ebert
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Weird, double post on Fark? How did I do that?
The stupid! It breeds!
Run for your lives!
LewDux
2012-01-30 02:43:01 AM
Guidette Frankentits
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My JC had a psychology course based around The Simpsons.
You just can't use BeyoncE (I
refuse
to use that stupid letter) and The Simposons in the same sentence. Simple people like Simpsons built America, celebrities like BeyoncE will ruin it
grokca
2012-01-30 07:47:58 AM
Women's studies? What does Beyonce know about cooking and cleaning?
DjangoStonereaver
2012-01-30 08:29:13 AM
dougputhoff
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I think Rutgers should have a course based on its one of its best-know alums:
Mister Magoo 101.
Would teach that class.
RexTalionis
2012-01-30 10:17:02 AM
DjangoStonereaver
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dougputhoff: I think Rutgers should have a course based on its one of its best-know alums:
Mister Magoo 101.
[static.dramastyle.com image 482x720]
Would teach that class.
I was at the Mason Gross anniversary show where Avery Brooks was the MC. Man, that man is cool in person. He's also got a really weird sense of style that looks okay when he's wearing it, but would look retarded if anyone else tries to copy him.
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