Members of the community at the University of Puget Sound have heard much talk about the need for "conversations." Plenary meetings of the faculty and of the Faculty Senate are too few to accommodate all the conversations that the community could use. RUMP PARLIAMENT fosters more conversation, and, in keeping with prior slogananeering, participates in the "Culture of Evidence."
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Commencement Speaker
Before I could delete a communiqué about commencement 2013, I saw that Dr. Philip B. [sic] Zimbardo would be the commencement speaker. The announcement noted among other accomplishments Professor Zimbardo's " ... groundbreaking research, The Stanford Prison Experiment."
I suppose the Stanford Prison Experiment could be called "groundbreaking." I should prefer "heartbreaking," but why quibble? To refresh your recollection of that experiment, please see
http://www.prisonexp.org/ and/or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwfNs1pqG0.
I'd like to host a list of the best responses to this announcement. Please reply to this posting, anonymously if you wish, with your response(s).
For example, you could respond with snark: "Springing Bernie Madoff [or Jerry Sandusky or Charlie Manson -- suit your taste or lack thereof] for our commencement would be difficult."
Or you might note that "Dr. Zimbardo probably paid UPS to be rehabilitated as commencement speaker."
Or be sanguine: "It won't be boring."
Or turn a lemon into lemonade: "It's great to hear from an inadvertent founder of Human Subjects committees."
What is your response to Philip George Zimbardo's speaking at graduation this year?
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PUGET SOUND -- 125 years
"To the depths!"
To be fair, we might assume that the university invited John Yoo and former Vice President Cheney first but were turned down. Maybe the speech will be called "enhanced commencement techniques."
I suppose Abu Ghraib was ground-breaking as well. Still, I do not expect Lynndie England to be UPS graduation speaker. I'm not sure why.
Next UPS will host John Jandali!
What a sendoff for our newest alums.
Zimbardo has seemed to me to revel in notoreity. Deprive him of what he craves. Just look away. Ignore graduation. Walk away.
Why not Zamboni?
So the committee selected a speaker almost no one will have heard of and those who have likely despise. Good work!
Perhaps his being present will instill the fear of Satan in all graduating seniors.
He published study on Lucifer? What is wrong with UPS now? -Whiteperson, 1988
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