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Plane

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What is your major?
« on: October 21, 2006, 11:34:40 PM »
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When we catch Osama Bin Laden , lets torture him by makeing him enroll in this class.

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Re: What is your major?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2006, 03:17:53 PM »
Sick, sick, but not surprising. An extension of academic freedom, I suppose.

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Re: What is your major?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2006, 04:18:24 PM »

Sick, sick, but not surprising. An extension of academic freedom, I suppose.


Would you mind elaborating on that comment?
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Re: What is your major?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2006, 04:22:18 PM »
The idea that "anything goes" in a classroom. If it doesn't meet academic rigor, then it isn't academic, just play.

That being said, academic rigor is largely, but not completely, decided by local institutions.