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    SRC Elections 2005

    You would have to operationalize the terms though. "democracy in the market" doesn't say much really at all. Just a cliche isn't it? It can really cover a whole range of possible versions of 'democracy'. I mean democracy is a sweet word and all, but so are lots of words. Why not...
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    Sydney University Arts for "discredited leftist/postmodern thinking"

    In my opinion PC by it very definition (what is political 'correct') is a debate-killer due to cloying dogmatic inbuilt heavy duty (albiet quaint) moralising.
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    Sydney University Arts for "discredited leftist/postmodern thinking"

    I think the rise of PC calls for a new generation of scholars who are able to cope with and overcome the jingoistic excesses of PC conformism; that is to say, be able to argue coherently or rationally (not in hysterical outrage) against it, and to be able to do so in hostile territory (e.g...
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    Sydney University Arts for "discredited leftist/postmodern thinking"

    " the arts faculty of Sydney University seems intent on closing them to all but discredited leftist/postmodernist thinking." and so on. Has that rant in the SMH been mentioned yet. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/29/1106850161870.html Is it true?
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    Taking photos in the dorm

    Just a warning to me I guess, about using a camera on campus.
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    Economic and Social Sciences

    PS. That chapt 4 written in spirit of http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gschnedr/IPECh6.htm "It is time to let a hundred flowers bloom." Ha. Surely the author must know that that particular bogus policy of Mao Zedung only lasted a short while for as soon as the dissidents...
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    Economic and Social Sciences

    http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gschnedr/IPECh6.htm So the staff are likely leftists, pushing a line about class injustice, gender and racial inequality; using counter-theses such as those of a more green morality to theoretically discredit 'hidden hand' theory that purports...
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    political correctness (esp. sexual) at universities ?

    Hello I was looking at this 'news' story Lets-talk-about-sex and wonder if people feel there is much in the way of so-called political correctness on their campus scene.
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