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General Department Events
Two pictures from the spring end-of semester party hosted by Dave Shoemaker and Marie Lantz. Rumor has it that there were some top-notch vocal performances later in the evening on Dave's karaoke machine. I wish I'd
been there to witness them!
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The Likely Lads
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Descending Downunderers
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Thanks to David Shoemaker for the photos.
Poker caught on in a big way this year. Campbell Brown lost his family inheritance to Steve Weimer, so is no longer speaking to him, and has taken the faculty members off to form their own game. A number of the graduate
students still meet in secret on Friday evenings to fleece each other if they can.
Other sports were not neglected. (That assumes that poker is a sport. It's on ESPN, so it must be). Sangeeta Sangha continued in her relentless drive to improve the physical fitness of the department. She organized an intramural volleyball
team, as well as wallyball at the Rec Center.
Blogging also seems to have taken hold in the past year. Department members are currently involved in significant ways with at least
two blogs. Campbell Brown, David Shoemaker and David Sobel, along with alumnus Kyle Swan, are contributors to Pea Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics and academia. Two of our graduate students, Peter Jaworski and David Faraci have set up an ethics blog, Unideal Observers, to which many of our other graduate students also contribute, and which has been noted in the Leiter Report's website.
Department renovations got under way toward the end of the semester, the carpets in the department corridors, office and colloquium room were all
replaced. Many faculty were horrified, as it made it almost impossible for students to find their offices, just when they
wanted to explain why their medically unidentifiable disease had prevented them from coming to class all semester, bring in
those last-minute withdrawal forms, and so on. Margy and Priscilla coped brilliantly, as usual.
Margy's temporary office
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Priscilla squeezed into the mailroom with the copier
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One of the more cheerful deconstructionists I've met
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A Tabula Rasa
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We knew it: they can do anything!
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"My, haven't they evolved!"
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End of Fall Semester Party
We celebrated the end of the Fall semester with another party. No exotic location this time, but it was still fun. Here are
some pics.
George Agich argues that the current popularity of poker is a symptom of society's moral decline.
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"A pregnant woman stands between me and the Canadian whiskey bottle. What am I ethically permitted to do?"
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Three upstanding young philosophers.
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Definitely the Belle of the Ball
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