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ASP Small Group Sessions. ASP Small Group Sessions. Information about the Academic Support Program, including membership criteria for ASP small group sessions and the process for petitioning into the small groups, is available by clicking here. For more information about the Academic Support Program and study resources, please visit the ASP web site.
Student Health Insurance Information
Student Health Insurance. For information about the 2011-2012 student health insurance plan, please see the Student Services section of this week's Record, and the Student Health Insurance FAQ.
For more information regarding insurance coverage, please visit the Student Health Center Website.
Insurance Cards will arrive at the downtown campus in October. We will email all students when they arrive so that you may pick them up.
Academic Resource Library
The Office of Student Services maintains a small resource library of study aids and other materials for first year classes, including Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Justice, Property, and Torts. Students can borrow materials for a three-day period. This is a great way to preview a study aid before you buy it or do a quick review for a class.
If you are interested in borrowing a book or flashcards, please see Jenna Abhijeet in Room 310a.
Click here for a list of Subject areas and Book titles
Student Business Cards
To order student business cards with the Chicago-Kent logo,Click here to complete the form.
If you have any questions, contact Jenna Abhijeet, Director of Student Services, at (312) 906-5005 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Spring Upass Information
CTA U-Pass Program. Chicago-Kent is a participant in the Chicago Transit Authority's U-Pass program. The U-Pass is a discount fare card allowing unlimited rides on all CTA buses and trains. All full-time day students will receive a U-Pass card valid from January 17 (the first day of classes) through May 11 (the end of Spring exams). The charge for the card will appear on the semester bill for each full-time student. Due to restrictions imposed by the CTA, the program is not currently available to evening students or part-time day students.For more details, see our U-Pass FAQ, and visit the CTA's U-Pass web site.
Lost or Stolen: If you lose your U-Pass or it is stolen, you need to go to CTAHeadquarters at 567 West Lake Street, 2nd Floor. Replacement cards cost $50.00 (cash, credit card, or money order only) and you will need to bring a valid Chicago-Kent student ID card. Replacement passes are sent to Chicago-Kent five to seven days after you apply. You will be notified by email once it arrives. Please note: CTA will replace lost or stolen U-Pass cards only one time per academic year.
On a Bus: If your U-Pass is captured in bus equipment, the bus operator will ask you to complete a customer service card and allow you to ride free. If needed, a free transfer will be provided. You must bring the customer service card, along with your valid Chicago-Kent student ID card, to CTA Headquarters at 567 West Lake Street, 2nd Floor to apply for a replacement. Replacement passes are sent to Chicago-Kent five to sevendays after you apply. You will be notified by email once it arrives. If you fail to get the customer service card, it can take up to two weeks to replace your U-Pass.
On the El: If your U-Pass is captured in rail station equipment, locate a customer assistant and inform him or her of your problem. The customer assistant will have you complete a fare discrepancy report (FDR) and issue you a free transit card valued at $3.60. You must bring a copy of the FDR, along with your valid Chicago-Kent student ID card, to CTA Headquarters at 567 West Lake Street, 2nd Floor to apply for a replacement. Replacement passes are sent to Chicago-Kent five to seven days after you apply. You will be notified by email once it arrives. If you fail to get the FDR, it can take up to two weeks to replace your U-Pass.
You can find more information about the U-Pass at CTA's U-Pass Website or Kent's U-Pass FAQ.
Counseling Services
IIT's Counseling Center will have a staff psychologist at the Law School on Mondays throughout the academic year. She will be available by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, call (312) 567-5900. There is no charge for these counseling services.
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This past election cycle, we saw the power a government-issued ID can give an individual. In states where voter ID laws were being enforced, individuals who did not have government IDs could not exercise their right to vote. Several communities were impacted: transgender people, Latinos, African Americans, students, the elderly, people with disabilities – in short, many, many people. These ID laws harken to Jim Crow-era poll taxes and "literacy tests," and at the same time increased the impact of fear tactics used to intimidate voters from going to the polls, exacerbating the historic and current inequities that many communities of color face.
Voting ID laws, and voter suppression in general, also have a unique impact on women of color. Recently, the Center for American Progress issued a report that shows how voter suppression denies justice for women of color. The report finds that many people who are eligible to vote don't have the appropriate identification they would need to do so, and that this disproportionately impacts people of color — and particularly women of color. While only 8 percent of white voters lack proper identification, 25 percent of African American and 16 percent of Latino voters do not possess the needed identification to vote according to these laws. What's more troubling, some states have required proof of citizenship before individuals vote. According to the CAP report, 7 percent of all eligible American voters lack quick access to documents needed to show citizenship, and though 34 percent of women have documents showing citizenship, these documents do not reflect their current legal names. Once you see these numbers, it's no wonder that women of color are disproportionately impacted by voter suppression efforts. In fact, the CAP report estimates that between 596,000 and 959,000 women of color may have been disenfranchised this past Election Day.
Transgender people, too are uniquely impacted by voter ID legislation. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face a complex web of barriers to gaining documents that accurately reflect their gender and name. In fact, a report from the Williams Institute found that 41 percent of transgender citizens do not have documents that reflect their transitions, and 74 percent did not have an updated passport, and 27 percent did not have identification documents that reflected their current gender at all. The report also found that transgender and gender non-conforming people of color, students, those with low incomes, and those with disabilities were disproportionately impacted. Moreover, presenting an identification document that does not match one's gender presentation can not only present a barrier to vote, but may also expose transgender people to harassment or violence.
The use of a government issued ID to suppress the rights of "undesirable" communities is not just limited to voting rights, however, but is also a barrier for access to over-the-counter emergency contraception. As it stands now, over-the-counter emergency contraception is only available to people over the age of 17, and they must provide government-issued identification. Those under the age of 17 and those who have no government-issued ID must get a prescription. Because having updated and valid government-issued identification is difficult for women and transgender people of color, obtaining emergency contraception over the counter can be difficult or impossible. Additionally, women, transgender, and gender non-conforming Latin@s have disproportionate rates of uninsurance, making the prospect of getting a prescription for emergency contraception – a time-sensitive drug – that much more costly and burdensome. Moreover, for Latin@s, including undocumented Latin@s, many other obstacles may factor into their ability to access the care they need in a timely fashion: financial costs, lack of linguistically and culturally competent providers, stigma, and lack of transportation.
Critics may say that individuals who cannot access over the counter EC should just use other forms of over the counter contraception on a regular basis, such as condoms and spermicide, but let's face it: not all individuals are in healthy relationships, cost may be a barrier for these methods as well, but most importantly, sometimes birth control methods fail. The bottom line is that all individuals should have real access to a wide range of birth control options so that they can truly exercise and enjoy their bodily autonomy.
The recent focus on presenting government-issued IDs is having a tragic impact on women and transgender people of color. These laws deny people not only their civic voice but truly deny their right to bodily autonomy and self-determination. In the coming week, tell Secretary Sebelius to revisit the evidence on EC and remove its restrictions so that all people can make the healthy choice for themselves and their families.

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The PlayStation Vita is not lighting the video game market on fire with swift sales and widespread developer support. In fact, it's not even sparking. The metaphorical combustion power of the PS Vita is roughly comparable to that of a waterlogged beach towel. Even in Japan, Sony's home territory and a market where the positively ancient PlayStation Portable handheld continues to sell, the PS Vita is struggling. How badly is it struggling? Nintendo is selling forty-seven Nintendo 3DSs for every one PS Vita Sony sells.
According to Japanese sales tracking firm Media Create (via NeoGAF), the Nintendo 3DS outsold the PS Vita 47-to-1 between Nov. 5 and Nov. 11. Nintendo sold a total of 187,077 3DS consoles whereas Sony sold just 4,021.
In fairness, the numbers aren't terribly surprising in light of the week's new releases. There was no marquee release on Sony's handheld, while Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the first handheld entry in its incredibly popular life simulator series since 2005's Animal Crossing: Wild World for Nintendo DS. That game sold more than 11.5 million copies in its first six years on shelves so naturally this new entry helped give the 3DS its astounding lead over PS Vita.
These abysmal weekly sales are just one more sign of Sony's imperiled portable gaming business. The PS Vita has been selling poorly on a consistent basis almost since its release. In December 2011, the PS Vita debuted in Japan with a modest 325,000 units sold during its first week on shelves. Sales fell nearly 80 percent one week later, though, and despite an occasional surge following new releases Sony has failed to build any momentum behind the Vita.
Sony's quarterly earnings report on Nov. 1 painted the most dire portrait of its handheld business. Between July and the end of September, Sony sold just 1.6 million PSPs and PS Vitas combined. That's compared to 1.7 million PSPs over the same period the year before.
Can Sony repair its damaged portable business by dropping the price of the Vita just like Nintendo did for the Nintendo 3DS in 2011? At this point, a price drop may not be enough. While lowering the 3DS' price from $250 to $170 certainly helped Nintendo convince people to buy the system, it was the release of games like Monster Hunter in Japan and Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 in the global market that really fueled that device's turnaround. Sony doesn't have a single announced game for the PS Vita that commands the same size audience as those titles.


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Everleigh Electrics Ltd58 Feedback reviews, 100% positive
Small professional family company based in Portadown but provides services all over Northern Ireland. No job too small but specialise in rewires and love to assist in self build projects & other new builds. We pride ourselves in providing a professional, clean and... read more
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D.W. Electrical38 Feedback reviews, 97% positive
All types of domestic & Commercial work. Reasonable rates. Belfast based. Cookers, T.V.s, Electric Showers, Sockets/Switches, etc. Anything else? Just ask. We also accept card payments. read more
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Robinson Electrical & Boiler Services38 Feedback reviews, 100% positive
Qualified Approved Electrician with 30 years experience, carries out all types of electrical work including, fault finding, testing and inspection, fuse box upgrades, new installations, rewires, extra sockets, lights, downlighters, security lights, showers, smoke and carbon... read more
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Joroli Electrical15 Feedback reviews, 100% positive
Hi there, I'm Chris 'Joroli', I have 15 years experience as an electrician, I really enjoy what I do, and love finding solutions to my customers needs. I've worked on domestic, commercial, and industrial projects, throughout the World, and love a new challenge. I've recently... read more
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Boyd Electrical Contractors10 Feedback reviews, 100% positive
We are a small family run business with over 70 years of experience in the electrical industry, specialising in all domestic house electrics, from installing a new light in your house to a complete rewire. We are NICEIC approved electricians & take pride in every type of... read more
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Finlay Electrical Services8 Feedback reviews, 100% positive
I am a time served electrician, dedicated in providing the highest quality of workmanship at the most affordable price. All of my work is guarenteed. I am punctual, reliable and extremely focused. I can provide help and advice in any area of the electrical industry. If you... read more
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Mercer electrical services covers all domestic electrical work. With over 12 years experience we have a great knowledge of electrics. All work is carried out to a high standard and won't be beaten on price. read more
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My name is Fintan O'Brien and have just started my own Electrical Limited Company in Coleraine. I have worked in the Domestic, Commercial and Industrial sectors for over 20 years. read more
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Azzurri Electrical provides electrical services to all sectors, with competitive pricing in place to suit all budgets.Installations are constructed, designed,tested and certified to comply with current wiring regulations.We will provide you with an obligation free quote for... read more
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CRANBERRY TWP — Township police have solved one store robbery while starting up an investigation on another store robbery.
Police this afternoon announced that they had taken into custody Matthew Macher, 34, of Cranberry Township, in connection with the attempted robbery of the Rite Aid pharmacy on Route 19 on Monday evening.
The robber told an employee that he had a bomb.
He fled the store without getting any drugs.
At about 11 p.m. Tuesday, a man entered the BP gas station with a shotgun and made off with some cash from the cash register. The suspect is described as being a white male with a thin build, about 6 feet tall, wearing a black hooded sweat shirt, blue jeans and a gray shirt pulled up to cover his face.


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Restaurant owners have long feared the current health code grading system from the New York State Department of Health and Mental Health (DOHMH) since they first began printing them in newspapers back in 1971, while customers have used it as the law when planning their next outing.
But does the A on you're local pizzeria's storefront really mean your walking into a first class dining experience? Or does a C mean really mean you should steer clear?
The New Hospitality Alliance, a trade group representing restaurants, recently asked the website Yelp to hold off on posting these subjective grades until "reforms are passed by the City Council," raising the question whether there will be some potential future accountability on health inspectors.
City Council Member Gale Brewer hasn't said whether or not the NYC Council will be changing any current legislation, however she does agree that inspectors should have additional training, previously co-chairing a hearing last March to press the issue.
"People in the past weren't training to be honest," Brewer said of the past inspection practices. "Restaurants were really upset about the quality of inspectors."
Though she said inspectors have been under-qualified in the past, Brewer remains hopeful that inspectors are properly identifying conditions that are considered unsanitary.
"If you have rats running around, you should close the damn place down," she said. "If it's a violation with signs or something, there should be more of an education component."
Joseph Pace, owner of Barone Pizza at 40-12 Bell Boulevard, said he got the first C after health inspectors could not access the basement, which he explained could only be opened by the building's landlord.
"The stupid inspector that came out, didn't have access and couldn't open it; so right there he gave me 28 points and failed me," Pace said. "It was the first C I ever got."
After Pace successfully appealed the violation, which landed critical rating on his storefront for "Duties of an officer of the Department interfered with or obstructed", the judge on the case still required his restaurant to reapply for another inspection.
According to the DOH website, he was also written up for poorly stored cold food items, evidence of vermin and "improperly installed, in disrepair and/or fails to prevent excessive build-up of grease, heat, steam condensation vapors, odors, smoke and fumes."
"If it gets dismissed, they should change it right away at the time of the judge drops it," Pace said. "It really all depends on the mood of the inspector at the time."
So far he has spent close to $3,000 for multiple inspections over the last year, blaming the unfair treatment from inspectors.
According to Pace, inspectors have even written him up for "food on the can opener" while his staff was currently cooking and using the kitchen tools.
"How can you clean it when you're using it? I mean you would need like 22 employees, and how can we afford that," he said. "We're not making a million dollars like them."
The restaurant manager at Fame Diner in Maspeth, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of possible discrimination from health inspectors, agrees the current system does not always accurately represent the sanitation of the restaurant.
"I feel they need to give clarification of the grade that's on the window," he said. "An 'A' doesn't necessarily mean the place is 100 percent spotless or particularly safe for eating, and just because a place has a 'C' doesn't necessarily mean it's not safe to eat there," he added, explaining he got a deduction because the bathroom door didn't have a built-in, automatic door closer which cost him close to $600.
Although Fame got an A grade from their last health inspection, he says he knows people with restaurants who have suffered from grade reductions that do not necessarily reflect their cleanliness.
"There have been times in the past where a friend of mines gotten an A every single time, and there was one time he got a B and he didn't change his style of work or his cleanliness from one inspector to the next," he said. "He got that B posted one time, the violation had nothing to do with food and he saw his business go down and it's not fair."
While he has worked hard for his own A, the Fame manager hopes inspectors are held more accountable in the future to prevent possible infractions on his the restaurant in the future.
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Pair of artificial arms for a child, Roehampton, England, 1964
Can one technology rectify the harm done by another? In the late 1950s and early 1960s, thousands of children across the world were born with malformed limbs because their mothers had taken a new drug known as thalidomide to counteract morning sickness and aid sleep. In Britain, one of the government's responses was to fund the design of special prosthetic limbs for the many young children affected. Here is a pair of gas-powered arms made for a small child by the Steeper company. As children grow so quickly, this may have been the second or even third set they had worn. Their first pair were likely to have been much simpler, with doll-like plastic hands and very basic arm movements. This set is much more sophisticated, with arms that have pincer-like hook endings which could swivel and grip. Movements controlled by the child's own short limbs or shoulders touching against sensitive valves on the inner surface of the 'jacket'. However, there was a limit to what you could really do with them. Although these experimental limbs allowed children to do certain things for themselves, it's debatable whether they gained any more independence than they would otherwise have done. Wearing them could be hot and very uncomfortable and regular re-fittings and adjustments were needed as the child grew. In the end, they were virtually all discarded by the time the children reached their teens.
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Fire destroyed the sign of VA Butler Healthcare at 7:26 a.m. today at the corner of New Castle Road and Duffy Road.
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Census: the Expert Guide.
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Searching for Flemish (Belgian) Ancestors.
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Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide.
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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth Century New York City.
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A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland. 2nd Edition.
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Utah's Democratic Party celebrates largest fundraiser in its history
01/27/2013 9:15amThere were sequins and smiles, cheers and applause and a whole lot of enthusiasm at the Utah Democratic Party's Legislative gala Saturday — its biggest to date.
LEGO bricks at heart of engineering competition for kids
01/27/2013 9:25amAt the University of Utah Saturday, young people worked with Lego bricks to showcase their grasp of robotics and engineering.
New Draper TRAX station to feature historic rail car
01/27/2013 9:40amUTA and the city of Draper have partnered to build a historic rail car exhibit at the Draper Town Center TRAX station.
`Fruitvale,' `Blood Brother' win Sundance Awards
01/27/2013 10:14amThe dramatic film "Fruitvale" and the documentary "Blood Brother" won over audiences and Sundance Film Festival judges.
Federal data base prevents mentally incompetent from buying guns
01/27/2013 11:55amUtah is now participating in a federal data base that keeps track of Utahns who have been deemed mentally incompetent by the court system, from buying guns.
Utah Media Coalition again utilizing GRAMA Watch
01/27/2013 1:05pmThe Utah Media Coalition will again implement its GRAMA Watch during the 2013 Utah Legislative session.
Teenager stabs brother multiple times in argument, police say
01/27/2013 5:25pmA 21-year-old man was in critical condition Sunday after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times by his teenage brother during an argument, police said.
Sandy woman killed, man injured in crash on I-80
01/27/2013 5:27pmA couple traveling on I-80 rolled their car after hitting an ice patch early Sunday morning.
City considers Highland Drive extension
01/27/2013 6:43pmThe city of Sandy is weighing plans to extend Highland Drive beyond 9800 South.
KSL investigation sparks interest in radon bill
01/27/2013 10:10pmA bill sparked by a KSL investigation into radon will be up for debate in the 2013 Legislative Session.
Utah Legislature convenes Monday
01/27/2013 10:14pmWhen the Utah Legislature convenes for its 60th session Monday, the state's budget and education are expected to be at the top of the priority list.
Utah storm causes delays on SL Airport runways
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Because this comic is just terrible. First off, I am damn sick and tired of shitty xkcd breakup comics. There have been so fucking many of them, I just do not understand why anyone could not be tired to death of them. Is this one any different? Not really. We see people suddenly go from happy relationship to violent breakup and hatred. I guess part of the joke is how suddenly they break up, which is really more sad than anything else. But then the real point is that they can't even figure out who should hang up first even after their fight. Which...is confusing. Do they still want to be on the phone together? In that case, is the whole breakup not really meaningful? Or do they hate each other really, but in that case, shouldn't they naturally want to hang up in anger?
The problem is that it can't be both, and really, it can't even be either. But thinking things through has never been Randall's strong suit, so how surprised can we be?
Also, it's another comic where the alt-text is identical to the punchline.
Man, sorry I don't have much else to say on this comic - it's just stupid and repetitive. Anything I said about previous Breakup comics applies here too.
here's a fun compare and contrast: Different takes on the same basic idea from my favorite and my least favorite comics. I, of course, think Tom the Dancing Bug did a better job, especially because it is presented as a satire of current events. But perhaps you disagree?
Alright, i'm out of here motherfuckers - it's Poore week starting right now. brace yourselves. I'll still lurk around and help celebrate comic #700. But the minimum blood alcohol concentration is about to jump up to about 0.9.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Comic 451: Math people are STILL better than you
Which isn't to say it isn't funny. The set up and punchline work pretty well, and the "total idiot lost in the world he is in" is a reliable trope (see: Borat) which is done well in the first three panels.
But it's kind of juvenile and insulting. Randall Munroe doesn't understand literary criticism, and so he thinks it's stupid and easy to fake. Ok. I don't understand it either, but I don't understand math. You could easily make this same comic with some complicated equation in the last panel and I would find it just as funny. A math person wouldn't, just as to a literary person panel 4 is total BS (I can only assume...). Randall really, with this comic, is not saying "literary criticism and related fields are BS" so much as "I don't understand them so they must be BS" which is pretty dumb.
I say this as a person who once very foolishly took a course called "Media Aesthetics" and did, in fact learn about Derrida and Deconstructionism. Well I didn't learn it, the teacher attempted to teach it, but as far as I am concerned, failed. I am a social science person. But I know it's not really science. I am, however, a social science person who thinks it probably is possible to rank people from best to worst, approximately.
Also - does anyone else find the tiny little hands in the comic, especially in panel 3, really freaky and weird? update: Credit where it's due, this was not an original observation but something pointed out on the forums.
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- AnonymousJuly 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM
It's a common attitude amoung math, science, and computer science people. As you correctly observed it stems from "not getting it" which is expressed as mockery. (Expressed as mockery because, since they don't get it, they have to make fun of it or admit that they don't understand it. And for people who value being, and especially seeming, intelligent so highly that is the last thing they are willing to do.) And the reason that they don't get it is because the "paradigm" is too different; in such fields there aren't right or wrong answers and the process is often more important than the conclusion. Science people can't get their heads around that for some reason. And yet humanities & arts people usually don't have a problem appreciating science (although some, the extreme crazy relativists, do).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Ahahah, wow. Woudln't've caught the hand thing had you not pointed it out. It reminds me of birth defects caused by thalidomide.ReplyDelete
From what I know of literary criticism, panel 4 is an arguable point, maybe even a truism. "The deconstruction is inextricable from the text" seems to be roughly Derrida, and any reading is subjective, so the bit about the self can be argued.ReplyDelete
On the first comment: it seems that in a field with no "right or wrong answers" it would take considerably longer to tell if someone is talking out their ass. Just saying. Actually, it seems like it would make the bullshit considerably harder to filter out in general.
Anyway, here's an interesting take on lit crit by a computer professional who took the time to study it.
- AnonymousJuly 21, 2008 at 1:52 PM
You are still thinking in terms of right or wrong. If there is no right or wrong there can be no bullshit. Even if you generated your writing randomly it wouldn't be bullshit (although it might be disingenuous). The goal is to produce in the reader some ineffable insight, not to be correct. Of course a piece generated randomly is unlikely to generate that insight, but then again most writers can't intentionally produce such a piece either.ReplyDelete
Compare the field to a zen koan. Can a koan be right or wrong? No. But not every koan is equally likely to lead to enlightenment. There is no such thing as a bullshit koan, even though many of them are nonsensical.
With that said I am a feirce opponent of postmodernism, because I think that their "creative" use of terminology hinders more than it helps.
Literary theory is pretty rad, but Randall's not entirely wrong here. In 1996, the physicist Alan Sokal submitted a parody essay called "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" to the cultural-studies journal "Social Text." (I leave it to the reader to decide which of these titles - "Transgressing the Boundaries etc. etc." or "Social Text" - is sillier.) The essay (which you can read here) is nonsense from almost any perspective, but it gets a lot of the jargon right. What's more, (according to Sokal), it flatters the editors' ideological position. In any case, they published it. It may not be eight papers and two books... but still. Yikes.ReplyDelete
Now, the offending journal was not peer-reviewed, which makes it a little less reputable to begin with. Also, it's important to note that Sokal did not actually writing a fake cultural-criticism paper: he wrote a fake philosophy-of-science paper that appropriated the jargon of cultural criticism. So the comic's characterization of the issue isn't quite accurate. The editors of Social Text probably would have realized that Sokal wasn't an expert in literary criticism if he'd just submitted a commentary on S/Z or whatever. Their sins lie in the fact that they failed to consider the possibility that he wasn't an expert in theoretical physics. (Not that Sokal isn't an expert - but if they had considered that possibility, and run the paper by some other physicists, the fraud would likely have been detected.)
Nevertheless, as an amateur deconstructionist, I can't help but wince at the fact that Sokal's prank essay was accepted. Literary theory has earned some mockery of this kind. The discipline probably NEEDS some mockery, actually, just to help keep everyone honest.
I do wonder that the mockery is coming from this particular artist, though. In many ways, this speaks to the core of the postmodern project.
Oh, and Pat is totally right about the line in panel 4. It's far from BS. But it's not exactly an interesting statement either. The response of a lit-crit graduate student wouldn't be rapt attention, but rather "Wow, did you come up with that all by yourself? Run along now, I have cloves to smoke."ReplyDelete
"I have cloves to smoke and funny hats to wear."ReplyDelete
Well, the response if Randall Munroe actually tried to do this would be "Dude, are you even out of college yet? Get out of my library cubicle I have a dissertation to write."
Anyway it's so nice to see some debate here in the comments. I have added to the original post that the hand thing was pointed out on the forums, I didn't discover it myself.
All I will add to the debate is that Alan Sokal getting a totally BS paper printed in "Social Text" seems to say a lot about the standards at "Social Text" and very little about deconstruction/literary criticism/the humanities in general. Did they have any prestige in the field beforehand? I wonder what a respected philosopher would say to the article if they were to read it not knowing the story behind it.
You've been deconstructing how xkcd sucks for how long now? And you seem like an expert to me, at least, even if you're not lecturing down to us from a comfy chair.ReplyDelete
Could there be an implied comment about each academic discipline in the panels? The others sit in chairs or speak in the hall like colleagues, but the lit. student chills on the floor and seems to accept what he's told.
Can we add a panel 5 of him babbling about String Theory or upper-level "two plus two doesn't always equal five" bullcrappery?
I have been deconstructing xkcd in the sense that I have been overanalyzing it; is that the same as Deconstruction the complicated literary technique? I don't think it is. But I don't know.ReplyDelete
I suspect that the talking-down-from-a-chair thing was more to show that in the field of literary criticism, the character was able to rise to a point of respect, where he could teach those below him. The panel takes place however many years into his faked-career, when grad students worship every word he says.
I would add a panel 5 where people BS about string theory but it has already been done.
Maybe it's because I'm a writer and not a scholar of literary criticism, but I often get the impression a lot of lit scholars have no idea what they are talking about. There reaches a point at which you're no longer talking about what someone has written and you're talking about what you've read. Maybe that's the point, I don't know.ReplyDelete
I do know that one of the most important skills I've ever picked up in the world of academia is the ability to convince people I know what I'm talking. Making definitive statements, citing sources copiously where appropriate. The difference between myself and many students is, I think, I am often doing it at least slightly disingenuously.
We have long passed the point where I even have a vague idea what I am talking about, so I will just add that a smart person once told me that you can usually jump into any conversation by saying "Bue where do you draw the line?" I am not sure that this would work.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJune 5, 2009 at 3:49 AM
As a definate "literary type" I find this comic hilariousReplyDelete
As a "literary type," you should probably learn to spell "definitely."ReplyDelete
Not to be a ho, just sayin'.
As a literary type I think the latest Anon is a dumbass.ReplyDelete
Can we preface all of our opinions with "as a literary type" pleaseReplyDelete
okay rob just for youReplyDelete
as a literary type, Amanda just had one of the best smackdowns in the history of this blog.ReplyDelete
as a literary type, I concur, well doneReplyDelete
as a literary type, I thank you all and bow graciously.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM
As a CS type, I've taken the minimal ammount of Lit classes needed, and there is a very clear trend in grades on papers of this sort. Lit majors consistantly get higher grades. The problem is that if you look at the actual papers you'll notice that almost everyone that scores a B or higher gets close to the same marks in the area of content. Lit majors just do a lot better in the grammer format and general presentation areas. Granted this is only at the junior college level, but seeing as Randell is a College student (still? or has he graduated) the comic holds up to reason. The being said it would've been better if a less obvious field was picked.ReplyDelete
randall is several years out of college. also: i did not understand what the heck you just wrote. Perhaps I am not a literary type after all.ReplyDelete
basically he is saying "in the low-level Lit Classes For Complete Dumbasses" he had to take in college, he didn't do as well on the papers as the actual lit students, but the only reason for that is this was Literature For Complete Dumbasses, where everyone with a functioning brain can write a good essay, and it is literary-minded individuals who tend to do the best because they also know proper spelling and grammar, which he does not.ReplyDelete
Bah, this is the comic that started to get me very angry with XKCD, sure I do philosophy and English Language at uni, but I'd like to see Randall come even close to scratching the surface. I'm not a very good programmer. I don't work for NASA. I would still kick his arse in an intellectual debate on ethics, language and even some parts of biology and evolution. So don't talk down to us because we don't do what you do.ReplyDelete
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can't say I agree with your implicit ranking of webcomics, but otherwise, nice. very nice.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 5:47 AM
God I hate this comic. I majored in both philosophy and physics (Alan Sokal was my prof. at one point; i had to read his paper..he's a very nice guy whose wife is like Brazilian or something). So I can't help but feel that Randy is hopelessly biased. Meh.ReplyDelete
As someone who took higher-level IB literature, I can verify that yes, lit crit is mostly total BS. At least up to the late high school/early university level.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM
why r u ppl are so pissed anyway? The comic has a fair and straight warning that it may be unacceptable to liberal arts majors.ReplyDelete
No, it says the "advanced mathematics" may be unsuitable for liberal arts majors. Letting aside that 3 of the 7 liberal arts are considered elements of "mathematics" (check it out, bitches!), the point is, there is no advanced mathematics in this comic and there almost never is any in any part of xkcd. What there is is advanced "thinking math makes you better than other people"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Actually I have to agree with Randall on this one. The jab at sociology might be a bit undeserved, but the literary criticism thing is right on.ReplyDelete
I've written a lot papers (on books that I haven't read) in a couple of hours and still got Bs most of the time. You really just need to look at the plot summary and scan through the book for a few adjectives that stick out to you and you can generally create a pretty coherent criticism.
that doesn't mean you were doing a good job, just that whoever was grading you didn't care enough. Do you really think the field of literary criticism is full of people who just BS all the time?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Nerd culture's demonization of the liberal arts (and by that it means anything that doesn't involve doing things with numbers) has always baffled me. OK, so it's alright to be obsessed with Newtonian physics, but not the works of Vladimir Nabokov? Just because a field doesn't deal in absolute truths (which don't exist IRL, dinguses) doesn't make it any less viable. Sure, an English major doesn't have a good chance at making a lot of money doing boring things, but what's inherently wrong about a Best Buy employee who spends his free time with T.S. Eliot?ReplyDelete
SMBC did a great parody of this in which an engineer and a philosopher have a debate and both are made fun of.
- lit studentJune 27, 2010 at 9:51 PM
Caveat: I study literature on the graduate level, although as an undergraduate I mostly focused on political science and philosophy. In high school, I was good at (and enjoyed) advanced math and physics; I just lost interest in them after a while.ReplyDelete
I wish that I better understood advanced science these days. I still find most scientific disciplines to be fascinating and exciting. I have a good deal of respect for those who pursue them.
That said, it's simply not true that, as this comic and others above suggest, the humanities consist in a collection of ever more intricate mystifications and obfuscations that we magicians use to bewitch right-thinking, logical people into paying our salaries. Think about it: that's what this comic implies, coming from a self-identified (and apparently rather proud) "scientist" -- me no understand your mouth-words, you dumb, I smart.
It's the same kind of knee-jerk anti-intellectualism that threatens science, that makes a lawyer think he can trump Darwin and Dawkins with something called "Intelligent Design," or a weatherman with a Doppler radar think he can debunk climate science as "voodoo." This is not to say that there exists no B.S. in academia. Having quite a few scientist friends in graduate school, I know that it also exists in the sciences. It doesn't matter whether you study physics or Renaissance art: the money flows to the top, and at the top are people who are popular, powerful, or both.
One need glance only very briefly at what passes for an understanding of humanism in the sciences to know that most scientists, young ones and students especially, have a poor grasp of things like politics, ethics, philosophy, and so on. Smart (and not merely competent) ones tend to nevertheless have an appreciation for them. Math is fundamentally logical, but only as a closed system; mathematical logic cannot be transposed to rhetorical (or, more generally speaking, philosophical) logic. The only thing that this comic proves is that Randall does not understand the difference between science and humanism. It takes a while to identify charlatanism in the humanities precisely because there are very few axioms to which one might turn; I could not simply cite a formula that disproves the statement 'Deconstruction is inextricable from [...] the self', although on its own it does appear to be nonsense -- because it is. None of the terms are defined, and there's no rhetorical context, even if the "eight papers and two books" are implied in the supposed punchline. Is this ghostly statement meant to unmask literary criticism as a fraud? For me, it simply says that Randall doesn't know much about it, or that he only knows enough to vaguely mimick the style, sort of like me writing, "Science is stupid. 'Excited Subnomial Particulate Matter: Quantum Plasma States.' What kind of a paper title is that? Fucking science, how does it work?" Any scientist would be able to read that as nonsense: just me using words that sound "scientific," much in the same way that Randall uses words that sound "literary" -- the principle difference is that I know that I'm not an expert, whereas he thinks that he is.
He can snigger and giggle like a buffoon all he wants; challenged to actually cite exactly what it is that he finds to be so lamentably sophomoric about literary criticism, I suspect he'd be at a loss for words. Judging from his work, it would probably do him well to read a book or two.
This is why I stopped reading XKCD a long time ago. When it comes down to it, Randall is neither smart nor witty, just a self-obsessed twat. His fans aren't much better.
- lit studentJune 27, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Also: to those of you saying, "I didn't even try and still got Bs," a 'B' is not a good grade in a literature class. It's not like an orgo final where you're docked a half-point for every error. A 'B' says: "this isn't a very good paper, but it's written in English." People who go on in literary studies don't get Bs.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Although much of the above discussion was interesting and enlightening, some of the "lit" people have taken this comic a weeee bit too personally. There have been some extravagant assumptions made about the content of the comic and the intentions of the author, both of which are unnecessary.ReplyDelete
If it makes you feel better, don't read the comic, but I also wouldn't start crying because you're a lit major/grad student and "Mistah Wandall said somefing mean about witerature cwiticizm!" Acting so indignant and hurt only makes you look insecure in your discipline...as though deep down you suspect Randall is actually right. That's probably not entirely true, but probably not entirely false. Either way I suspect you and lit-dom will survive.
It's not the lit people's fault you read too much into what they're saying--maybe if you were a lit student you would be better at reading comprehension? Nobody's feelings are hurt. We're just attacking Randall's blatant ignorance.ReplyDelete
It's something science people do all the time, especially the Out And Proud nerds. They attack people for being ignorant. It is, indeed, one of the great pastimes of the internet.
In this particular case, Randall is merely reflecting the widespread belief, common among science assholes, that these fields are incredibly easy to fake your way through, and that any science person could write compelling theses and pass himself off as a lit student. This misconception is based on the Lit Classes For Complete Dumbasses that science people take, and do fairly well in, because they speak passable English. Wikipedia also contributes.
This is an incredibly annoying misconception--not because of hurt feelings, but because science people are actually pretty inept at this sort of thing, and it's annoying when they act as if they have some sort of meaningful literary skill.
Having studied lit crit at the postgraduate level, it IS easy to fake, because it's completely and utterly devoid of content. I essentially spent several years doing field research on the field, and found that marks were inversely proportional to any textual basis for one's assertions (the best marks consistently went to those who had at most read the back-cover blurb of whatever reading was assigned), and that even those who taught the material professionally had trouble taking it seriously.ReplyDelete
That's why a random word generator can get published in a peer-reviewed journal in this field, and why one of the main academic responses to a journal article ("Against Theory" from the mid 1980s) pointing this out was not to defend literary "theory", but to say that pointing out the hollowness and standardlessness of the discipline would cost jobs in the age of budget cuts in the humanities.
When this particular XKCD comic came out, I distributed it in my department, and it was a hit (sample: 30 M.A. and PhD lit "theory" students and faculty from about as many countries and prior institutional affiliations).
I just want to correct Overthinking It re: Sokal. What Sokal did was to abuse the trust of the editors of a magazine he already knew wasn't peer-reviewed by insisting they publish his nonsense against their better judgment. They even asked him to revise it, but he refused.ReplyDelete
Everyone jumps on Social Text for not being peer-reviewed, but why should they have been? Is there some law I don't know about?
There are some really important criticisms of postmodernism that can be made, but Sokal's hoax is not one of them.
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I was just looking at who OSU, USC, and Stanford played. I don't even think anyone they even played is in the top 25 anymore after this weekend. Seriously go look. The only time USC or Stanford even played a current top 25 team is when they played each other . Oregon will probably keep dropping in the polls. Even putting up 70 on a conference opponent probably won't help them. Strength of schedule will possibly be Oregons demise. Go look at OSU and USC's schedule and tell me how they are even a top 20 team with those schedules and who have they beat, its Boise State level garbage. Stanfords claim to fame is beating USC lol. And some d bag Sonic guy was trying to say I should be embarrassed comparing the Pac-12 to the Big-12? Pac-12 is competing for the 4th best conference with the ACC at this point, forget about 2nd best.
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Let us assume that we've tried our hand at writing our own jQuery plugins at some point and we're comfortable putting together something that works. It's functional. It does what it needs to do, but perhaps we feel it could be structured better. Maybe it could be more flexible or could be designed to address more of the issues developers commonly run into. If this sounds familiar, then you might find this chapter useful. In it, we're going to explore a number of jQuery plugin patterns that have worked well for other developers in the wild.
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If you don't feel quite ready for this just yet, I'm happy to recommend the official jQuery Plugins/Authoring guide, Ben Alman's plugin style guide and Remy Sharp's " Signs of a Poorly Written jQuery Plugin ." as reading material prior to starting this section.
jQuery plugins have few concrete rules, which is one of the reasons for the incredible diversity in how they are implemented across the community. At the most basic level, we can write a plugin simply by adding a new function property to jQuery's
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This is great for compactness, but the following would be a better foundation to build on:
Here, we've wrapped our plugin logic in an anonymous function. To ensure that our use of the
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We have now reviewed some jQuery plugin fundamentals, but a lot more could be done to take this further. A Lightweight Start is the first complete plugin design pattern we'll be exploring and it covers some best practices that we can use for basic everyday plugin development, taking into account common gotchas worth applying.
While most of the patterns below will be explained, I recommend reading through the comments in the code, because they will offer more insight into why certain best practices are applied.
I should also mention that none of this would be possible without the previous work, input and advice of other members of the jQuery community. I've listed them inline with each pattern so that one can read up on their individual work if interested.
Let's begin our deeper look at plugin patterns with something basic that follows best practices (including those in the jQuery plugin-authoring guide). This pattern is ideal for developers who are either new to plugin development or who just want to achieve something simple (such as a utility plugin). A Lightweight Start uses the following:
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