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female Nobel laureates
Mark
(if you're confused, skip down about 15 lines of text and read)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Alan Dove wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Vikas N Shah wrote:
>
> > (1) Racism and (2) Arguments irrelevent to the real world. Hmmm.
> > Speaking from the perspective of a minority student who really does
> > feel that debate is an activity that I do primarily because I think
> > it is fun -- not because I think that it will give me an inroad or
> > experience with subjects I will be dealing with EVER again in my life
> > (I am a biochemistry major headed -- hopefully -- for research) -- I
> > think that these issues are distinct from each other and from the
> <snip>
>
> As others on the list are probably tired of hearing me say, science majors
> should be actively recruited to debate, not so much because it would be
> good for debate, but because it would be good for science. As you point
> out later in your post, the specific information learned in this activity
> is largely irrelevant - it's the process that matters. When you've heard
> more than one Nobel laureate stumble and mutter his way through an
> hour-long seminar, losing half his audience in the process, the importance
> of debate experience (or I.E.) becomes painfully obvious. Unfortunately,
> in addition to possible family pressure, there is general ignorance of the
> usefulness of this activity within the scientific community, such that my
> undergraduate advisor regarded it as an "interesting hobby," and little
> more.
>
> Your experience of racism (or its absence) in debate is reassuring. I
> only wish that SUNY-Morrisville had gotten the same impression.
>
> --Alan
>
> __________________
> Alan Dove
> N3IMU
> ad52@columbia.edu
> http://hs1304silver1.cpmc.columbia.edu/Alan_Dove/Alan.html
>
>
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