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Is U.S. News College Ranking a Weapon of Math Destruction?
Get PDFThis poster presents Cathy O’Neil’s arguments from her book Weapons of Math Destruction and connects them with Columbia’s ongoing ranking scandal to show why we should view U.S. News college ranking as a WMD.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1011/thumbnail.jp
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No full textFront cover illustration: Detail of Shirley, Massachusetts, from Henry Francis Walling, Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1856. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, G3763.M5 1856 .M
Philosophy of Comedy
No full textAshley Pryor, Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Toledo, reflects on her recently completed, two week course in which students explored four major philosophical theories of comedy: play, relief, superiority and incongruity. Not only did the class consider what Aristotle and Kierkegaard had to say about incongruity, or what Kant and Shaftesbury considered comedic relief to be, they took the opportunity to examine the work of their favorite comedians and create their own comedic work in the forms of joke writing, improv, satire and sketch to produce a comedy showcase. Finally, learned ways to transfer the skills of comedic writing (creating a strong point of view, editing and revising work for clarity and force of expression, doing quick but effective and ethically responsible research for a short satiric publication) to significantly improve the effectiveness of their writing for other contexts.
This presentation was given on July 11, 2022, for the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy held in Clinton, New York
[Documents] Shaker Correspondence with the Amana Society: Charles Julius Preter and Ezra T. Stewart
Get PDFThe correspondence between Charles Julius Preter and Ezra Stewart with the Amana Inspirationists came fifty years after the two groups had first encountered each other. This interesting correspondence is presented here
“Eat, and drink, and be merry”: A Clash Over the Opening of a Benedictine Brewery in Mid-Nineteenth- Century America
No full textThe first Benedictines bent on erecting a monastery arrived in 1846, when German Benedictine Boniface Wimmer and his monks sailed from Europe to America. The following year, they founded the Saint Vincent Monastery in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, on still untamed and rough land. Controversy and chaos plagued Saint Vincent’s journey from pioneer monastery to archabbey.
An issue that arose and took prominence in the early history of Saint Vincent was the controversy surrounding the monks’ plan for establishing a brewery, which church temperance activists fiercely opposed. The brewery controversy exemplifies how the roles of Wimmer’s and his monks’ German cultural identity and Catholic religious beliefs clashed with American temperance progressive activism, and shows the complexities of the hierarchy and patronage system which supported Benedictine American communal societies in the nineteenth century
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No full textBack cover illustration: The Phoenix Mill in 1883 from Seth Chandler, History of the Town of Shirley, Massachusetts. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton Colleg
Accessible and Intuitive Mathematical Notation
Get PDFFor math learners with disabilities, engagement with traditional mathematical notation can be difficult or impossible. Here, we explore two examples of the ways that notation can fail disabled students. We also note how accommodating for these disabilities allows us to imagine better ways of serving all students through notational practices.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1001/thumbnail.jp
Ranked Choice Voting: Who’s the real winner?
Get PDFRanked choice voting is a voting system in which voters rank candidates in order or preference. The winning candidate is determined by eliminating candidates and reassigning their votes until one has a majority. It provides solutions to some of the fundamental issues with traditional voting. But is it more fair? Should it be instituted in American democratic elections?https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1002/thumbnail.jp