Difference between revisions of "Committee on Global Thought"

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*[http://socialthought.uchicago.edu/ UChicago's Committee on Social Thought]
 
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Revision as of 13:36, 23 April 2008

Nobody's really sure what the Committee on Global Thought does. It was created on December 14, 2005 and seems to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. It is, however, well-funded and its events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent.

Fun Fact: the group came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally."

The name is a ripoff of the University of Chicago's much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own PhDs.

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