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...Edelman's business school community critics seem somewhat foolish in their outrage, we should not be so quick to condemn them for standing up for the integrity of the classroom, regardless of how illusory that principle must be at any school of business...
...paradox ultimately raises the question about how legitimate it is for Columbia to have a Business School in the first place. To condemn Edelman on the grounds that he was violating standards of the acadmey rings hollow. Columbia Business School Dean Thomas Burton sounds hopelessly naive when he says that Edleman would "bias the academic atmosphere" by offering a monetary incentive to students studying how to pull-off a corporate raid effectively. How academic a setting could a how-to-corporate-raid class ever be? How does one study in an intellectual way the practicing of making lots and lots...
...noted, the U.S. has recognized Chinese sovereignty over Tibet since the 1940s and in recent years has held that the Dalai Lama is purely a religious leader and not the head of a government in exile. At the same time, however, the U.S. Senate voted 98 to 0 to condemn China for its actions in Tibet. Moreover, the Senate decided that future sales of defense materiel to China should be contingent on assurances by the President of progress on human rights issues in Tibet. The Peking government, angered by the Senate action, accused the U.S. of interfering in China...
Crime and conventional morality aside, the transmutation of base fame into gold does scratch at some deep nerve in the public psyche. Most observers would probably agree with Thomas Kerr, associate professor of business ethics at Carnegie-Mellon University, who would not condemn the "public for wanting titillating gossip" or the "media for giving the public what it wants." Yet people inevitably feel some unease because, as it is put by Eugene Secunda, New York University professor of advertising, marketing and media, "fame and infamy are often viewed in the same light...
...military. You point a finger at businessmen, educators, physicians, lawyers and almost every other segment of our society except publishers and editors. If you spent time researching your own profession, you would surely find an equivalent or even larger portion of it involved in the same activities you condemn in other fields...