Word: ec10
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Gates (almost class of '77) has become nearly synonomous with "Pay attention in Ec10," "Who needs a diploma?" and "Really fucking rich." A Currierite with a more than passing interest in computers, Gates spent much of his time at the Fox. Amidst that rolicking fun, how could Gates have left? Perhaps even then he sensed that he was actually worth $39.8 billion; maybe he feared that if he hung around any longer he might have to share the wealth. Whatever the reason, he went, and, shortly thereafter, founded the Microsoft Corporation...
...irony is that nothing can be done about this particular problem. It is a result of pure capitalism and consumer choice. Any Ec10 student can tell you that if something costs less in one place than in another, people will seek that lower price...
...Ec10 mentality teaches us that there are winners (like Bill Gates) and losers (like inner city America) in our system, and that this is not only "fine," but the way it should be. And campus publications act as an endless reserve of proof that many of our fellow classmates seem to believe wholeheartedly in the sanctity of the market...
...male authority figures like Rudy Giuliani have condoned transvestitism from the moral pulpit of elected office. Giuliani's appearance last March could be the watershed in the popular acceptance of male cross-dressing. That's not to say I expect to see Marty in a dress for the next Ec10 lecture (though I dare him to); rather, opposition to cross-dressing in schools and elsewhere should, and I think will, dissipate...
...science concentrator if they learn more in lecture or lab; ask anyone who has ever volunteered at a homeless shelter if their experiences with inner-city economic realities were covered in Ec10. It is only by active engagement with the world that one becomes "educated" in any real sense of the word...