Word: rupp
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...created the Rupp Committee, an advisory body, to study how the University could better use its resources for the teaching of ethics. Named for its chair, Rice University President George Rupp--then a Divinity School Dean, the committee recognized the flaws in the system and recommended that Bok form a University-wide program similar to the one he eventually established last year...
...their respective professions and in the basics of ethical theory. "The committee concluded unanimously that there were very few people who were both well educated in the history and philosophy of ethics and who had also absorbed the culture of a profession, and we tried to address that problem," Rupp says. "We wanted to prepare people best suited to do either...
Which is where Thompson steps in. As director of the program which arose from the Rupp Committee's referendum, he coordinates the activities of an inter-faculty committee and a group of senior fellows from the various faculties who are responsible for orchestrating the program. Next fall, a group of four outside scholars will be the first ethics fellows sponsored by the program...
With six appearances in the Final Four, he has now pulled abreast of the University of Kentucky's fabled Adolph Rupp, a mean truth to many of the college-basketball fans "out in the state." Everywhere but Louisville, and sometimes in Louisville, the Cardinals are still referred to as "the blackbirds." While U.K. broke its color line way back in 1970, the Wildcat affirmative-action program pales in contrast to U.L.'s. It is conceivable that Duke had more rooters in the state of Kentucky than in both of the Carolinas...
...Rupp was effective but he didn't finish the job of refunding the whole school," said Strugnell. "We all agree we need more money...