the fiLibuster

++Calendar++
Sunday. Bluebook Party. 8.30. Branford D12.
Monday. Lib Dinner. 5.30. Commons.
Wednesday. Debate. 7.30. J. Edwards Common Rm. [R: Genius is a social phenomenon]

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1-3. Event Descriptions

++News & Reviews++
//1// Sunday, 1.09.05. Bluebook Party to be held in Branford D12 from 8.30 until we quit.
Stop by to join us in reviewing the importance & effect of classes other than socioeconomic ones. Find out, before you shop, which where to find the poor, brilliant scrivener whose work and instruction will undoubtedly enlighten you. Or stop by to share your own thoughts. Or just stop by to see some Libs.

//2// Monday, 1.10.05. Lib Dinner in Commons at 5.30
Still in Commons. Still at 5.30. Still under the portrait of Bush, President #41. Still on Mondays. Join us for our conventional conviviality.

//3// Wednesday, 1.12.05. Debate in the JE Common Room at 7.30.
Resolved: Genius is a Social Phenomenon.
Is genius an inherent aspect of an individual, or is genius defined by social expectations & evaluation? Can a genius only flourish with the proper support, like leisure time for arts & letters, so that only the rich are geniuses? Is anyone truly a genius, since revolutionary ideas are often just well-phrased collections of the rumblings of a society? Come to the debate to hear at least some of these questions addressed, or to be the genius who answers all of them.

++ Links++

//1// [ http://www.uah.edu/woolf/roomout.html ]: Outline synopsis of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. Woolf suggests that the genius of many a woman in the past has been lost to society because she lacked "money and a room of her own." Chapters 3 and 4 are particularly relevant.
The full text is available online [ http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/ ]

//2// [ http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/mismeasure/genius/research02.html ]: Brief summary of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner explicitly states that intelligence is culturally defined when he writes that, "Intelligence is a biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture." Got a problem with that? Come say so.
Additional information at [ http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/mitheory.shtml ]

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