Raymond,
One of my hallucinations is that FRIAM could form a university. Not like
American universities, but more on the model of the ancient European
universities. No campus, no dormitories, just a city and tutors and
students who come to live in the city and work with the tutors.
Unfortunately, we don't have in place the one coercive element that made
all that work: a standard system of qualifying exams for which everybody
was preparing. The other problem is that once they fix the rail yards and
fill it with froo-froo shops, no student would be able to afford to walk
the streets of Santa Fe, let alone live here. But still. Perhaps it could
become the Graduate Institute of CSF and we take over their dormitories.
Actually, the way CSF is set up, we could start doing it there and they
practically wouldn't know the difference.
Anyway, it's a hallucination.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
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> [Original Message]
> From: Raymond C. Parks <
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> To: <
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> Date: 1/11/2005 10:34:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Diversity%20University%2C%20Inc.
>
> Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > Our wedstech discussion last Webday about creating a virtual Janes put
me in mind of this thing which was a sort of dungeons and dragons
university called MooDu. (It is also the name of a Vermont Organic
Fertilizer company, so dont get your hopes TOO high.
> >
> > I was puzzled when nobody at the table seemed to have heard of it. Has
anybody else? If it is still active, the url is
> >
http://moo.du.org/>
> Ah, so someone has finally gone and done it. A group of like-minded
> folks here in ABQ attempted to start a freenet (as in community network,
> not anti-censorship software) back in the early '90s. We tried to start
> the project with a grant to work with KUNM (or maybe KNME, I forget) to
> provide a Multi-User Shared Hallucination (MUSH) Object Oriented (MOO)
> classroom for distance learning. Unfortunately, our partner did not
> share the same vision and after we had already received positive
> feedback from the educational foundation to which we had applied, the
> University of New Mexico Provost nixed the project. That was one among
> many negative interactions with UNM that led me to believe that
> university is an arbitrary bureaucratic morass.
>
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> Ray Parks
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