From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Re: Engineering/Sciences bashing ( Re: Any Humanities Grads out there?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 09:23:20 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@coke.eng.umd.edu


In article <92108.033550WAF102@psuvm.psu.edu>, William Fabanich <WAF102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Boy oh boy...would you give me a break!
>
>Let me first state that I am an engineering major AND a liberal arts major!
>The fool that I am I am working on 2 (count 'em 2!) degrees at once. I must adm
>it that the engineering degree (ME) takes up the most time....but the LA degree
>takes up the most effort. Now I'm not really someone who just likes to have his
>egg roll ( I just had chinese...) and eat it too, but there are both a part of
>life...and I try to enjoy all parts of life.
>

   Are you sure you're a grad student?   (The answer to your next quesion
is "Grad student elitism, of course.")
   
>When these arguments break out I just think it is because that one "side" is
>"afraid" of the other. Now you ask why should we be afraid?!? Well this is just
>a hypothosis, but when one group constantly regards another as"inferior"
>it usually is because they fear the differences...simply people fear
>things/people they don't understand. (Seems we humans have been having this
>problem for quite some time, doesn't it....hmmmm.)
>

    I fear your post.

>One thing I have never understand (I hope I never understand it) is why people
>have to look at everthing as an absolute. I could take a stab at by saying that
>people like things simplified as much as possible. I guess that makes sense.
>But it doesn't make it right. Both those in the sciences and those in the
>humanities must deal with the real world...So Wake Up and Smell Reality!
>

    Smells like Taster's Choice.

>The world, universe, dimension...etc is NOT black and white (plagiarism...)
>it's just subtle shades of grey.
>

    Darn.  Whatever happen to color?

>I think there are a few quotes that I will leave you with that I always think
>of whenever this STUPID argument comes up....
>
>      (These are approximate...don't you love parentheticals!)
>
>              "Science makes life livable....Art makes life worth living"
>
       Where does the Superbowl come in all of this?

>              "Knowledge is one, its division in to subjects is a consession
>                           to human weakness"
>

       There's too much math going on in that statement

>              "Where laws and rules are absolute justice can never be served"
>
>                    - by some very wise people
>

    Wasn't this mentioned on a Star Trek episode?

>(disclamier - my spelling sucks)
>
>
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   And you thought *my* sig was long.....

   Well, I'm not sure what to say to this.   Actually, I don't fear
humanities at all.  Doesn't mean I understand it either.  I could raise
the question as to whether professions that aren't typically taught
in colleges are looked down upon.  Do people who attend college
regardless of what they major in (even the infamous "undergraduate
studies" that seems to be a very popular major among the sports type --
ah, another prejudice) look down upon professions like garbage collection
and the like?  Are we superior to them because we think?   

    But then that's another post.   Remind me not to post again at
5 AM.  

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