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| − | Nobody's really sure what | + | Nobody's really sure what the '''Committee on Global Thought''' does. It seems to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as [[Jeffrey Sachs]], [[Joseph Stiglitz]], and [[Orhan Pamuk]], in the limelight. It is, however, well-funded and its events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent. |
| − | Fun Fact: | + | Fun Fact: the group came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
The name is a ripoff of the [[University of Chicago]]'s much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own [[PhD]]s. | The name is a ripoff of the [[University of Chicago]]'s much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own [[PhD]]s. | ||
Revision as of 19:23, 5 August 2007
Nobody's really sure what the Committee on Global Thought does. It seems to be a PR move, designed to keep Columbia's "superstar faculty", such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Orhan Pamuk, in the limelight. It is, however, well-funded and its events have good, free food, even if the content ranges variously from the incomprehensible to the incoherent.
Fun Fact: the group came up with the slogan "Think globally, act locally."
The name is a ripoff of the University of Chicago's much older and more intellectually rigorous Committee on Social Thought, which actually awards its own PhDs.
