CC: My Opinion

Submitted by antonio_sass on

Please, don't yell at me. I haven't seen this discussed anywhere...but I think CC Little is definitely one of the best buildings at the whole University of Michigan. Of all time. What do you guys think?

splam! i even put some drop shadow on that shit.

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bjk

December 30th, 2010 at 3:47 PM ^

Oliver Wendell Holmes was on board with his opinion in favor of forcible sterilization in Virginia: "Three generations of imbeciles is enough." According to Alan Dershowitz's forward to Clarence Darrow's autobiography, the "evolution" textbook Darrow was defending at the Scopes trial was a eugenics tract recommending forcible sterilization and other devices to sculpt a master race. William Jennings Bryan's prosecution was co-incidentally an act of resistance to eugenics. And according to Edwin Black's book, War on the Weak, money from the Rockefeller Foundation found its way to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin between the wars, and thence into the hands of Joseph Mengele, who used it to start the research on twins which reached full horrendous flower later at Auschwitz. So, maybe just a popular fad, like the Bamberg Witchcraft Trials of 1627-9?

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BlueDragon

December 30th, 2010 at 4:15 PM ^

Social Darwinism, along with the related phony science of phrenology, was around for almost a century.  I would hardly call it a popular fad.  I just find it ironic that CC's name is still posted in such a public place, on a science building no less.

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bjk

December 31st, 2010 at 2:52 AM ^

"a popular fad among the ruling elite," is what I should have said. And judging by books such as Herrnstein's-Murray's The Bell Curve, maybe not completely over yet. It took the Catholic church about 370 years to admit it over-reached with Galileo; the past lets go very slowly. We still have names such as Amherst (small-pox blankets) and FBI Hoover (tutus, egregious human-rights violations) attached to things all over the place.
I just find it ironic that CC's name is still posted in such a public place, on a science building no less.
The better analogy involving honoring an icon of obsolete pseudo-science in a public place might be that of the impact crater on the dark side of the Moon named after the alchemist Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus of Einsiedeln (Switzerland). Although, honoring someone with the naming of an impact crater may be inherently ironic, and I can't decide if the dark side of the moon can be considered a public place or not. (Certainly not a well-travelled one.) Irony will get you through many conundrums.

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VAWolverine

December 30th, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^

Mitch Rider tune- CC Rider

Whiskey- Canadian Club (CC)

Pizza Place for lunch- Ci Ci's

Where does my nephew go to high school? CC (Novi)

What do each of my eyes do (L > R)? See See

Am I looking forward to all of this drama wrapping up soon? Si si!

 

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lhglrkwg

December 30th, 2010 at 5:02 PM ^

when I was a student, the CC little bus stop was a slab of concrete with a brick box on it that was large enough to hold all of 10 people. really great from rainy and snowy days. now its frickin grand central station out there. wtf. thats all

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