• Machina and Siderits, "What's The Reason?," The Foundations Book (Part 1)
• Kelly Lantau, "Do you see what I see?" Daily Vidette 10/21/97, p. 4
• have an e-mail account, send a message to the instructor (gmklass@ilstu.edu) using Eudora.

Assignment due (Thursday): Circle the main conclusion in the Lantau essay, underline the main reasons supporting the conclusion.

• Machina and Siderits, "What's The Reason?," The Foundations Book (Part 2)
• Steven Goldberg, The Inevitability of Patriarchy

Assignment due:

• Complete first try at Mallard "Identifying the Conclusion" quizzes (by Wednesday 8/29 2:00 pm) {assignments}

• Machina and Siderits, "What's The Reason?," The Foundations Book (Part 4)
• read The Sunflower

Assignment due (Thursday): Three-page essay on the Sunflower {assignments}

Homework:

Read both pairs
Outline one of the two pairs of hate crimes arguments

Two paragraph essay evaluating which of the two is the stronger argument.

Read Foundations Books 137-180

• Hate Crime 1:
  Nat Hentoff " The crime of hate" , The Washington Times, October 9, 2000
  Blake Cornish, NGLTF Federal Legislative Lawyer, "Hate Crimes Legislation and the First Amendment

• Hate Crime 2:
  Donald Ponder "Remarks on SB390, Hate Crimes Legislation"
  Stephen Chapman "Laws In Search of a Need

• Anthony Arcieri and Green, Marianne E, Majoring in Success :

• A Brief History of Illinois State University (Harmon)

• A Select List of References on the History of Illinois State University (Rayfield)

• The Difference Between High School and College (Meiland)

• What is a University All About? (Machina)

• Machina and Siderits, "What's The Reason?," The Foundations Book (Part 3)
• Reparations:
  Robinson, Randall, "The Case for Reparations: When?,
  Jay Parker, An Apology and Reparations for Slavery?
• Affirmative Action:
  Robert Jensen, "Unearned Privilege: White people need to acknowledge benefits of unearned privilege."
  Walter Williams, "Affirmative Action Can't Be Mended"

• Arts censorship:
  Bob Herbert: "In America: A Chill Grows in Brooklyn"
  Jacob Sullum "Flung Dung,"

• Arts censorship:
  James K. Glassman, "Government Money Makes Bad Art," The Washington Post. July 18, 1995
  Congressman Martin Olav Sabo, "Why America Mustn't Abolish  the National Endowment for the Arts" Minneapolis Star Tribune. September 24, 1997

• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:
  Senator Joseph Lieberman (D., Conn) Statement on introducing bill S. 411
  Mortimer B. Zuckerman, " The Caribou Conundrum,"

Thursday: Library Training Session

• Teaching:
  Howard Gardner and E.D. Hirsch Jr., Two Views on How to Get Johnny to Read and Think, New York Times, September 11, 1999
• New math:
  Lynne Cheney Once Again, Basic Skills Fall Prey To a Fad
  Thomas Romberg  Mediocre Is Not Good Enough
• Assisted suicide:
  Steve Duin "Kate Cheney still doesn't rest in peace"
  Bernard Cardinal Law, "Ideas Have Consequences"
• Death penalty:
  Craig Aaron, "The Willing Executioner"
  Robert Pambianco, The Guilty Are Being Executed:

Thursday: First examination

• Lawrence Van Gelder, "Thomas Kuhn, 73; Devised Science Paradigm [Obituary]," The New York Times, June 19, 1996, p. B7.
• John Horgan, "Profile: Reluctant Revolutionary," Scientific American 264 (May, 1991).

• Nicolas Condorcet, excerpt from Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.
• J. J. Rousseau, excerpt from "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality...." 

• James McPherson, "Reconstruction Reconsidered"

Thursday: paradigm paper

Preparing a Research Paper:

• The Foundations Book, Harvey, "Writing with Sources" (chapt X)

Presentations (two each day)