Thursday, October 14, 2004
Nameification
Instead of donating the usual bench or fountain to UC Berkeley, the class of 1968 is hoping to leave a more personal mark on campus—launching a campaign to raise between $500,000 and $1 million to develop a Center for Social and Political Civility.
Haha! "Center for Social and Political Civility." I love these names. Especially a center for civility in Berkeley.
The work of the center will focus on “ways to build a society based on civil liberties, fairness, and democratic participation by people of diverse personal backgrounds and political orientations,” according to the center’s mission statement.
Civil liberties and civility are so not compatible. Neither are democratic participation and civility. Nor, in fact, democratic participation and fairness. Nor even fairness and civil liberties. But hey, go for it, guys.
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