Presentation by Meghan and Sasha

There has been a history of an opposition of pay inequality in the dining halls  for years.  This, however, is not only about pay, it is also about the implications that this current system can bring up at Bryn Mawr College. In our presentation, Sasha and I will go into further detail about how this unfair system came to be, How people have reacted, and how this pay inequality plays into contact zones here at Bryn Mawr.

Please read the attached link to a google doc with a few sources, including a College News Article, published in 1988, and an excerpt from a the transcription of the February 20, 2011 plenary meeting that passed and should have bettered this situation. Yet it is still an ongoing problem. 

              A shifts towards ecological intelligence becoming a salient approach to human interactions and reactions with our ecosystem relies on a shift in the way we talk and learn about the environment and a boost in the practice of human empathy.

1. Rhoads South Free Box Data - *new item* (item gone by next inventory)

1st Floor:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/03/upshot/what-you-can-do-about-climate-change.html

 “Take only pictures, leave only footprints.” --hiker’s maxim

              Humans are still coming to terms with the idea of climate change. It seems difficult for people to comprehend that a singular species can cause an entire ecological system to change. This falls under the idea of “ecological intelligence”, a term both Bruno Latour and Chet Bowers are familiar with in their articles “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene” and  “Steps to the Recovery of Ecological Intelligence”, respectively. More specifically, ecological intelligence deals with the interconnectedness of all beings on this planet. There is no such thing as an isolated species that does not affect or is not affected by the ecology.

When glaciers are melting in front of our eyes, permafrost is thawing by the second, droughts are becoming longer than before, and sea levels are rising rapidly, denying climate change becomes ridiculous. Blatant facts and overwhelming amounts of scientific evidence show that Earth is warming. Rather than debate whether or not our planet is experiencing a major temperature increase, we are at a definitive crux of history and need to move forward. At this place and time, we are in a race against time itself to determine if and how we can prevent ourselves and the Earth from destruction. In “Steps to the Recovery of Ecological Intelligence,” C.A. Chet Bowers argues that only by transitioning to an ecological form of intelligence can we address climate change.

A Disorganized Conversation between Foucault, Nietzsche, and LeGuin

Nietzsche and the Osden’s Master Morality:

In an exchange between Osden and Haito, Nietzsche’s concepts of the master and slave moralities surface.

"I was trying," she [Haito] said, "to learn some facts." She thought her tone was admirably calm. "You weren't after facts. You were trying to get at me. With some fear, some curiosity, and a great deal of distaste. The way you might poke a dead dog, to see the maggots crawl. Will you understand once and for all that I don't want to be got at, that I want to be left alone?" His skin was mottled with red and violet, his voice had risen. "Go roll in your own dung, you yellow bitch)" he shouted at her silence.”

Is Nothing Sacred? - The Divorce of the Study of Nature from the Sacred and the Spiritual

What is the earth? who is the earth?

what is ecological intelligence? - what is ecology? what is intelligence?

How can we feel the impact of our actions?

How do we truly understand our dynamic relationship with the earth?