今回は小ネタ。
米国はマサチューセッツにあるスミス大学（Smith College：女子大）なんて所で、「（学食が）地元産食材の野菜食だけになる」なんて嘘話が出てた模様。
・Fed false logic, campus eats up a hoax and revolts（2011年10月25日 boston.com）
なんだか良くわからないこの騒動。
さしあたっては、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から、前半部分を（略
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NORTHAMPTON -
All last week, students at Smith College were buzzing over a rumor that the school was going completely vegetarian and locavore.
There were protests and counter-protests, with slogans chalked on walkways.
There was a Twitter feed that caught the attention of VegNews, “America’s premier vegan lifestyle magazine.’’
At a student government meeting, the dining services manager came under attack: How did she expect students to pass their midterms without coffee?
But the Smith administration wasn’t really planning to ban meat, food from outside New England, or anything else.
The whole thing was a hoax - one in a decade of annual pranks[恒例のイタズラ、という意味] perpetrated by professors Jay Garfield and Jim Henle as part of their introductory class in logic.
The point is to teach rhetoric and argument, albeit in an unorthodox way.
Logic classes get dry.
Typically, students spend a lot of time working through inscrutable proofs on the chalkboard.
So Garfield and Henle try to liven things up by inventing a rumor just this side of believable, then assigning their 100 students to convince the campus that it’s real by whatever means the students think will be most effective - fliers, Facebook campaigns, word-of-mouth.
“It wasn’t even drug-assisted,’’ Garfield saidof the day the two hit on the idea.
“We’re just brilliant and slightly weird.’’
The administration may agree with the slightly weird part.
When people believe Garfield and Henle’s hoaxes - and some always do - trouble can ensue.
There was the time the professors planted the rumor that Smith, a women’s college, was planning to fire all of its male faculty members, including themselves.
The president was deluged with angry letters.
（以下略）
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論理学初級の授業、ね。
で、狙いは、レトリックと論理展開に通常と異なる形での表現を教えるってことか。
それを教えるため、GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏は「信じられる嘘話」を作って学生に言ってた、と。
チラシや Facebook や口コミで広まるくらいの嘘話を・・・。
しかも、過去にこの 2人が似たようなことをやってるってのが何とも（苦笑）
「スミス大学の男性職員を全員クビにする」なんて、ある意味冗談としては「アリ」けど・・・。
話を戻す。
件の嘘話を授業で聞いた学生の反応は、それなりに割れていたらしい。
以下、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から中盤部分を（略
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（中略）
As for the vegetarian/locavore imbroglio, about a third of Garfield and Henle’s students said they thought they had fooled the campus.
After all, the college already makes a point of buying local veggies when possible, and the trustees had met the previous weekend - so in theory they could have OK’d the plan in secret.
Half the students in the class had been instructed to come up with arguments in favor of the proposition (a vegetarian campus is a healthy campus).
The other half were told to argue in public against it (students wouldn’t be getting enough protein).
All were sworn to secrecy and required to go along with the pretense.
“My house was up in arms,’’ said one student in the class, Jesse Klein.
“It was all we talked about at dinner.’’
Another classmate, Jan Harris, decided the best way to fuel the rumor was to tape a panel debating the pros and cons of vegetarianism for the college TV station.
She invited as a guest speaker a friend who pretended to be from the “Smith Healthy Living Club.’’
The speaker was so convincing that several people e-mailed her, wanting to join the club, which does not exist.
（以下略）
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嘘話を作った2人も随分人が悪いようで。
ありもしない会の名前を持ち出して、「大学の学食は野菜食限定になる」なんて言い出すんだから（苦笑）
件の嘘話を聞いた学生が全員鵜呑みにしなかったのは、スミス大学や GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏にとってせめてもの救い・・・なのか？
だが、この嘘話、まだ終わりじゃなかった。
実は、今週月曜日になって GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏がクビになった、なんて話が出た。
無論嘘だが。
以下、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から終盤部分を（略
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（中略）
At 11 a.m., Christ showed up at Garfield and Henle’s class and announced she was firing them.
The school had been planning to go vegetarian and locavore, she said - it just hadn’t been ready to announce the news - and Garfield and Henle had blown its cover.
The president said she was outraged.
A few students frowned.
Could this be true?
Also, Christ went on, she had discovered that Garfield and Henle owned a share of a local farm that had been signed to supply the school with rutabagas[アブラナ科の根菜の一種] all winter and thus had a conflict of interest.
She hoisted aloft a bag of huge, round rutabagas for effect.
By the time the provost walked in and interrupted her to explain that Garfield and Henle could not be fired - they have tenure - it was clear to everyone that this, too, was a hoax.
Garfield and Henle spent the rest of class writing proofs on the board.
The students quietly took notes.
Christ went back to her office.
There were only two problems left: how the class would top this prank next year, and what to do with the rutabagas.
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うははははは。
GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏（とスミス大学）は、完全に学生の反応を楽しんでるな（謎笑）。
まぁ、2人がクビになるって話を嘘だと見抜いた学生が多いことを踏まえれば、実際はどうだか知らんが・・・。
ってか、boston.com の記事の〆も何かおかしいぞ。
どう読んでも、来年の論理学初級の授業で出す嘘話を期待してるとしか・・・。
それにしても。
日本の大学で、こういう嘘話を出す教授がいたらどういう展開になったんだろうか？
米国はマサチューセッツにあるスミス大学（Smith College：女子大）なんて所で、「（学食が）地元産食材の野菜食だけになる」なんて嘘話が出てた模様。
・Fed false logic, campus eats up a hoax and revolts（2011年10月25日 boston.com）
なんだか良くわからないこの騒動。
さしあたっては、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から、前半部分を（略
---- 以下引用 ----
NORTHAMPTON -
All last week, students at Smith College were buzzing over a rumor that the school was going completely vegetarian and locavore.
There were protests and counter-protests, with slogans chalked on walkways.
There was a Twitter feed that caught the attention of VegNews, “America’s premier vegan lifestyle magazine.’’
At a student government meeting, the dining services manager came under attack: How did she expect students to pass their midterms without coffee?
But the Smith administration wasn’t really planning to ban meat, food from outside New England, or anything else.
The whole thing was a hoax - one in a decade of annual pranks[恒例のイタズラ、という意味] perpetrated by professors Jay Garfield and Jim Henle as part of their introductory class in logic.
The point is to teach rhetoric and argument, albeit in an unorthodox way.
Logic classes get dry.
Typically, students spend a lot of time working through inscrutable proofs on the chalkboard.
So Garfield and Henle try to liven things up by inventing a rumor just this side of believable, then assigning their 100 students to convince the campus that it’s real by whatever means the students think will be most effective - fliers, Facebook campaigns, word-of-mouth.
“It wasn’t even drug-assisted,’’ Garfield saidof the day the two hit on the idea.
“We’re just brilliant and slightly weird.’’
The administration may agree with the slightly weird part.
When people believe Garfield and Henle’s hoaxes - and some always do - trouble can ensue.
There was the time the professors planted the rumor that Smith, a women’s college, was planning to fire all of its male faculty members, including themselves.
The president was deluged with angry letters.
（以下略）
---- 引用以上 ----
論理学初級の授業、ね。
で、狙いは、レトリックと論理展開に通常と異なる形での表現を教えるってことか。
それを教えるため、GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏は「信じられる嘘話」を作って学生に言ってた、と。
チラシや Facebook や口コミで広まるくらいの嘘話を・・・。
しかも、過去にこの 2人が似たようなことをやってるってのが何とも（苦笑）
「スミス大学の男性職員を全員クビにする」なんて、ある意味冗談としては「アリ」けど・・・。
話を戻す。
件の嘘話を授業で聞いた学生の反応は、それなりに割れていたらしい。
以下、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から中盤部分を（略
---- 以下引用 ----
（中略）
As for the vegetarian/locavore imbroglio, about a third of Garfield and Henle’s students said they thought they had fooled the campus.
After all, the college already makes a point of buying local veggies when possible, and the trustees had met the previous weekend - so in theory they could have OK’d the plan in secret.
Half the students in the class had been instructed to come up with arguments in favor of the proposition (a vegetarian campus is a healthy campus).
The other half were told to argue in public against it (students wouldn’t be getting enough protein).
All were sworn to secrecy and required to go along with the pretense.
“My house was up in arms,’’ said one student in the class, Jesse Klein.
“It was all we talked about at dinner.’’
Another classmate, Jan Harris, decided the best way to fuel the rumor was to tape a panel debating the pros and cons of vegetarianism for the college TV station.
She invited as a guest speaker a friend who pretended to be from the “Smith Healthy Living Club.’’
The speaker was so convincing that several people e-mailed her, wanting to join the club, which does not exist.
（以下略）
---- 引用以上 ----
嘘話を作った2人も随分人が悪いようで。
ありもしない会の名前を持ち出して、「大学の学食は野菜食限定になる」なんて言い出すんだから（苦笑）
件の嘘話を聞いた学生が全員鵜呑みにしなかったのは、スミス大学や GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏にとってせめてもの救い・・・なのか？
だが、この嘘話、まだ終わりじゃなかった。
実は、今週月曜日になって GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏がクビになった、なんて話が出た。
無論嘘だが。
以下、2011年10月25日分 boston.com『Fed false logic～』から終盤部分を（略
---- 以下引用 ----
（中略）
At 11 a.m., Christ showed up at Garfield and Henle’s class and announced she was firing them.
The school had been planning to go vegetarian and locavore, she said - it just hadn’t been ready to announce the news - and Garfield and Henle had blown its cover.
The president said she was outraged.
A few students frowned.
Could this be true?
Also, Christ went on, she had discovered that Garfield and Henle owned a share of a local farm that had been signed to supply the school with rutabagas[アブラナ科の根菜の一種] all winter and thus had a conflict of interest.
She hoisted aloft a bag of huge, round rutabagas for effect.
By the time the provost walked in and interrupted her to explain that Garfield and Henle could not be fired - they have tenure - it was clear to everyone that this, too, was a hoax.
Garfield and Henle spent the rest of class writing proofs on the board.
The students quietly took notes.
Christ went back to her office.
There were only two problems left: how the class would top this prank next year, and what to do with the rutabagas.
---- 引用以上 ----
うははははは。
GARFIELD 氏と HENLE 氏（とスミス大学）は、完全に学生の反応を楽しんでるな（謎笑）。
まぁ、2人がクビになるって話を嘘だと見抜いた学生が多いことを踏まえれば、実際はどうだか知らんが・・・。
ってか、boston.com の記事の〆も何かおかしいぞ。
どう読んでも、来年の論理学初級の授業で出す嘘話を期待してるとしか・・・。
それにしても。
日本の大学で、こういう嘘話を出す教授がいたらどういう展開になったんだろうか？
