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Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2017-09-17 04:50 pm
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Academic endowments in honor of FK characters (humor!)

This wacky train of thought popped up in a conversation about how much money a billion-with-a-b dollars really is.

If you had a huge pile of money that you were to bestow as endowments on academia in honor of FK's characters, how would you distribute it per character?

  • Those I knew immediately, off the top of my head:
    1. anthropology for Nick
    2. biology for Natalie
    3. communications for Lacroix
    4. hospitality management for Janette
    5. botany for Feliks
  • Those I pondered a little:
    1. economics for Schanke
    2. criminology for Tracy
    3. psychology for Urs
    4. history for Vachon
    5. mathematics for Fleur
    6. medicine for Alma
  • Those I pondered more:
    1. sociology for Stonetree
    2. military science for Cohen
    3. philosophy for Reese
    4. nutrition for Screed
    5. business administration for Norma
    6. community studies for Grace
    7. literature for Emily
    8. graphic arts for Marian
    9. women's studies for Sofia & Amalia (different reasons!)
    10. education for Alexandra
    11. theology for Angel
    12. peace and conflict studies for the Inca

Who else? Which other disciplines? ;-D

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[personal profile] nicholas_lucien 2017-09-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
What a great idea! I would go for a more specific subfield in biology for Natalie - molecular genetics.
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[personal profile] greerwatson 2017-09-18 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Now I would have picked:

1. Social work for Janette (given her feelings about the historical treatment of women).

2. Astronomy for Fleur.

3. Multicultural and diversity studies for Screed (re prejudice against carouches).

4. Applied arts for Alma.

5. Cultural psychology for LaCroix.


I'm a bit curious about your reasons for some of them. I mean, Emily and Marian seem clear; but why military science for Cohen, education for Alexandra, history for Vachon, communications for LaCroix?

As for Nick, is this cultural anthropology? I think I'd have gone for archaeology or history, myself, given his known interests. Then again, law enforcement of some sort or another turns up repeatedly in his flashbacks.

Ah! Perhaps ethics for Nick? Ultimate source of his angst, really, that mulling over ethics.




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