| Florian Cramer on Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:20:24 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> A Puff Piece on Wikipedia (Fwd) |
Forwarded, with permission, from my friend tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. -
I think this raises interesting questions about the integrity and
politics of open content, collaborative online projects and knowledge
repositories.
-F
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From: anonymous <[email protected]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: A Puff Piece of Wikipedia
Dear Florian,
It appears that Wikipedia is used as an advertising outlet
for "elite institutions". Note the alterations I made
to the Johns Hopkins University entry below.
I'm sure you'll be able to pick them out.
They're only in the 1st paragraph.
My additions were replaced w/in 23 minutes!
I suspect that a PR person for JHU monitors & polices
all content relevant to them.
Johns Hopkins University
(Revision as of 15:54, 24 Sep 2003)
The Johns Hopkins University is an elite institution of higher learning
located in Baltimore, Maryland. As such, it is known to some as "The
Plantation". Most of its students are rich people being groomed for
ruling elite positions who are blissfully ignorant of the extremely
impoverished conditions that surround their highly privileged
environment. Their wealth helps drastically escalate the rents beyond
the means of working people. The university opened February 22, 1876,
with the stated goal of "The encouragement of research ... and the
advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance
the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell." (first
President Daniel Coit Gilman). It is named for Johns Hopkins, who left
seven million dollars (ill-gotten gains from gun running during the
Civil War) in his 1867 will for the foundation of The Johns Hopkins
University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Johns Hopkins was the first
research university in the United States, founded on the model of German
research institutions. As such, it was the first American university to
offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts
curriculum), and the first American university to grant doctoral
degrees.
The university was designed from the start to marry scholarship and
research, and graduate education has always been paramount. Students at
Johns Hopkins are encouraged to pursue original research at the
undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins
undergrads produce research by the time of graduation. The School of
Medicine is highly revered, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health is
renowned for contributions worldwide to preventive medicine and the
health of large populations. The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies, located in Washington D.C. is recognized as a
world leader in international affairs, diplomacy and government studies.
The university offers education internationally through centers in
China, Singapore and Italy. Johns Hopkins receives more federal research
grants than any other university, and operates the Applied Physics
Laboratory which specializes in nuclear research for the Department of
Defense. Johns Hopkins also offers superior undergraduate programs based
at the Homewood campus in Baltimore: The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts &
Sciences and the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, which contribute
to Johns Hopkins' reputation as one of the nation's most prestigious
universities. Some of the many strong departments at Johns Hopkins are
History, International Studies, English, Political Science, Biology,
German, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Art History,
Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Film and Media Studies, and
Astronomy. The French Department is recognized as a "center of
excellence" in the study of French culture and language by the
government of France.
The school's sports teams are named the Blue Jays. They participate in
the NCAA's Division III, and the Centennial Conference. The school's
most prominent sports team is their Division I lacrosse team, which has
won 42 national titles. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is adjacent
to the university.
Some well-known alumni:
Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State under Bill Clinton
John Astin - actor, Gomez Adams on The Addams Family
Russell Baker - author, Pulitzer Prize winner, host Masterpiece
Theater
John Barth - novelist
Michael Bloomberg - Founder of Bloomberg LP, mayor of New York
City
Rudy Boschwitz - Republican Senator from Minnesota
Rachel Carson - enivornmentalist, Silent Spring
J.D. Considine - music critic
Richard Ben Cramer - journalist, author What It Takes, Pulitzer
Prize winner
Wes Craven - film director
Robert W. Fogel - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
Paul Greengard - biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
Rafael Hernandez Colon - Puerto Rican governor
Alger Hiss - lawyer and accused spy
Kweisi Mfume - president of the NAACP
Merton H. Miller - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
Mike Muuss - author of ping
Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General '90-'93
P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist and journalist
Sir William Osler - physician
Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio
Martin Rodbell - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
Francis Peyton Rous - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
David Schneiderman - owner, publisher The Village Voice
Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press
Gertrude Stein - feminist, author
Frederick Jackson Turner - historian
Thorstein Veblen - economist, author The Theory of the Leisure
Class
John B. Watson - psychologist
George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize winner in physiology or
medicine
Jody Williams - Latin American Studies, Nobel Prize in Peace,
1997
Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States
Some well-known faculty:
Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political
science"
Christian B. Anfinsen - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
John Astin - famed television actor, lecturer in the Johns
Hopkins Writing Seminars department
James Mark Baldwin - philosopher
Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor '77-'81
Benjamin Carson - pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
Richard Threlkeld Cox - physicist, Cox's theorem
Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
Francis Fukuyama - political economist, author The End of History
Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Prize in Physics
G. Stanley Hall - pioneer in the field of psychology
Steve H. Hanke - economist, Presidential advisor, Cato Institute
senior fellow
Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
Hans-Hermann Hoppe - economist
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - classical scholar
Simon Kuznets - physicist, Noble Prize
Maria Goeppert-Mayer - physicist, Nobel Prize
Daniel Nathans - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
Lars Onsager - chemist, Nobel Prize
Robert G. Parr - theoretical chemist
Ronald Paulson - English specialist
Charles Peirce - logician
Ayn Rand - author The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged
Ira Remsen - chemist, discoverer of saccharin
Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
James Joseph Sylvester - mathematician
Harold Clayton Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
External links
Johns Hopkins University website
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