I think that such a proposal would be a good thing to have......
However, perhaps having a rally, walk, or other event to help educate the students on the dangers of drinking too much would also be effective.
In my view, (and this comes from my experience as a grad student with teaching responsibilities) I think that is is important to establish a community where our students know that we care about them and want them to exercise judgment when it comes to drinking.

Outstanding! My favorite part of this message was the example that you used of Chloe. I enjoyed the point that you made with respect to the fact that she used writing in order to articulate her life experiences. In the same way, social media is used out of a desire to share----to articulate one's experiences. I feel that it is important to realize that the use of social media does not take away from a person the desire to share which, I think, is the same reason for why humans have been writing for thousands of years. Thanks!

Sam, thanks for your comment. I think that the tension for me (in my example that is) was related to who or what constitutes as the two players in this notion of irony. In short, due to my failure to reread Haraway's quote(or a simple misunderstanding of it) I did not capture the full idea of what irony is(as Haraway defines it). What I was attempting to bring out in my example however, is the idea that there needs to be some sort of back and forth between a new idea and a long standing structural one. In a dialectic model this notion of back and forth is what allows it to happen. I was thinking about many new ideas/concepts that attempt to challenge/change the old concepts,however, nothing seems to change because the old concepts do not "think" that they need changing. But, in my thinking about this example, I failed to realize that the notion of irony does include dialectical movements.

Thank you Dr. Long for helping me to clarify this! So, irony is the colliding of human(--ity; or the change or force that humans want to make?) versus the traditional structures? Or is it that humans are at the same time traditional/ or structures?(the cyborg)

I will also take a look at Freud's essay.

And I see the part of the quote that deals with the dialectic.

You are correct! As a grad student, I am looking forward to engaging philosophy in this class in a different way....I know that my experience philosophy in Phil 479 will help to challenge the way that I have always engaged thinking(both theoretically and otherwise). As both a student and a new prof, I hope to become better at having dialogue.

I am excited to be a member of this class and begin blogging about Critical Theory!