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Ubuntu lives!; and is now a part of Duke . . .
Topic Started: Jan 22 2009, 07:57 PM (3,086 Views)
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Carolyn says
Jan 22 2009, 08:49 PM
Such a pletora of artistic culture to choose from at Duke.

I know if I were a parent paying $45,000 a year for my child's education, I also would have a hard time deciding between the lighted sparkler up the whore's ass or watching the Ubuntu Land Orca shatter concrete as she danced.

It now appears that Duke's done the impossible. Made community college look better in comparison.

Duke University - so much bang for the buck.
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Jan 23 2009, 08:05 AM
Ubuntu. Always one consonant short of the truth.
:roflmao: :roflmao:

You have been very naughty!

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Weird, I was reading this thread when my daughter came in the room and wanted me to find her a picture of flames for a school project. I opened another tab and did a google image search on "flames". I'm not sure how to post the picture but on the first page of the results is an image of flames with the word "ubuntu" in the middle. Turns out the “ubuntu” is also a name for an open source version of Linux…
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darby
Jan 23 2009, 01:26 PM
I'm looking for the first male volunteer from the ranks of the UBUNTU devotees to submit himself for castration as a showing of solidarity to the cause.

Now as Larry King says it's "cool to be black".. How soon before it will be "cool to be a eunuch"
Be very very quiet, I'm hunting Ubuntu to Castrate. :elmer:
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Jan 23 2009, 05:18 PM
darby
Jan 23 2009, 01:26 PM
I'm looking for the first male volunteer from the ranks of the UBUNTU devotees to submit himself for castration as a showing of solidarity to the cause.

Now as Larry King says it's "cool to be black".. How soon before it will be "cool to be a eunuch"
Be very very quiet, I'm hunting Ubuntu to Castrate. :elmer:
Ahh, just shoot them. There ain't nuttin' to cut off.

:bill:
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I hate to break up the thread but I saw that info on UBUNTU over a week ago and didn't comment because I wasn't sure the two groups were in any way related. In my recall UBUNTU was a women's led group and the guy pictured is certainly a guy. Not to mention the fact that he has the logo for the linux O/S in the background (clue).


It's simply a coincidence.
Edited by wayne fontes, Jan 23 2009, 08:04 PM.
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coincidence perhaps.. Ubuntu is a fairly newly coined popular word. I visited the student web site and they are vague about their purposes. They may just have chosen that word to describe their living group.

Everything that was said about Ubuntu of Truthtelling etc is accurate.

But your point is well taken.. I will further check out who is in the group
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darby
Jan 23 2009, 01:26 PM
I'm looking for the first male volunteer from the ranks of the UBUNTU devotees to submit himself for castration as a showing of solidarity to the cause.

Now as Larry King says it's "cool to be black".. How soon before it will be "cool to be a eunuch"
Maybe he will say he was not meant to survive. Baldo, I listened to it all. Gold star?
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Wayne was right. I e-mailed Eddie Zhang who is President of Duke's Ubuntu and received this reply

Ubuntu Living Group has absolutely no connection with the Durham UBUNTU group.

We are a group of sophomores at Duke interested in civic engagement and social change issues - ranging from global health, to environmental policy, to access to education, etc.

The group was named after the African concept of "humanity towards others." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)

Thanks for your concern,
Eddie


I take him at his word
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Baldo
Jan 23 2009, 09:31 PM
Wayne was right. I e-mailed Eddie Zhang who is President of Duke's Ubuntu and received this reply

Ubuntu Living Group has absolutely no connection with the Durham UBUNTU group.

We are a group of sophomores at Duke interested in civic engagement and social change issues - ranging from global health, to environmental policy, to access to education, etc.

The group was named after the African concept of "humanity towards others." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)

Thanks for your concern,
Eddie


I take him at his word
The laptop I am using right now is running Ubuntu. The distribution came with an explanation of the meaning of the word, and I was floored. According to Archbishop Desmond Tutu,

"A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."

Now I understand why most African countries are so prosperous, peaceful, and democratic, especially when compared to the poor, oppressive, and lawless Western countries! They NEVER torture people in Africa, while the West is one huge Guantanamo Bay - as anyone living in the US can testify. :biggrin:
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Joan Foster

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"I wish to extend a full and complete apology to Ubuntu House at Duke University for believing that it was in any way related to UBUNTU in Durham. After having received a communication from their Vice President Ryan Echternacht, I am satisfied that I was wrong. Here is the communication in which Mr. Echternacht kindly responded to some of my questions:

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Tortmaster,

So our grouped was formed last year, by myself and 3 other freshman. Our only goal was to increase an awareness and instill a greater focus of civic engagement to Duke students.

To answer your questions:
A) Can you tell me what relationship your group has, if any, with any other UBUNTU group?
--We have no relationship to them. We had never heard of them until it was brought up in the forum.

B) Are you planning on using the UBUNTU platform at Duke to attack other Duke students?
--No. Our goals are about personal development through Service Learning. Attacking fellow students is not at all something that would help us, nor something we would ever do.

C) Would you put that in writing in a return email?
--Yes, and you have my fullest permission to reprint and distribute this email.

D) What civic plans does UBUNTU have for the next year?
--Currently, we are forming a partnership with Genesis Home, a local half-way home in Durham. We also have sponsored a day long personal development retreat with the young men at the Durham Nativity School. Also, we are forming a mentorship program with the young men at the Durham Nativity School (related to, but distinct from the aforementioned day camp). And finally, we are in the processing of forming a Duke Engage trip. We intend to continue these activities next year.

E) What civic plans do the individual members have?
--Each of our members is involved with the activities that we do. Our members are also involved with a microfinance program in Uganda, Duke Engage trips to the Philippines, the SOL program (Service Opportunities in Leadership), as well as other courses in the Hart Leadership Program.

F) Has anyone in your group contacted any other UBUNTU groups?
--Not as of the writing of this email. As far as I know, the Durham Ubuntu groups created during the Lacrosse incident have disbanded. I could be wrong, but I have not heard of them during my time hear at Duke (until they were brought up during the forum conversation).

G) Did Nowicki, Chapman, Moneta or anyone else (before the Chronicle brouhaha) inform any of your group about the actions of UBUNTU during the Duke false accusation case?
--No. Truthfully, I do not know if this was intentional in the vein of leaving the past in the past, or if it was that they truly forgot (or had never heard of that particular group). Regardless, no mention of the past group had ever been made to us.

H) Are you planning on asking current LAX players how they feel about the name UBUNTU, including those LAX players who are still on the team, and who actually had to live through that nightmare?
--No. So far, there has been nothing but positive student support. If such an issue arises, we will handle it then. But I think the players understand that there is no connection, (and that if they noticed the name connection, they realize that it was unintentional).

I) If I am satisfied that you are in no way connected to any other UBUNTU organization, I will be more than happy to make a complete apology in the Duke Chronicle blogs for that. On the other hand, if you are not related to any other UBUNTU organization, but you still intend on keeping the UBUNTU name, I believe it is your organization that will need to apologize for that (along with Nowicki, Moneta and Chapman).
--We intend to continue using the name Ubuntu. We feel that the philosophy it represents is more powerful that its unfortunate involvement in the Lacrosse incident. However, I will be making a post in the forum apologizing for the inadvertent connection that we formed. Please accept this apology as the official apology from all involved parties.

If you have any further questions, or an associate of yours has any questions, please contact me again.

Thank you contacting me.

Regards,
--ryan echternacht

VP of Ubuntu

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I continue to completely disagree with Ubuntu House of Duke's use of the name Ubuntu, as I think there will be problems in the future with confusion as to the two Ubuntus. But, these men are obviously going to try to do some good. I wish them the best of luck with that along with my apologies. MOO! (My opinions only) Gregory

1/28/09 11:47 AM
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darby
Jan 23 2009, 01:26 PM
I'm looking for the first male volunteer from the ranks of the UBUNTU devotees to submit himself for castration as a showing of solidarity to the cause.

Now as Larry King says it's "cool to be black".. How soon before it will be "cool to be a eunuch"
I"d like to nominate Sam Hummel..but doubt that he has any.
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Jan 29 2009, 09:20 AM
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"I wish to extend a full and complete apology to Ubuntu House at Duke University for believing that it was in any way related to UBUNTU in Durham. After having received a communication from their Vice President Ryan Echternacht, I am satisfied that I was wrong.
Don't know why anyone would be apologizing. Any confusion between the Duke Ubuntu and the Durham Ubuntu is due to the shortsightedness of the Duke organization to consider that it might reflect poorly on them to have the same name as the already infamous. Duh.
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The information provide about the Durham activist Group known as Ubuntu with the potbangers was correct. But the new group was very polite and quickly disavowed any connection. They handled it well!
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Jan 29 2009, 12:07 PM
Joan Foster
Jan 29 2009, 09:20 AM
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"I wish to extend a full and complete apology to Ubuntu House at Duke University for believing that it was in any way related to UBUNTU in Durham. After having received a communication from their Vice President Ryan Echternacht, I am satisfied that I was wrong.
Don't know why anyone would be apologizing. Any confusion between the Duke Ubuntu and the Durham Ubuntu is due to the shortsightedness of the Duke organization to consider that it might reflect poorly on them to have the same name as the already infamous. Duh.
Actually UBUNTU was hardly notorious nation wide. You are talking about a group of people (the new Ubuntu) who were juniors in high school, probably from out of state, when this case broke. I don't think it's reasonable to expect them to have been following the minutia of the Lax case on the internet. I don't have any problem believing that they had never heard of the original UBUNTU because the original UBUNTU was really just a small group of shrill individuals with a web site. DUH.


The kid handled it very well and probably was due an apology. Go back and reread the Chronicle thread (100 comments) with the knowledge that the two groups are entirely separate. At the end of the day Greg made what I view as a full and sincere apology, something we have seen too little of the past three years.
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