The Ethics of Racist Monuments

In this chapter we focus on the debate over publicly-maintained racist monuments as it manifests in the mid-2010s Anglosphere, primarily in the US (chiefly regarding the over 700 monuments devoted to the Confederacy), but to some degree also in Britain and Commonwealth countries, especially South Africa (chiefly regarding monuments devoted to figures and events associated with colonialism and apartheid). After pointing to some representative examples of racist monuments, we discuss ways a monument can be thought racist, and neutrally categorize removalist and preservationist arguments heard in the monument debate. We suggest that both extremist and moderate removalist goals are likely to be self-defeating, and that when concerns of civic sustainability are put on moral par with those of fairness and justice, something like a Mandela-era preservationist policy is best: one which removes the most offensive of the minor racist monuments, but which focuses on closing the monumentary gap between peoples and reframing existing racist monuments

The Garbage Smuggling Case: Judgment of Division One of the Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Level People\u27s Court January 13, 1997

The American press has reported on the arrest and trial of William Ping Chen for the importation of garbage into China, alleging that he is a pawn in Sino-American relations. Whatever the political background, the decision of the Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Level People\u27s Court shows that this case was decided according to established rules of law

Dumpster Diving and the Ethical Blindspot of Trade Secret Law

Trade secret law is complex and still emerging, but throughout its development, trade secret law has consistently promoted minimum standards of commercial ethics. Indeed, promoting commercial ethics is one of trade secret law\u27s fundamental purposes. Consistent with this ethical purpose, trade secret law proscribes the use of improper means to acquire another\u27s trade secrets. Improper means of acquiring trade secrets include familiar methods of industrial espionage, such as wiretapping and eavesdropping, as well as methods that are not so familiar, like aerial surveillance

Cal Poly On-Site Water Treatment Project Proposal

This report is based off of a competition hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): the 2015 Campus RainWorks Challenge. Student teams were encouraged to design an infrastructure that could manage storm water, benefit campus life, and promote sustainability. The report summarizes the engineering aspects that support the competition submittal. The design is to treat campus wastewater on-site and to a suitable level for either reuse or discharge into Brizzolara Creek