For the third year in a row, Student Council hosted Thursday evening the popular “Look Hoos Talking,” a dynamic event featuring many of the University’s most popular professors and faculty.
Look Hoos Talking was originally modeled after TED Talks, and brings together speakers from a wide range of disciplines to speak to students and other members of the University community.
The event kicked off with an opening address by Philosophy Prof. Mitchell Green, who discussed the meaning of life — criticizing the assumption that there is a single meaning.
Asst. Computer Science Prof. Mark Sherriff elicited laughs from the audience as he covered some of the absurd restrictions on internet privacy.
“You need to be educated in what is going wrong with your internet privacy,” Sherriff said. “We are getting to a point where internet access needs to be as open, and as consistent, and as pervasive as water and power and telephone,” Sheriff said.
In contrast, Religious Studies Prof. Paul Jones gave a relatively somber talk on different aspects of the Christian tradition and Western philosophy. Social restrictions imposed by Christianity could be lifted, he said, by a God who allows humans to make individual ethical choices.
“It doesn’t do any good to recycle pieties,” Jones said. “[We need] a theology that expands in a careful, critical way.”
Media Studies Prof. Bruce Williams also spoke, offering a recap of some of the most significant sociological findings from his class on HBO’s “The Wire”.
Theresa Carroll, a senior assistant dean in the Nursing School, gave a talk on the value of laughter and pursuing your passions, and Physics Prof. Lou Bloomfield closed the event by discussing the relative merits of self-determined futures as opposed to those dictated by one’s peers.
The Hullabahoos, a University all-male acappella group, performed three songs for an intermission.
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