Letters: An offer you cannot refuse

12 November 2007

I'll make a deal with Melissa Steyn ("Not the Not the Monday Paper" 29 October - 11 November 2007): If UCT acquires a decades-long obsessive preoccupation with opposing 'transformation', Not the Monday Paper will gladly devote three issues to lampooning that.

David Benatar Philosophy Department

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Monday Monthly

Volume 26 Edition 17

12 Nov 2007

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Front page

Namaqualand: From dumps to daisies

News

Chemical romance for Bourne

Quartet nets super teacher awards

Letters: An offer you cannot refuse

EBE sets up ploughing back fund

Khan: simply the best

GSB milestones

Adam delivers alumni lecture

Lass gets top fellowship

Workshop on climate change mitigation

Innovative systems showcased

In memory - Dr Jack Klopper

White economic privilege perpetuated

Sport

Up and away for outreach

Young blood nets trophy

Close to the wind

Sailor king of the sports world

Arts

On their way to the finals

Marlene Dumas exhibition

Memory of slavery resurrected through powerful work of fiction

Research and innovation

Leg up for province's poorest schools

Alchemy old and new

Research group targets environmental policy

UCT scholar among winners

Governance

Fraud mitigation calls for vigilance

Up the rungs

UCT statement on charges pending against deputy registrar

Front page extra

We want your grad stories, now!

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