The Right Thing to Do

Diversity by Design Guide to Fostering Diversity in the Civil Engineering Workforce 

With the sea change in demographics now upon us - atong with a strong business case for why diversity is important - it s time to re-examine aspects of the traditional white male culture in the civil engineering profession. To affect positive change, it s important to learn how people of color, females, and white males can all work together to achieve personal and professional 

ASCE Policy Statement 417 Achieving Diversity and Eqnity 

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She takes my statement at face value. Of course. Still, it shouldn t be hard to sell. And then, like a satellite delay, what I haven t said reaches her, and she answers it with another hug of my shoulders. I m so sorry. But I m sure it s the right thing to do. You must say if I can help. ... 

The first thing to look out for is the relaxation time (T ) of the protons that you are going to measure. In order to get an accurate integral, the protons must return to their rest state each time before you pulse them. The recommendation for a 90° pulse is to wait for 3-5 x T. Obviously this assumes that you know the Ti of all of your protons. It is possible to measure them (and this is indeed the right thing to do) but you need to decide how accurate you need the result to be. If you want a fairly accurate result, it is sufficient to guesstimate your T values just by looking at the chemical structure. Small molecules... 

Her gentle mannerism, her voice. When I started seeing her she would call me at home to see how I was doing. And whenever I called her—no matter where she was—I got a phone call back within ten minutes, I thought she really cared about me and wanted to see me get better. And she made me feel that taking the medications [she prescribed] was the right thing to do. 

The incident could of course be Interpreted as a case of scapegoating. But it nevertheless makes the point that opposing the intentions of superiors can be more than game playing . It can be the right thing to do. 

Tatyana nodded again. As the Colonel settled back, she moved closer and offered her hand. It seemed the right thing to do. 

Nancy Hopkins I asked the president why he did it, and he gave a really simple answer. He said, It was the right thing to do, so we did it. He said, We didn t ask the lawyers. All the other university presidents asked, How did you do it Didn t your lawyers tell you not to do it That is a sad comment on the whole state of the legal profession, that the people who are supposed to be helping us are preventing this problem from being solved. This is really sad. 

Molecular structure makes no appearance in a quantum treatment of molecules starting from first principles. We are thus dealing with a qualitative change in the theory which is expressed in the mathematics by a discontinuous approximation, and one is bound to question whether invoking the structure hypothesis is always the right thing to do. (Woolley, 1978, p. 1076)... 

It is true that Condorcet s view is an ancient one - clearly defended, for instance, throughout Plato s Dialogues. He was what is these days called a moral realist , who assumed that there are objective moral truths and he further believed that, as people become more enlightened, the probability will increase that what most think is the right thing to do will indeed be the right thing to do (an assumption basic for his famed jury theorem ). Thus, he asks in the Esquisse ... 

Balance the Business Case with the Right Thing to Do... 

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