1. “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” Ben Franklin
PAF 101 Module 2, Lecture 1
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
Ben Franklin

2. Class Agenda Announcements Community Service
Selecting a topic –Ex. 2.6
Quick Intro. to Ch. 3
Exercise 3.1
Fighting Procrastination
Assignment for Next Class

4. Lunch with Coplin Monday and Wednesday from 11 to 11:30
me to determine which day and meet me at 11 in 102 Maxwell
We can talk about anything
We pay for our own lunches

5. Competition Points Winners Losers Group # Total 17 6 1 5 3 12 4 7 9 1311 8 10 14 15 16 18 19 2
Winners
Losers
As of 09/15/2017

6. Policies and Requirements PAF 101 Community Service Director
Sarah Hamilton

7. Community Service 5 hour requirement
Prospective to TA due 10/11
Final Community Service Form due 12/4
More info on the PAF 101 Website:

8. Westcott Street Cultural Fair
Volunteers needed!
Westcott Street Cultural Fair
Sunday, September 17
Westcott Street- Business District Area
Sign up at: 

9. Volunteer Work Opportunity
8-10 students
Saturday, 9/30, 12 pm at Damia’s house
Prepare lunch bags
Food provided by Damia
You can also bring fruit and other sealed food
Take the bus downtown
Distribute bags to the homeless for hours
Questions? Damia at

10. Introduction to Module Two
Exercises for Chapters 2-4
Due 10/6
One of Seven Topic Areas from Module 1 
Take notes-remember that exercise 1.4 is good for the topic for Module 2. 
Not Too Specific

11. Introduction to Module Two
Chapter 2: Use the library (guest lecture on Monday)
Chapter 3: Find players to interview
Chapter 4: Design a survey on a societal problem or policy in a specified geographic area

12. Getting specific is hard to do…
Exercise 2.6 requires you to select a societal problem WITHIN YOUR TOPIC
Exercise 3.1 requires you to choose a local geographic area: Syracuse, Onondaga County, or your home town or county

13. For Exercise 2.6: A Societal Problem is Not A Policy You Don’t Like
Gun Control
Gun Related Crimes

14. DON’T BE A LOSER NEVER define a problem as some policy you don’t like
Always start with some condition in society that needs to be ameliorated as the problem.
Starting with the problem rather than the solution is the essence of ???

15. Problem Selection Ex. 2.6
Choose a specific societal problem within the one of the following topics:
Crime
Education
Environment
Health
Housing
Jobs and Economic Development
Poverty

16. Focus on Specific Problems for 2.6
A problem is an undesirable societal condition that is at an unacceptable level
Either too low (such as graduation rates) or too high (such as unemployment rates)
Be sure to indicate geographic location

17. Crime
Too many arrests for homicides, drug sales, theft in the City of Syracuse
DWI/DUI arrest rate is too high
Too many incidents of police brutality

18. Environment Recycling levels are too low Air Pollution is too high
Carbon footprint is too big

19. Education High school graduation rates are too low
Too many students fail state- mandated tests
Students are late too frequently

20. Health Too many adolescent pregnancies STD rates are too high
The nursing shortage is too great
Too many people don’t have access to health care
$30 a month of children in NYS who make as much as $60,000 a year is a fact and raises questions about health care coverage

21. Housing Too many vacant lots Not enough low income housing
Too many mortgage defaults in the City of Syracuse

22. Jobs/Economic Development
Loss of jobs is too high
Not enough workers with the necessary skills
Too many business bankruptcies

23. Poverty Too many food pantries run out of food
Too many people live under the poverty line
Too much welfare fraud

24. Focusing on a Societal Problem
Very difficult because “to generalize is to be an idiot.” -Wm. Blake, 18th century poet
What’s wrong about this quote?
Which leads to the two most important quotes of the course…

25. “Life is an aggregation problem.”
Quote #1
“Life is an aggregation problem.”

26. Dealing with “Life is an Aggregation Problem”
Canada Goose– a beautiful bird versus a flying crap machine
Notes Who can give me an example?
Compare Liberal Arts from the brochures and the words of the Dean to your actual experiences.
Public Policy Analysts must talk to stakeholders, players, and experts.

27. When you can take a 3 page paper and:
Reduce it to 1 page
Reduce that to 3 paragraphs
Reduce that to 1 paragraph
Reduce that to 1 sentence, or in the case of POTUS, a tweet
You will understand that life is an aggregation problem.

28. Be Both Kinds of a Person
Correctly decide when to be:
A Tree Person
A Forest Person

29. Quote #2 Second Most Important Quote
“Everything is B.S.”
This is reality; learn to deal with it.
Hint: Ask yourself why do cows defecate and what are the consequences?

30. Example: The Magna Carta
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who've lived with a degree of liberty and under a rule of law for 800 years. It's a load of tripe, of course. But it's a very useful myth."
NICHOLAS VINCENT, a professor at the University of East Anglia and author of a book on the document.

31. Create Respect for BS
BS is as essential to the human condition as air is to human life
Respect for BS restores faith to its proper place

32. BS is the fertilizer of life
Good
It serves as play
It drives business-a.k.a. known as advertising
It drives do-gooders
It is coin of the politicians realm
One person’s truth is another person’s BS
Substitutes for warfare except when it causes warfare
Bad –too much:
Pollutes the political atmosphere
Interrupts TA programs.
Destroys the news media
Makes brown spots in lawns and stinks

33. Antidote to BS Excesses
Avoid groupthink
Protect yourself against cognitive dissonance
Use analysis rather than emotion
Be ????
??? –pragmatic

34. How to Write an Effective E-mail
Proofread and proofread again
No fancy typefaces or background crap
Keep subject short and to the point
Do not open with “Hey”
If you do not get a response within two days, again; within a week, call
As soon as you get a response, send a thank you or reply.
When responding, keep the thread
Advice

35. Procrastination -Everyone stands to end procrastination
-lead group in declaration “My name is ________ and I am a procrastinator.”

36. What are the causes of procrastination ?
Fear of failure
Fear of success
Priorities are a bitch
Thinks it is more efficient
and …

37. Peer Pressure is EVIL
There is a solution to your problem

38. The Ultimate Vaccine
If your friends told you to stick your head in a bucket of $#!+, would you?

39. Travis Mason
Chief of Staff, Google[x] Engineering & works on their Public Policy and Government Affairs team
University of Michigan MPA, Class of ‘07 through PPIA
Syracuse University, Class of 2006, took many policy studies courses
Harry S. Truman Scholar
Former President of the Student Association
Founder of Orange Seeds

40. For Next Class Read Chapter 2 for next class
Bring a copy of Module 2 to follow along with the librarian lecture
New seats