Self-study
Nick: Support The Pincus family and their construction company have supported our university financially for decades. ███ ██████████ ██████ ███ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ███████████ █████ ██ █████ ██ ████████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ███ ███████████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Nick claims that the university should not grant a contract to the competitor of the Pincus family. This is because the Pincuses are long-time supporters of the university, which supports the sub-conclusion that awarding the contract to their competitor would be disloyal to one of the university’s friends. Nick is also assuming that the university should not be disloyal to its friends.
Speaker 2 Summary
Pedro states that the contract should go to whichever company makes the best bid. Why not consider the Pincuses’ donation history? Because for a donation to be charitable, it can’t come with special privileges—so, the past donations do not warrant special consideration.
Objective
We need to find a disagreement between Nick and Pedro. Their disagreement is about whether the university should consider the Pincus family’s past support when awarding contracts.
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a
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Nick agrees with this, but Pedro doesn’t necessarily disagree. Pedro clearly thinks that loyalty shouldn’t be a consideration in this particular decision, but he may still think it should be considered in other business decisions.
b
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Neither speaker makes this claim. Neither Nick nor Pedro brings up the Pincus family’s intentions when making donations, so we can’t know if they agree or disagree.
c
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Nick agrees with this, but Pedro disagrees, so this is their disagreement. Nick argues that accepting donations means the university is obligated to be loyal to the donors. Pedro states that donations do not carry any special privileges.
d
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Neither Nick or Pedro states an opinion about this. The speakers are only talking about one particular long-time donor; they never make a comparison with more recent donors.
e
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Neither speaker actually expresses a position on this point. First, Nick doesn’t talk about competition at all. Second, Pedro talks about competition but doesn’t make a claim about which bid was most competitive or whether the university chose right.