[Alumni-chat] Dr. Alan Guskin! Hero or villain? Definitelyvillain!

[alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com)]

>So he  creates the chancellor position and then makes Crowfoot president. so
>we can  kick him around.  And kick we did because they hired a guy who would
>try to listen and deal, but had no power to do so and finally sort of
>imploded and was last seen wandering on the beach in northern michigan
>growing his beard and mumbling to himself. Because between the Guskin and
>BoT above and the toxic posse below... you get flattened baby.
>
>Well, I don't think the object of being an Antioch College student is  to
>implode someone else's mind.  Did making Crowfoot a mental case help  build
>Antioch?
Please give me a freaking break. This painting of grown people with ALL OF THE POWER in the relationship -- the College presidents -- as victims of "the toxic posse" (a backhanded reference to "Horace's Posse" one of the brands the Revival movement has adopted, very clever slander there, Sally!) is tiresome, intellectually lazy and silly.

>I think not.  But I suppose in the era of Gingrich,  Abramoff and Tom
>DeLay people might think this is the way business gets  done.  Sad.
A bunch of liberal oollege kids are compared to the Republican powers that be of the 1990s? Whatever you're smoking, I'll take $10 worth. Because it seems to make your imaginary monsters so much more SCARY! 

>I keep posting that up into the mid 1960's, decisions by  AdCil were all made by consensus
>in the fashion of a Quaker Meeting for  Business.  The point of that is never
>to have winners or losers.  You  always want to move people to a built
>consensus position, so that everyone  accepts the consensus, knowing full well that
>another issue will come up  requiring yet another decision, and you want to
>avoid passions moving as  factions from one issue to another.
You don't know much about consensus because one of the things that makes it work is the ability by any one person to block consensus. In your fantasies, AdCil operated under consensus and any one member could block the college budget or deny tenure by blocking. Such a load of revisionist crap you're unloading today!

>Flattening folk
>was never part of that  process.
Never's a big word. The Antioch College president never flattened anyone in AdCil in the halcyon 1950s? Sounds like balogna to me.

Alan Benard <--- My real name.