[Alumni-chat] Recent Visit to YS

[Jonny]

On 10/9/07, jdwood (jdwood5000 at yahoo.com)
<alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org> wrote:
> Thanks for this post Lesley, poignant and painful as it is.
>
> You are so very correct in assuming that Antioch UNIVERSITY will USE the new
> Nobel winner as their poster boy, though they absolutely do NOT deserve him
> as they had NOTHING to do with his victory.

I'd not be so quick to throw in the towel on this one. A primary
measure of our chances of success in this regard are our willingness
to be agile, imaginative and proactive in producing and distributing
our own set of media response. eg. Robots indexing the web do not care
which domain certain content is found on, they simply report results
to the engines, and public opinion responds to the information
presented to it first.
In short, we have a choice between allowing the univerisity to decide
where, when, how and by whom it would like to be represented; or we
have the option of representing ourselves - I'm quite sure I'm working
furiously towards the latter and know many others are as well, because
here the legal arm of the university has a limited range of motion:
this is a unique vulnerability in that they do hold most of the other
cards, and own the card company, and the patent on cards, etc. (i.e.
they can't quite yet steamroll right over freedom of the press and
expression, which is generally a bad PR move  - but before the crisis
is over they will wish they could, if they don't now - if I have
anything to do with it)
Both the alumni and the student body are working towards this in a
focused, organized manner - and are quickly beginning to align thier
messages, orienting to a voice that speaks volumes and does do justice
to the continuity in narrative reaching back to the founding of the
college and extending into the present. History tells us such efforts
do constitute an appropriate and a potent set of responses, even in
the face of overwhelming odds - so let's not be so hasty to assume
ourselves powerless here. It may be one of only a few areas in which
we will hold the upper hand, whether we've realized it yet or not -
but again, history tells us this would prove sufficient in propelling
us over this hump and would provide momentum going forward after that
too.



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