[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[Liza (eadler2001 at yahoo.com)]

>Earlier posts on this subject have described co-ops as just being thrown into a new city to find their way alone.  I don't recollect that -- I seem to recall meetings of co-ops destined for the same city as a way to form contacts and support groups.  I seem to recall a lot of support prior to leaving campus.
I only had one co-op experience in which I learned before leaving campus about an apartment that was available to be passed along, which I shared with one of the other students who worked at the same job. That was also the only time I met another student destined for the same city prior to leaving campus. 

>Actually, I agree with you quite strongly, and thought I had expressed a similar view at some point, although it may have been in a private communication with someone.  I believe that much of the restoration of the College should be an "organic" process, not an exercise in Robert-Moses-style urban renewal ("let's bulldoze those nineteenth century monstrosities and build another Davis!").  I think such a process could be cheaper and better and educational to boot.
I think you and I are in very close agreement on this issue. My "socially disruptive" and your "invigorating" experiences seem to have led us to much the same place.  I saw your earlier post and was therefore very surprised that you seemed to be disagreeing with much the same notion expressed slightly differently. I think our apparent disagreement probably has more to do with the medium of communication than anything else. (It was Rowan, incidentally, who brought the term "idiotic" into the conversation--by saying "not an idiotic idea"--I didn't call them idiotic.)

Cheers.