[Alumni-chat] Reply To Mr. Casselli

[Michael Casselli (dodioflo at mindspring.com)]

>Sept. 25, 07
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>Hi from Yazz (David Roger) Allen '66 (YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com)
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>Matt Baya's post today (Sept. 25, 07) about me stinks and I want to say why.
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>I was reminded of posts Bob Devine used to make on the chatline before it was discontinued for several years, then brought back to life earlier this year.
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>Alumni who posted messages of dissent and discontent about Antioch administrators got tarred in some instances as "being a person who for years has been a trouble maker, and whose posts are known to have had a bad reputation." (I paraphrase Bob, here).
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>This is just defamation pure and simple worthy of HUAC when anyone interested in old age pensions and decent work place conditions was branded a "fellow traveller" of the "Communitist Russians."
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>Bob didn't have good replies to the often intelligent comments dissenters made, so he went for the throat by talking about the person's "know reputation in past years...a guy who always....(fill in the blanks here)."
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>My contributions to this chatline have been intelligent, worthy, and informed, and the sort of dismissal Matt Baya posted about me is unfair and wrong.  I hold a Master's Degree in Library Science and was elected to the Honor Society in that field.  I'm careful about what I say and post, and make a point of having back up proof when it's needed and required.
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>Having Matt Baya jump me the way he did on this chatline bothered me because he's a big player in curent day Antioch College alumni affairs...the guy who set up the WWW.Antiochians.Org site, cooperated it with the chatline, etc., etc.  What thoughtless writing from a man so visible in the Antioch Alumni organization leadership.
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>And what proof positive that I'm right about many people part of that leadership not being worthy of the confidence of the 14,000 plus living Antioch College alumni they claim to lead, yet are so arrogant in treating and dismissing so thoughtlessly.
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>My words about Jeff Wood failing to identify himself clearly in his chatlin posts were intelligent, yet characteristically dismissed by Mr. Baya.
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>The sloppy way Mr. Wood made his posts is cause for confusion.   How about posts which make clear the date and author of the post all part of the post....like the "friendly letter" form we all learned in Grade 5 and Grade 7 again? You know....Date, Salutation, Greeting,  Body, Close.
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>I include my personal email address so anyone can contact me away from the chatline, which due to the thoughtless manner of many part of the chatline, is needed, sadly.  People don't want to be attacked wrongly and mindlessly, and I can see why.
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>Matt, your post about me stunk, and I say so here for all to read.  This isn't something for an "off post" message.
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>I think its important to stand up to bullies (Matt) and call them what they are.  "Taking the high road" doesn't mean speaking out straight and quickly isn't warranted sometimes, which it clearly is here.
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>Yazz Allen
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