[Alumni-chat] "Student Trustees" at Antioch?

[Gerry Bello]

you know....

I have to chime in here....

I support student trustees.  I have since I was 20.  Here is why:

On my first co-op I was in the Bay Area.  I learned alot.

I learned that the University of California is the sixth largest nuclear weapons producing entity in the world.  They make more Bombs than Pakistan and India combined.  They have a student on their board of Regents.

The majority of UC regents at the time were appointed by govener Regean.  So Yazz (cud or allen or whatever the fuck your name is) are you saying we trust our younger adults less than Regean his with nuclear fucking weapons?

The second thing I learned that is germaine to this discussion:

On my first co-op, I was called on a couple of times to bodyguard for "important" people in the movement who had be targeted for serious shit, including being killed.  

I was a month or two past my 20th birthday and people who barely knew me were willing to trust me with their own and their friends lives?

Why?  Not because I'm tough (although I was and am), and not certainly not because I'm big (because I wasnt and am not) but because I was completely capable of self-sacrifice.  And making a descision that might be good for the community but might not be in my own narrow self-interest. 

Are you now saying that an Antioch student who can be trusted with people's lives couldnt be trusted to oversee the future of their own community and education?

If thats the case than a hearty fuck you is warranted. 

After all we trust students to design their own classes and their own majors and their own co-ops...

Students are young its true.  They are going to be alive for a while (ideally)... they have more future to plan for than us.  Why not trust them with the future of their community and education.

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I remember back a few months ago some jackass was in here saying we couldnt trust cafe workers with being trustees...  

When I was back on campus the same people were working in the cafe as when I was there.  It would seem they have an interest in the school being healthy.

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Trustees come and go.  Administrators come and go.  Faculty, staff, students, Alumni...

We're in for life.

At least 1/3rd of trustees should be faculty staff and students.


---G '97


"We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it leaves the stage of history but we are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute." 
----Durruti

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