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John Martin <martin@fafnir.astr.cwru.edu> wrote:
: conspiracy."  What exactly is this immovable force Dan?  I'd like to
: know who this foe you fear so much is that you won't name them.

	Now you're making me out to sound like Dave Zinkin.. :)
	I don't think there's a conspiracy of people going out of there
way to make life bad.  Fearless Leader isn't in the back room sending
out Boris and Natasha to poison the food, unstock the vending machine,
and change the blueprints for the Lewis building.
	Rather there is an institutional mindset that the students are 
fundamentally unimportant except as revenue sources.  This mindset
permeates most levels of the adminstrative side of the school.
	Anyone who has ever tried to reserve a room for an event or
park their car on campus, to cite just two examples, knows what I mean.
	

:   Frankly Dan I don't understand how anyone could think that my
: "reputation" gets me anywhere. 

	You're the one who brought it up, dude.


:   Student involvement at CWRU has improved.  And I think the people
: that have contributed to that deserve some thanks.  But I there are
: a lot of people out there still that are obviously knowledgeable and
: keep up with things because they know enough to see the problems, but
: then they don't take that extra risk by taking the next step.  And I
: was mad and taunted them but what I really should say is that it
: isn't as big a risk as you think it is to take that step from just
: complaining to doing something about it.  

	You CAN'T do anything about it.  But feel free to try.


: got Spring Fest.  Dan, Spring Fest hasn't solved world hunger or tuition
: hikes but I think it makes a really positive contribution that is pretty
: far reaching.

	Far reaching how?  Is anyone going to look back at their
4/5/6/more years at CWRU and think, "Gosh, I spent a truckload of money
going to a school with inadequate facilities, lousy food, and a dismal social
life, which I didn't even want to go to to begin with and now I have 
a degree from a school no one's heard of, but at least there was a 
nifty party in front of the library, so that made it all worthwhile."


-- 
Daniel Alt    Department of Music - Case Western Reserve University

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world
   is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." - Edward Elgar