It's an Enviromental Issue

Regarding Student concern over Representation
on the Governance Task Force (full post now
awaiting moderation.)

Dear Phillip,

Good of you to express your views, I think.
Especially as a graduating senior.

You know how it's been in our 8:00 American
Lit class?  Any one can provoke a swell, start a
conversation, get some action going.  Open Mic
it's called, and everyone in the class has access.

If I recall, you were the first one, first day,
to originate and authorize a notion.  It's
structured to factor-in both "choas" and
"anarchy"--an open slate, so to speak,
a leaderless agenda.

You can assess and evaluate how effectively
that worked.(And Gideon, too. He's had
experience with leader-less classroom)

We had shared governance in 6th grade,
each room with a President, a Vice President
in case the President was absent, a Secretary,
andTreasurer.  People ran for office. We voted
by putting out heads down on the desk, keeping
our eyes closed, and raising our hands.

Whatever the "governance structure" of the
institution, the fact is, the whole community has
total  access to voice opinion, idea, question,
criciticism, commentary  to all at any time
24/7/365 as you more or less have done here. 

This is amazing.

It sits side-by-side the "powers that be"
so to speak. an ongoing e-Hyde park that,
as far as I can tell, has yet to kick in and
reveal it's power..

Cultural lag, it's called: when the culture
and customs and tradition lag behind the
actual technological environment that we all
swim in.

It's an environmental issue, I think--
rather than (or at least parallel to)
the governance issue.

IT, I said.  Do I always have to be
spelling IT out?

With appreciation,
Sam