OOo MYY GOGGLE (OMG)

"Be the Change that you wish to see in the world,"
says Mahatma

"Some ego structures stand in the way of creative
plenitude and need to be suspended or punctured
[crucified] if the work is to proceed.  The artist who
is not always guarding his words has more materials
available  than  the one who must feed a troop of
custom officials. "  (Lewis Hyde)

Dear Colleagues Across the Curriculum.

How Democracy Needs the Humanities and how  Ali
 would  appreciate response to an article encouraging
faculty to help generate program-excellence through
better assessment protocols (and also avoid  Big Govt
intrusion)--these  are decent "applied" local problems
and could call forth the Critical Thinking Expertise of
the scientists,  and anthropologists, and sociologists,
and historians and literary critics, and philosophers and
theologians we have all around. Academics R Us.

Repent. Turning back efficient attention from the
direct objects to the subject source.  US,  always.

Chatter, is what my colleague John Brock might call it--
FacultyL forumizing and no free lunch needed, beyond
hall and stairwell converse. Disparagingly,  I know - and
who can blame him?  It's that attitude  that signals our
hesitancy to mess around cerebrally in public, play and
be played:   edifying--building a shared sense of
collaborative genius (which Keith Sawer claims needs
an environment that encourages failure--slip sliding away.)

Unprofessional.   We're not used to it. It hasn't become
Chronicles of Higher Education Cool yet: A faculty that
brays together.    We remain an untapped resource.

A matter of time, however. No doubt.  Probably after
I'm gone, damnit.   Someone remember I told you so.

(And my classes too: frontiers yet unknown.  Where's a
decent BP cerebral/affective disaster  when we need  it?
OMG ... oh my Google!  Ah, the humanities. )

xxxooo, Sam