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Re: Of Catamounts and Crack Babies



On Wed, 17 Nov 1993, Irwin A. Mallin wrote:

> OK, quick: what are the three things Syracuse and UVM have in common? 
> That's right, Lisa, Mark and the fact that we haven't won a football game
> in ages.
> 
> As the only current SU coach who gets that bug-eyed touristy look when I
> walk through Burlington, I treasure our new arrivals from UVM.  Learning
> from them and kinda sorta integrating the "UVM way" into the "SU way" has
> been beneficial in many respects.  There are some things that I disagree
> with, but we're all talking and negotiating.  Discourse is a good
> thing.  I know that's true because our communal aff case says so.
> (I am getting an evil stare as I write this from someone I respect and fear
> very much, so I hope this will help draw this string to a close.)
>  
> I want to take a couple seconds to respond to Jon Snyders plea that those
> folks who (forgive the paraphrase here but the cheesehead who runs our
> computer lab took out the printer that's connected to the only one that
> has a modem --> probably because the UVM people told him it was a waste of
> paper) "have been sitting around like crack babies not writing anything
> for fear they will be trashed."  Frankly, the reason that most of my
> communication here  has been to individuals and not to the whole list is
> because I'm the one doing the trashing.  I value the freedom of expressing
> my point of view with as few constraints as possible.  Because my sense of
> humor has a little bit of a mean edge to it, that sometimes means ragging
> on people by name.  Sometimes it means explaining to people that the
> stupid decision I made in your break round really was because of what I
> saw on my flow and not because I don't like you.  These are things that I
> am simply not comfortable doing while the whole list is watching.  This
> e-mail thing is a wonderful tool that we can use to communicate on either
> an interpersonal or group level as the situation demands.  
> 
> I know this is two strings in one message and I hope Jamie will forgive me.  
>    
>    Peace, Love, and please don't strike me.  See you in Binghamton.  Irwin.
>  
  
  I can understand where you're coming from, but I still feel it is really
necessary to participate for like we say in one of our offcases, "any info
whether correct or not is good for we learn from both thus there is no net
decrease in understanding..." I for one welcome any criticism you or
anyonbe might have... I love the abuse for it is in the abuse that I learn
to live... 
  As a call out to everbody, life is not a spectator sport, don't lets
your voice be swallowed by the mass opinion -no matter how stupid what you
think is, it IS VALID and DESERVES attention. And when you put out a
stupid idea and someone corrects it, so be it better for the both of you
AND the whole group. This is the end of my schpiel...take for a grain of
sand or see the logic and act!
-Jonathan (DTM) Snyder
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