Jacob ([info]llamascout) wrote,
@ 2005-04-29 00:03:00
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Haha:

If you Google "waffles", the fifth hit is John Kerry's website. (google) (johnkerry)



About Midgley:

So, people wonder what I think about Midgley?

this

(aboutmidgley)


Off The Record About Midgley:

Went to the thing today, and listened to the folks talk. Some had good points, but I think too many times I heard "reason reason reason, jump to conclusion."

The Senior Class President talked about Midgley's impartial behavior towards the students mixed with his friendly facade. Graduate Student Mike talked, as well as the EE head of Ventures and Dr Williams, one of my favorite profs. They all gave their own opinions as well as read letters from people who did not show up due to job security.

Afterwards, audience members asked if Dr. Midgley was going to speak.

The heads, Milks and.. err... what's her name..., attempted to dissuade the audience to want this: "He's been shown to lie in the past, will you believe him now?"

Regardless, the audience wished him to speak. Some folk booed him as he stepped up to the mic.

So, Midgley has pretty hefty meta-cajones to even be at an anti-him rally, but apparenty not big enough.

He said:

[Generic stuff that is not at all defending my integrity]


I found it to be weak.

I gotta go, though. More later, maybe.



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[info]yardbird
2005-04-29 12:27 pm UTC (link)
Obviously I'm a quite a bit removed from news on campus, but my impression so far is that people are freaking out because the guy they hired after Sammy doesn't manage the school like Sammy. Everyone agrees that Sammy was great, but not everybody did when he first got here. Granted, there are probably legitimate concerns to be voiced, but there probably were with Sammy, too. What bad has this guy really done?

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[info]zowch
2005-04-29 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I was with you at first. It basically seemed like an, "Oh my God, this guy does things differently! What are we going to do?" sort of thing. The more I read, though, the more I'm disturbed. And having gotten first and second-hand information from people I trust (people like Claude and JP and Mark Ardis), I'm more concerned now.

AboutMidgley has a lot of information on it, but I don't think anybody's legitimately going to pretend that it's an unbiased source of information. But when I hear things from legitimate campus sources who are in no way reactionary (come on, Claude spent a long time *defending* the guy), it worries me.

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