Professor quotes DUer in letter to editors

[Autonomy]

To The Pleiad editors:

I had a dilemma in deciding to boycott Barbara Bush’s speaking at Albion College. The dilemma came because I wanted to be a model for my students of how to engage respectfully with others whose opinion is different from mine. Normally, I would have attended this event to uphold this ideal. However, my sense then was that the policies of this Administration were so outrageous, the war in Iraq so unconscionable, the disconnect between the government and the people so vast that I simply could not physically bring myself to attend an event that felt like a subtle endorsement of those very policies.

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“Actions have consequences,” said William Rivers Pitt, a liberal essayist and author. “What you see on your television today is not some wild accident, but is a disaster that could have been averted had the priorities of this government been more in line with the needs of the people it pretends to serve. The city of New Orleans, home to so much of the culture that makes America unique and beautiful, is today drowning underneath an avalanche of polluted, diseased water. This, simply, did not have to happen.”

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Dianne Guenin-Lelle
Professor of French and Chair of
foreign languages

http://www.albion.edu/pleiad/Fall_2005/issue2/opinions/EI_001.asp

[IndyOp]

1. Nice !

Yeah Will!

...and thanks to Guenin-Lelle for telling those who may not know about alternative media about Will.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Seansky]

2. good one!

[Sunkiss BlueStar]

3. Will Pitt

:yourock: