“Most people keep their perspective at EMU.” commentary from Jo Mathis in the AA News yesterday. One interesting comment/passage from this piece:
Fortunately, most people are keeping their perspective. While overall enrollment is down 2 percent, freshman class enrollment is up 3 percent over the same time last year. EMU’s interim director of admissions, Kathy Orscheln, wonders how much more that figure would have been up had this whole thing not happened.
Mathis has some other interesting ideas at the end of this piece about how EMU ought to do all they can during the Taylor trial to help the Dickinson family out, perhaps by putting them up in the University House. It’d be the first time that place would be actually useful, IMO.
Does University House= President’s House?
If so, I think that would be a superb idea.
So, how will you make this a reality?
I’d ask Alum for ideas on implementation.
How would you go about it, Alum?
Alum, please contact the President’s office (7-2211) or Ted Coutilish’s office (7-2483) and offer your great suggestion.
University House includes both the living space of The President, and the so called “public space” for entertaining, and the full sized commercial kitchen in the basement (paid for with Jim Vick’s diversion of Student Affairs funds), but also a separate small apartment sized living space for distinguished University guests. It has its own entrance from the outside and is entirely private from the other spaces. To my knowledge, this has been rarely used.
University House also has enough land to build at least 4 decent sized homes on their own lots. That should be done, making this embarrassment into a community asset.
I think that EMU should build condos for retirees and have the Starter Mansion serve as a common dining room/clubhouse. There might be a *little* noise from the Rynearson Demolition Derby extravaganzas…
In reading Ms. Mathis’s piece, she left off one very important “Despite…” in her eighth paragraph: “Despite the panty-sniffing style of “reporting” practiced by Geoff Larcom.” Yeah, I know I used the phrase before here, but it’s so apropos. Geoffie came marching up to me at the BoR demanding to know if I was Joe Tiboni (Joe is part of the PT union and wrote a letter to the snooze). Geoffie knew what he wanted to write and was busy finding “evidence” to support his pre-conceived story