Posted on 06/02/2011 7:34:45 AM PDT by EBH
Yes, but he didn’t go to Auburn like I did. He can’t help it.
Only going by what I read in the article, it would appear that he enjoys stirring up controversy and has done so on multiple previous occasions. Whether the "trouble" is simply a disagreement with the school administration or a malicious intent to disrupt meetings between the administration and other students (or some middle ground between those two positions) would require more information that is available, making my inferences from the data presented in the article no less and no more valid than yours. As for why the school is "so unwilling to engage in any type of dialog" an equally valid question might be why this young man is so determined to disrupt the dialog that the school is attempting to engage. After all, the school had already scheduled a meeting with the affected students for a dialog on the issues and this student posted his little challenge advocating a confrontational approach and accusing the school of pushing back against solutions. Who is really the obstacle to dialog here?
I understand the concept of distance learning (in fact I have taught online university courses with students literally located all over the world while taking my course) so I understand that off-campus students are part of the student body. While the off-campus students are equally a part of the campus community as the resident students, their opinions would not necessarily be equally informed, nor would they hold equal status as stakeholders and participants in a discussion regarding resolution of issues related to on-campus damages from a tornado.
Ultimately then the decision by the school has nothing to do with whatever message any of the parties advocated; it is merely to punish him.
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