Friday, December 4, 2009

SOCCCD Board of Trustees: special resolution retreatery



I just perused the agenda for the SOCCCD Board of Trustee's December (7) meeting. (Click here; a large pdf file.)

Item 6.1 is interesting:

Invocations at District and College Events
Adopt Resolution 09-23 regarding District policy on invocations at District and College events.

Point 1 of the resolution is just what one would expect from this conservative board. But points 2 and 3 reveal--oh, intense regret and... --um, I'll let you characterize it.



As I have noted previously, at the board meeting immediately following the notorious Fall Chancellor's "opening session"--in which a patriotic video declared that "Jesus Christ" offered to save our souls--the board heard from faculty who mightily objected to the video "Christ" sentiment and Trustee Williams' curious "going to hell" remark and invocation. They also requested an apology.

At that time, in response, trustees and the chancellor mentioned no "mistake" and made no apologies. Indeed, the Chancellor remarked that he was "not offended." Board President Wagner praised the Chancellor's opening session as a "job well done."

That was it. (This was nearly two weeks after the session.)

It is important to understand that the recently filed lawsuit ("Westphal v. Wagner") presents a pattern of behavior over a long period of time. The events of the Fall opening session are only some among many that constitute a rich and worrisome practice, including troubling and defiant episodes.

COMMENTS:

Hell No!
Anonymous said...
wow - you mean John Williams won't be able to tell me that I'm going to burn in hell anymore?
8:21 AM, December 04, 2009

Ixnay on the Apcray
Anonymous said...
Does this cover Raghu telling people that God put him in the Chancellor's office and that he is doing God's bidding at the colleges? 
Just wondering.
8:28 AM

Don Juan v. Don Wag
Anonymous said...
Ouch.

(Vote for Johnny Depp people - defeat Don Wagner!)
9:13 AM

Gratuitous Truth-spewage
Anonymous said...
Pot stirrer! Do you really want people to know what's going on? Why? To what end?
9:18 AM

Gimme separation or give me, um, a booboo
Anonymous said...
"Power concedes nothing without demand." - Frederick Douglass.

Thanks for demanding. Keep it up.
9:34 AM

Sure you can!
Anonymous said...
You can't make this stuff up!
9:51 AM

Wha?
Anonymous said...
Can anyone interpret that incomprehensible blather in paragraph 1?
11:10 AM

omg, CYA, CYA!
Anonymous said...
So basically they went to their (and God's) lawyer, and he said, "YOU IDIOTS! GO BACK AND COVER YOUR ASSES! TELL THEM IT WAS A MISTAKE! TELL THEM ANYTHING! HOW DUMB ARE YOU ANYWAY?"
12:24 PM

For the deaf, too
Anonymous said...
Let's see—you're a college for the blind, right? --Johnny Depp
12:39 PM

We won't be pushed around (beyond this point back here. Hello?)
Anonymous said...
Wow. A partial retreat. Their lawyer must've given 'em some bad news: "Good Lord, you people are morons."
1:10 PM

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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