That Rebel Girl—aka Lisa Alvarez—is a retiring soul. She’s shy and quiet, unassuming. She's not someone who seeks the limelight.
Still, manifest facts collect around her. The Reb is plainly a mover and shaker. Over the years, she’s occasionally held central roles in trustee campaigns, and she's had her fair share of leadership roles within her School. As a writing instructor, she’s made a big—sometimes, a huge—difference in the lives of many of her students, the continual evidence of which I experience first-hand as her friend and office mate.
She is, you know, the radical conscience of the fitfully pestiferous Dissent the Blog.
But the world is bigger than SOCCCD politics. The Reb produces "The Mark on the Wall," the best literary blog in Orange County. And, as many of you know, she has long been associated with the prestigious Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, where, along with novelist Louis B. Jones, she directs the Writers Workshops.
But there's much more. Together with National Public Radio’s Alan Cheuse, she edited the well-received Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction.
Her own work has appeared in many publications—and in several noteworthy anthologies, including Norton’s hot new Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, which has received terrific reviews (see), and seems destined to make a lasting splash in the literary/academic pond.
Owing to the latter, she was invited to the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Denver, Colorado. By all accounts, the Sudden Fiction Latino session was a blazing success.
Naturally, she's been invited to speak in various other forums. Not for the first time, she's in demand.
So, why am I blowing Rebel Girl’s horn?
Because, it appears, the college refuses to.
This has long been the case, I believe. Naturally, some who deserve to be celebrated at Irvine Valley College are celebrated, and that's great. I don't want to take anything away from them. Still, often, the college's rude radar fails to detect prominent corsairs on the academic horizon. The pattern is a curious one.
So, a few days ago, I contacted the relevant person and informed her of some of the above Rebellious factoids. She responded immediately and positively, eager to correct the oversight. Good!
Then Wednesday passed. Then Thursday. Then Friday.
Nothing.
The SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — "[The] blog he developed was something that made the district better." - Tim Jemal, SOCCCD BoT President, 7/24/23
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Inviting the Stupid People?
We are rapidly approaching the date of the big reveal of Saddleback College’s much ballyhooed Veterans Memorial. According to a Saddleback College press release (here), on the 29th (a Thursday),
Saddleback College Veterans Memorial dedication
Good grief. I do hope our sister college won’t have to put up with a gathering of the Stupid People on the 29th.
For me, that would really take the starch out of the whole thing.
Meanwhile, today, at the OC Blog (Red County), Tony Beall makes like a right-wing Paul Revere:
Greed & Power Politics – Teachers Union Members Authorize Strike in CUSD!
Education Alliance: that’s one of Don Wagner’s favorite organizations. He's on their board.
A few years ago, EA invited that gasbag Dennis Prager to yammer at 'em. I think EA wants to bring back the stocks and to bury pumpkin papers.
Saddleback College will welcome hundreds of veterans, community members, elected officials, students, faculty and staff to the college’s Veterans Memorial Dedication … to celebrate the completion of the most significant tribute to veterans at any community college campus in the nation. … The college’s dedication of the memorial is the exciting culmination of six years of work put forth by community members, students, faculty, staff and administrators.Yesterday, at Art Pedroza’s odd and noisy blog (“Orange Juice”), Larry Gilbert suggested to “patriots,” I think, that they attend the Saddleback event:
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In addition to honoring the service of our veterans and military personnel, the inaugural will include a Color Guard, military band and raising of the American flag at the memorial….
. . .
The concept for building the Saddleback College Veterans Memorial began on Veterans Day 2004, when a Saddleback College committee comprised of veterans and those interested in honoring the men and women who have served our country met to find a way to permanently pay homage to veterans. This lasting tribute to veterans will memorialize their service, their bravery, and their dedication to protecting our freedom….
Saddleback College Veterans Memorial dedication
Now that patriots have departed from the Mission Viejo TEA Party let me now suggest attending the following “free” event to honor our veterans and the freedom for which they have fought to preserve. On Thursday, April 29th Mission Viejo’s Saddleback College will honor veterans with a Memorial dedication….Patriots? Ex-Tea-partiers?
Good grief. I do hope our sister college won’t have to put up with a gathering of the Stupid People on the 29th.
For me, that would really take the starch out of the whole thing.
Meanwhile, today, at the OC Blog (Red County), Tony Beall makes like a right-wing Paul Revere:
Greed & Power Politics – Teachers Union Members Authorize Strike in CUSD!
The seven conservative republican [sic] trustees serving on the Capistrano Unified Board of Trustees are under attack by the powerful California Teachers Association – and they need the immediate support of all conservatives who are sick and tired of the abuses and undue influence exerted by this powerful union.I don’t know about that, but I’ve been following CUSD politics for some time now, and I can tell you that the CUSD board is even more clueless than our own. Board members don't seem to understand the Brown Act. Most or all of 'em are affiliated with Tustin’s ultra-right-wing Education Alliance, which got its start with a chunk of cash from Howard Ahmanson, Jr., a pal-o'-Fuentes who has no problem with the idea of executing gay people. Or so he says.
Education Alliance: that’s one of Don Wagner’s favorite organizations. He's on their board.
A few years ago, EA invited that gasbag Dennis Prager to yammer at 'em. I think EA wants to bring back the stocks and to bury pumpkin papers.
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