After being reminded that the V.I.P. meeting would be taking place today, administrators quickly enrolled in a modern dance class in Vera Lee Rinker Hall, with hopes of acquiring that special spin needed for the event.The meeting will be a panel discussion in which administrators will respond to the questions and concerns raised by students.
"You can never have enough spin," said an administrator as Dr. Globa swung her through the air by her ankles. "We're actually trying to take as many questions as possible, without actually giving any answers. It's a competition. Whoever can say the most amount of words without answering the question wins."
The event will take place on Rinker Green at 5:30 this Monday evening.
"I'm concentrating on tap," said an administrator. "That way if I'm asked a difficult question, I'll be able to tap dance right over it, without anyone noticing.
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So funny because it was so true... at this point they might as well make up a "standard book of responses" to student concerns, that way they wouldn't have to bother with feeding us the same tired old answers to our concerns.
Do you mean to tell me that the administrators don't care about the students' concerns and pander them when asked questions?
I think that is absurd. Of course they care about the students. If they didn't they wouldn't have imprisoned that evil monkey who was trying to corrupt our minds with the truth. The administrators care about the beliefs of the students so much that they lie to us on a daily basis and make policies that are ridiculous, baseless and borderline harassing.
Or maybe, just maybe, they only care about themselves, their jobs, and how the University looks to the outside world and rich donors who would like to have a building named after themselves to show the world how wonderful and important they are.
I think that deep down, they really do care about us. They want what they think is best for us, I really believe that.
But, as this article so wonderfully portrays, they have a hard time communicating that.
There is also a level of patronizing going on, and that may be the heart of the issue. It is difficult to respect the person who constantly seems like they are talking down to you.
Also, it's hard to trust people who give generalized pat answers to tough questions. Same thing happened to the Pres. Bush throughout his administration, which is a reason the press turned on him over the past eight years.
Too bad we don't have a press...
It's not only patronizing, it's also a matter of bad choices and yes, poor communication:
1) The Catholic mass debacle
2) Taking the Beacon editor-in-chief position away from students
3) Taking the Beacon off the Internet
4) Not having a plan for the Theatre department (check the 10 year building plan of the school--no theatre in sight)
5) Losing a record amount of professors (More than 50 percent of the faculty have been here three years or less)
6)Holding a concert and festivities in the Library
7) Closing the library to students to hold a party the next day (not to add insult to injury or anything)
8) Trying to bribe student government into changing the name of the Daniel E. Goodman Award
I hate to criticize so, but really guys, this has been a tough year for us.
Anyone read the new Beacon article about The Bacon? Man was it bad. I don't think that the author got the memo about The Beacon being turned completely into a PR Campaign.
Maybe it's just a metter of perspective. We ask the same questions every year and maybe we get the same answers every year because they're true. Maybe we just don't want to listen to them.
I get tired of hearing the "we don't have a donor" answer about the theater question, but in reality, it's the truth. And as much as I hate the parking answer that says "there's no good solution until Hillcrest," that's probably also the truth.
The administration seems to think that a parking garage with residence halls is a higher priority than a theater building. I would disagree with them, but that doesn't mean they are selfish and don't care about students. It just means we don't see eye to eye on priorities.
Stop vilianizing the administration and start listening to some of their answers (as much as they may be the same old thing). Go ahead and flame me for my opinion and call me a puppet of the administration. Call me blind and ignorant; I'm used to that response for giving a different perspective on the matter.
Now don't turn this into a lynch party now.
What better way to entertain students and keep them on campus on weekends than to have theatrical productions?
What will become of the theater department? How will PBA draw good potential theater students, if there is no theater?
The somehow managed to draw theatre students when it was in the basement below the library. And let's be honest guys do we really see the next Marlon Brando or Natalie Wood coming out of the PBA theatre department. People that talented aren't going to come to this school anyways for theatre they'll go to a school known for its success in the arts...
or they will just act and perform.
Let's be honest about the real reasons we're all here.
we are all here to get naked
Dear former anonymous;
Now, that's really good thinking.
Let's take that idea a little bit further;
Do you really see the next Donald Trump coming out of the PBA business department? People that talented aren't going to come to this school for business, they'll go to a school known for success in business...
Do you really see good nurses and pharmacists coming out of PBA nursing and pharmacy schools? People that talented aren't going to come to this school for pharmacy or nursing, they'll go to a school known for success in pharmacy or nusing...
What kind of defeatist-give-up attitude is that?
The point is, it's all where you put your money and priorities and what kind of educational experience you want-what kind of students we want to produce in the future. We seem to have well endowed business and pharmacy schools. Dollars have been designated to those schools, for upkeep and future expansion. Good for them. Obviously, somebody believes in those departments. We can someday have a great university with many great departments, if those who hold the keys to the bank will diversify some money( not all, some....even a little!) to the humanities and the arts (outside of the music department, that seems to be well funded. At least it has a nice building, recital hall and regular performances.)
Yes, it is true. We need more parking. We've always needed more parking. The idea of having dorms on top of parking is a good one, but what kind of students will occupy those dorms in the future? Only nurses, pharmicists and future MBA's? What about potential future english teachers, history teachers, drama teachers,and religion professors, pastors and youth pastors?
If we just want a business and pharm. school, let's get serious about it, dump all the other departments, transform the buildings and have a bus. and pharm. school and be done with it. If we want to have a university, then let's spread the money around a little bit more and fund those other departments.
An earlier comment said that the 10 year plan didn't even include a new theater building. Is that true?
If so, that is pretty sad.
Dear most recent anonymous,
I feel "former anonymous" was just pointing out a very clear truth: our theatre department isn't exactly the cream of the crop. We aren't bad...we just aren't known for our theater department or anything. Maybe because we don't have a building. I don't know...could be it. However, we can't just "take it a step further" because our pharmacy program is pretty great and so is nursing. Business is not what we're known for but also has a firm foundation. Some other departments (like Theater)are less fantastic but still departments in their own right.
"The Diviners" was one of the best theater performances I've ever seen. Anywhere.
"Medea" was excellent.
I'm guessing the one-acts will be insightful and entertaining.
See you there.
Wow..Bacon! Interesting article, funny, Chris Moody in Towers 401.
Hamlet a few years ago was the best I've ever seen.
West Side Story was pretty good.
Medea was fantastic. I think for what we have, we've got an excellent theater department. It's amazing that it still exists, being what it has gone through over the last 2-3 years.
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