Post by WanderingAggie on Oct 28, 2015 8:54:49 GMT -7
When I was 18, a buddy & I moved from LC to the Olympia area for an adventure - Greeners were too stoned to do anything except get off the couch to find more weed!
If you aren't happy with the status quo, do something to change it. If you aren't willing to put yourself on the line to make things happen, shut up.
About 15% of Evergreen students fit that stereotype. The plaque on the library, named for Republican politician Dan Evans actually says "Southwest Washington State College" and most who attend -- including hundreds of active-duty military from JBLM -- are there because it's the regional state u in the area.
The worst part of the institution is the hidebound politics of its more elderly faculty, who harken back to the "founders" of 1967 the way the dumbass tea partiers harken back to the slave-holding, non-religious Virginians as paragons of what should always happen. Anti-Semitism abounds along with a few other mandatory political beliefs.
During the 10 years, I was the AD at Evergreen, our men's basketball team went to the NAIA National tournament three times and beat two Division I teams, soccer went to nationals once. 17 athletes were named NAIA All-America. That all stopped when I left and they aren't much good at anything anymore.
Believe it or not, what I found as a Kiwanis member, a Thurston County Chamber of Commerce member and a prominent YMCA volunteer was that the average citizen didn't dislike E State because of the hippies but because the campus culture was standoffish. People in the community of local movers and shakers said I was more the face of the college than the president was and I was hardly trying to be, just doing what an AD would do
Post by WanderingAggie on Oct 29, 2015 14:29:17 GMT -7
I do miss going out to Westport & buying fresh crabs right off of the boat - and picking chanterelles.
Sounds like you experienced a President who didn't see the benefit of a town/gown relationship - something that NMSU has experienced recently too. Hopefully the Carruthers presidency, repairing relationships will continue when he retires.
If you aren't happy with the status quo, do something to change it. If you aren't willing to put yourself on the line to make things happen, shut up.
