I’ll refrain from walking into the weeds with the personal attacks on me. There are so many problems and assumptions with your assessments of my views that it would take more ink than I can spare to correct them.

I’m not saying that I don’t see a value to the surrounding community, but that is at our dime and we have to ask ourselves about what those costs are. I suggested that we put all of talks online. I don’t favor a world of privilege, money, and knowledge concentrated in a few hands. I do favor an academic experience where we ration our college’s exposure to nutty people. Forgive me if that’s against your world view, but I think I’ll live.

As for aristocratic ranks, I reject the Marxist critique you have going on. What’s wrong with aspiring to wealth? It’s so 19th century, but I thank you for your compliment. And as for being treated as riff raff, you have to earn the opportunity to be treated as anything else.

You’re right,we do have a misunderstanding, but I don’t think its as much about the nature of a ‘higher, elite educaiton’ as it is about our worldviews. You want a world where knowledge, money, and power are concentrated in the hands of the privledged few, and I don’t.

Keep sitting on your high horse, maybe someday you will join the aristrocratic ranks you fight for so valiantly. Most likely they will give you the same treatment as you advocate CMC give ‘the riff-raff’.

ps I heard you’re still in KC this summer. Let me know if you ever want bbq! Seriously…

http://www.youtube.com/pitzercollege
http://www.youtube.com/claremontmckenna

Maybe you and I have a misunderstanding about what higher, elite education is all about. Remember, the Ath exists for the student body, not for your social views.

Thanks,
Charles

I’ve already spoken with Bonnie Snortum about changing this policy since freshman year. She’s given me the run around. Now if you want to help me (and anyone else) in changing the policy, I’d be more than happy. Also, I think CMC should have a YouTube channel, not do its own thing. I don’t think it’s worthwhile to hire on more people, especially at a time of recession.

It isn’t hard to set up our own “YouTube” or to set up a TED-like, Vimeo.com-like, or Youtube.com like site on CMC.edu. It might be easier to just put things on YouTube, which has tons of technicians updating the software and maintaining the servers, but I don’t think it should be too hard for our full-time, paid staff to set up something on our own server so we can own and control it. Or we can outsource the server space and bandwidth (AWS, for example) but still have it tied into our own website. The cheapest solution would be to put it on one of those sites, but I don’t think that would be as cool as doing it ourselves. CMCtube?