Hamilton College Alumni for Governance Reform

When did the propaganda machine ever get it right.

They could have at least plagiarized the AHI for an accurate description..oh wait...they're probably trademarking their description.

What is happening to Hamilton College?

There seems to be moral bankruptcy at the highest echelons of leadership there.

Good luck to the AHI. Perhaps they can bring some fresh air to undergraduate study.

Let me get this right. A source without attribution supplied HCAGR an excerpt of an e-mail from an author without attribution sent to an unnamed audience that says an independent Alexander Hamilton Institute (nee Center) was established in Clinton by three Hamilton professors. The quote is supplied without comment except for the note that followed. This posting generated three outraged comments, from two unattributed contributors. The first unnamed commentator decries the poor quality of the propaganda. The second decries the moral turpitude at the top and teleologically hopes for a whif of pure intellectual oxygen from just off the green to cleanse polluted undergrads. Ki, somewhat harsly, suggests “they” – whoever they might be – could have stolen better copy. I’m with you hb. We are left with anonymous posters putting forth consistent specific agendas. It is, indeed, time to cut the cord and look for a new way.

Dear Mr. Ed,

This was an exerpt from an email sent by a class representative to classmates:

Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: Fall, 2007 Alumni Council Meeting

It was sent to me by a reader who wanted to stay out of it, which request I honored. I also figured the author didn't need a boatload, so I'm keeping him out as well. The author is merely reflecting some combination of what he was told and what he heard. The email and message are real.

I'm not anonymous. Why are you?

Ah yes, and the Diversity and Social Justice Project (the Project formerly known as Kirkland) is merely a "community service" organization on the Hamilton College campus. Who are we to believe folks? Yikes, who seems more gullible than a gull? Or should we as intelligent human beings focus on the behavior of the college. I prefer the latter, and it ain't pretty.


"A month ago, the AAUP issued a report Freedom in the Classroom that dismissed complaints about “indoctrination” in the classroom as airy nonsense, but allowed that conservatives had succeeded in getting some members of the public worked up. The annual meeting of the American Studies Association carried that idea forward. But note one difference. The AAUP attempted to justify the flood of political views into the classroom as a contribution to opening students’ minds by challenging their preconceptions. The participants at the American Studies Association dropped the pretense and more or less admitted they want to advance a progressive political movement."

For the entire story go here:
http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/

For Ghost,

For someone who has swallowed the HCAGR (i.e., hb's) party line, hook, line and sinker, I find it amusing to be called gullible.

Who do you think has peppered the media with the views and facts cited on phibetacons, ACTA, etc. etc. and their spokespeople, e.g, Roger Kimball, Anne Neal, ad nauseam? Why, hb, of course.

So you're essentially using hb's views to substantiate hb's views! Not methodologically sound, I'm afraid.

At least I have taken the trouble to go to the Hill and actually talk to people: students, faculty, administrators and Trustees.

If you want an informed view, I'd suggest that you look beyond hb's views and get some information that isn't supported only by the circle of information that starts and ends with hb.

Think for yourself!

GOHP - Yikes puts forth an interesting hypothesis, that I have a vast network of agents around the world in think tanks, the educational sector & national media who, like sleeper cells, stand by and silently wait for the word to do my bidding for whatever dark & pathological purpose I suggest.

Hamilton, you see, is a victim of bad publicity and a few mentally unbalanced alumni (dare we add a few faculty?). If you would just stop, there would be no problem. You need to understand that you are the problem. It has nothing to do with the past or continuing behavior of the college.

Yikes!

While it is always good to "talk", an "informed view" starts with the facts, and we have plenty of those....The established facts and behavior of the college are very disturbing without modification, manipulation, amplification or obfuscation by anyone...Forget about "views" or beliefs..We are all entitled to those whether based on fact, talk, fiction or all of the above...The views that start with reality tend to have a lot more value than those that don't...

It's what people do--or don't do that counts--not what they say!!!!

A White Hair Alum,

Absolute truth is not necessarily so easy to discern. The law says the truth of a case is what the jury decides, based on the evidence and the veracity of witnesses. There are two sides to every story.

Here, the silence of the trustees has for many HCAGR supporters, made hb’s version of the truth into “the truth”. The loudest one must be correct.

And for hb,

Your retort about the “vast network of agents around the world in think tanks, the educational sector & national media who, like sleeper cells, stand by and silently wait for the word to do my bidding for whatever dark & pathological purpose I suggest,” excessive and sarcastic to be sure, obfuscates the fact that from the very beginning you have sought out publicity.

For the press and other media, as for some who post here, in the face of silence from the College, your version of the truth has become the “truth”.

Just saying it doesn’t make it so.

Yikes, perhaps the College's silence is not golden.

For Ms. Dana (Yikes), "At least I have taken the trouble to go to the Hill and actually talk to people: students, faculty, administrators and Trustees."

Hunter Brown, I think it is safe to say, has spoken with the founders,and I can imagine that he did so on more than one occasion.

For myself. I have called and spoken to Professor Paquette.He is not a shy fellow. In the course of a long conversation,I asked him if he was prepared to back up his assertions with documentation. He not only said, "yes," he has sent me copies of relevant information. I asked, for example, if he would be willing to send me the letter of 2002 that he wrote to Drew Days. I can attest to its existence, and it is an extraordinary read. Perhaps we can get him to post the document on line.

I know of one (unnamed) former member of Hamilton's board of trustees who asked the administratiin for a copy of the Kirkland Project report. He was brusquely turned down. That is not speculation; that is a fact.

In the hope that the administration and the founders would resolve their differences, I asked Professor Paquette when was the last time President Stewart had contacted him to discuss the AHC. He said November of 2006. I find that remarkable. I would ask Yikes to use her contacts to see if the date is correct.

Although I have not seen the document, I am told that the minutes of the 1 December board meeting undermines the administration's public position. Paquette regards the document as a "tissue of lies." I would ask Ms. Dana to see if she could put her hands on a copy of this document and inform us of its contents.

I quite agree with Ms. Dana that all of us interested in a positive resolution of this matter seek out relevant players and ask them to substantiate their assertions with hard evidence.

I will say at this point that I have found one of the founders quite forthcoming with documentary evidence.

As an aside, a hopeful note in the words of Michael Blasie '07 in the Final Thoughts (last page) of the Summer 07 Alumni Review who wants to bring back school spirit.We had that sense of unity way back when, when the standard form of applause was the snapping of fingers. It startles visiting lecturers and identified us as of one group - Hamilton Students - unique and proud. Return to that, fellow students, and see what happens.

Hamilton College and the AHI makes more news.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/How+to+fix+the+Universities%3a+not+easy%2c+if+you+don't+have+tanks.-a0169089514

"...from the very beginning you have sought out publicity."-Yikes

It is a running complaint that HCGAR has "sought publicity." So what? When injustice is discovered, people who shut up and tow the party line exhibit cowardice, not loyalty.

If everyone just let the Kirkland Project have its way, Ward Churchill might still be teaching kids lies, and hate. We should applaud those who alerted the world to the fact that Ward Churchill is an academic fraud, not whine about the fact that people found out Hamilton invited him to speak in the Chapel.

If Hamilton's reputation has suffered it is because it does stupid, wrong things that damage Hamilton's integrity. Being quite about a lie does not change it into the truth.

Oct 19, 2007 @ 10:55 AM
Observer-Dispatch
CLINTON - David Corn - Washington editor for The Nation, a Fox News Channel contributor and best-selling author - will lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Hamilton College Chapel, College Hill Road.

Corn is the new Washington editor for Mother Jones.

His book, “The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception” (Crown, 2003), was a New York Times best seller.

Corn’s most recent book, “Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War,” which he co-authored with Michael Isikoff, was published in 2006. He also wrote “Deep Background,” a 1999 political thriller, and “Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA’s Crusades” in 1994.

He writes a Web column for The Nation called “Capital Games.” He has a blog at www.davidcorn.com that is part of the Pajamas Media network.

The event is free.

http://www.davidcorn.com/

Same old tune, same old song. The board of trustees has been complicit in the robbery of the soul of Hamilton College. Marketing over substance, fashion over tradition. It started with the Kirkland merger, picked up speed with the residential life decision, and culminated in the collapse of the AHC.

Why is everyone surprised?

how many more years in stewart's contract? who are her biggest board supporters?

I don't know but I think their publicly traded symbol is GS....and you all thought Wall Street was made up of conservative white guys.............