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February 22, 2007
Student Union.
Whatever happened to liberal college students? You know the kind that could be counted on to blindly support any effort that would seem to be helpful to their fellow man? Where are the coombyya singing, soft-headed, love-is-all-you-need do-gooders? Kids these days, with their common sense and their official resolutions and such. What's the world coming to?
The UTC Student Government Association's resolution against Ron Littlefield's hubris-driven Homeless Hilton (TM Billy Blades) was a reasoned argument against painting a bull’s-eye target over the square mile surrounding UTC. It addressed the upswing in crime in the UTC area, the negative effect that crime will have on new student recruitment, the desire to continue the redevelopment of the MLK area. Huh, nothing about a City of Compassion in there. Damn kids. Aren't they susceptible to bad spin-meistering?
This is what the students had to say about their resolution: "We took this vote very seriously. While we want to be compassionate to the homeless population in Chattanooga, our responsibility is to represent the needs of UTC students. Ultimately, most of the senators thought that the complex would not have a positive effect on our campus,” said Osha Robinson, public relations director for the UTC Student Government Association.
Well said and well done.
The SGA held debate and discussion amongst the student population and the city at large. They invited both sides to come and discuss the issue with them. Ron Littlefield couldn't, or wouldn't, be bothered to come and discuss the issue. But the SGA kept the conversation going and never took a shot at Ron and his insulting refusal to enter a conversation. Instead, Ron chose to treat them like irrelevant children.
That made his childish response to their resolution all the more enjoyable. Well, for me anyway.
I mean, first he ignores them completely, then he's forced into issuing a press release in response. That is Littlefield's pointless administration in a nutshell.
MichMich ham-fistedly tried to pull off the 'that-didn't-just-happen' response: We're 'encouraged' that the UTC SGA is calling for more student participation in the homeless issue. Uh, no. Nice try, but the UTC SGA just bitch-smacked you upside the head in front of the whole city. And thanks to the Internet, the whole Google-searching world. Of course, MichMich had to slip a little spin in the response as well. Sorry, but 'overwhelming' is not the word to describe the research in support of a one-stop-shop for the homeless. There is some research for that idea, but there's as much or more that says that it's a terrible idea and devastating to a diverse, balanced neighborhood.
This wasn't the first loss Littlefield has suffered on this issue, and it won't be the last, but it was the most embarrassing.
The kids are alright.
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