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From: hablutzelml@attmail.com (Margo Lynn Hablutzel )
Date: 13 Mar 94 19:42:25 GMT
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu, lgrant@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie
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Subject: Clarifications re: "Past & Future" Message
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On March 10, 1994, I uploaded a reply to Arval's demand that the 
pressure on the Board be maintained, now that it is up to six members 
again.  The many responses to my posting have been quite interesting, 
and show a great misunderstanding of what I said, which was:

	>> In other words, don't give the new Directors time to get up to
	>> speed and determine what steps to take.  It seems almost as if
	>> Arval is asking that we tell the new Directors, "because you
	>> are a Director and you were chosen by the previous Directors,
	>> you are de facto a bad person."  What other interpretation can
	>> they make of the fact that the impeachment drive continues? 
	>> It is really not fair, IMHO. * * *

	>> I would preach a more moderate line: Let's give them a chance.
	>> * * * If we are really committed to mending the Society, we
	>> should let the new Directors have a chance to get up to speed.
	>> Continuing with the impeachment petitions at this time, or an
	>> immediate barrage of demanding letters, could hurt the cause of
	>> change.

I stand by what I said.  Logic shows that the EARLIEST date on which 
documents could have been received by the new Board members was 
Thursday.  Arval demanded that we continue the barrage of letters even 
before the new Directors would have had a chance to read the Corporate 
documents to determine what your letters are discussing.  That seems to 
be very unfair.  I said "immediate" -- what would be the harm in waiting 
a few days, giving them the weekend in which to acquaint themselves with 
the situation from the Board's perspective?

I also stand by what I said about the impeachment petitions.  You are 
sending the message that "we don't trust you, we don't believe that 
there will be any change."  You are not even giving them a chance!!  
There has been no response to the "Estrella Proclamation," and the 
deadline for that has not yet passed.  Why not suspend the impeachment 
petitions until we have the answer?  It's only a week.

						---=  Morgan Cely Cain

PS:  I do expect to hear strong disagreement from those who believe that
     the New Board Members should not be given time to "acquaint themselves
     with the situation from the Board's perspective."  To be fair, you
     have to let them know what we are talking about, and they must deter-
     mine how the situation happened, which they can do only be reading 
     the many documents to which we have not been privy.