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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12600)	2/18/2006 10:14:57 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541327

I understand that and being an emotional creature I respond to that which agrees with my thinking.. often neglecting any critical analysis which I have never been good at anyway. However, as an example of what I get emotional about I want to excerpt a wonderful moving article I read last night in Business Week..where incidentally there is a GREAT article on SSL.. The article called Campus Revolutionary talks about the new president of Amherst College.. His name is only Marx(no relation to you know who) was educated in public schools in NY, BA from Yale,MA Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Ph.D from Princeton. Spent three years on and off in South Africa during apartheid, helping to found Kanya College which prepared 1,000 young blacks to attend white universities. There he was engulfed in near civil war conditions. A friend of Mandela.. whom he says is our greatest living moral icon... Get the magazine if you can and read as this article goes into much more depth than I can post here but the substance is what I hoped to convey. Anyway that's a little of his background. He didn't apply for the position as president he was recruited so when he met with the committee he made an impassioned appeal's wit.. Elite U.S. college such as Amherst are perpetuating deep inequalities in American society. They equate success with serving the privileged elite and have largely abandoned talented youth from poor families. This deepens the country's growing class divisions and exacerbates the long-term decline in economic an social mobility. ( I love that paragraph and believe it so deeply) Marx exhorted the trustees to tackle the problem head on. I am not interested in being a custodian over a privileged place... he said Guess what they hired him and he hopes to enroll more poor kids by raising up to $ 500.000 million partly to create 120 or so new slots for them. That way affluent students' admission odds won't be lowered.. ETC. lots more. One of the observations in the article... He is challenging everything from an admissions process titled toward affluent student to social customs that divide rich and poor students on campus.. More than half of Amherst's students come from families prosperous enough to pay the full $ 42.000 a year annual tab and many shell out thousand more for cars, meals out and other extras. One student showed up recently with two BMW's.. one a convertible for sunny days. (:( WE were just blown away by Marx's passion and commitment recalls Jide Zeitl, a partner of Goldman,Sachs who has since become chair of Amherst's board. Isn't it great that there are human beings like this who are working to change some of the inequities in our current system and make it more inclusive ? I think so.