Everything Karen writes is veracious. I am a member of UCHS and I do
believe the positions taken by the Board of Directors of any civic group
should be reported in its newsletters to its members in a timely manner.
Maybe I missed that notice -- I'm a sloppy reader of all the newsletters
that nestle in my mailslot -- but I didn't notice that announcement.
That is, however, the only "public announcement" any association needs
to make about its decisions. Its chief obligation is to its members.
Nonmembers who want to know what an association is up to, must either
join the association, or ask nicely. Not my rules....
Nothing Glenn writes is veracious. He monotonously alleges "secret"
conspiracies, of which he never offers evidence. Where are the
transcripts? Where are the tapes? Where are the participants with second
thoughts who go public on the conspiracy? In this case, they don't exist.
Conspiracy-theory peddlers never lack a market. They appeal to
widespread, deeply human concerns. There are conspiracies, after all.
But they are seldom unmasked by conspiracy theorists. True learning
requires an open-mindedness that is deeply threatening to those who need
life to be cast in stark, angry clashes of black and white. They can't
listen to the other side, or even acknowledge its humanity. As a result,
they are poor sources of information about everyday life; and the more
important the practical issues are, the less reliable are paranoid
answers, for most of us.
-- Tony West
I was that "lowly UCHS member" who spoke against Campus Inn at the
first PHC hearing, and I was specifically named in Belynda Stewart's
editorial letter to UC Review, where she made a deliberate point of
saying that I was merely a one-out-of-500 member, and did not speak
for the organization. She then went on to pump up the opinion of
another one-out-of-500 member by stating that the proposal was
supported by a prominent neighborhood Realtor who was also a former
UCHS Board member (as was I, but that somehow didn't get mentioned.
Oddly, the fact that I've served on the boards of a number of
community groups over the past 20 years got left out too). So reading
between the lines, that didn't sound very neutral to me.
It also seems very odd that there has been NO official public
announcement of the UCHS Board vote against the proposal, which was
announced by an individual Board member testifying at the PCPC hearing
earlier in the summer (but unfortunately, since the PCPC hearing
minutes do not include the text of what the witnesses said, that's not
readily apparant to those who were not in attendance).
Karen Allen
> Both SHCA and UCHS leaders betrayed this community and their own
memberships. The gangs' leaders have been secretly colluding with the
Penn team from the beginning, over a year ago, while doing everything
in their power to keep all Penn's plans secret. They were secretly
involved with the initial attempt to demolish the property over a year
ago and continued to cloak the false claims of massive community support.
>
> Shame, shame, shame!!!
>
> Mr. Moyer
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