Move to Boycott Senior Challenge
This just arrived in our e-mail, addressed to a large number of Marquette graduating seniors.
Hey there Senior Friends!
I am outraged by the action of the Board of Trustees earlier this week. The disregard for student input on this issue was embarrassing and contrary to all I have grown to hope in for Marquette.
I am attaching a letter I have written in response to the request for donations for Senior Challenge. I urge you to send this letter, or write your own, to Alumni Relations, the Office of the President, or any one else you wish too. This is truly one of the only ways to hope that you University may start to listen.
Further, I have spoken with many underclassmen leaders about motivating the students to wear BLUE shirts next year to athletic events. I think this is the perfect way to support our teams continue to stand up for our own voice. It is my hope that as Seniors, we would be willing to take our $20 and put it towards shirts for the underclassmen rather than the Marquette Fund. Let me know how you feel about this.
I am open to feedback, I hope to see you all during Senior Week. Please pass this email on if you like to other Senior friends, and remember how hard our friends worked to make this decision about student input and discussion rather than arbitrariness we were shown.
Christian Eichenlaub
The attachment sent with this e-mail is here.
Eichenlaub is a leftist political activist on campus, President of the Gay/Straight Alliance. If he doesn’t like the University’s actions, it's hard to imagine that the College Republicans like them any better.
We just came from a meeting that featured John F. Bergstrom, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and he was downplaying the risk of the University losing any contributions because of the farcical “Gold” decision. It seems that in the past alumni have groused and complained but failed to put their money where their mouths were.
Seniors are hardly big bucks contributors, but if they withhold their money, that might be a sign to the University that they have finally pushed their stakeholders too far.
Hey there Senior Friends!
I am outraged by the action of the Board of Trustees earlier this week. The disregard for student input on this issue was embarrassing and contrary to all I have grown to hope in for Marquette.
I am attaching a letter I have written in response to the request for donations for Senior Challenge. I urge you to send this letter, or write your own, to Alumni Relations, the Office of the President, or any one else you wish too. This is truly one of the only ways to hope that you University may start to listen.
Further, I have spoken with many underclassmen leaders about motivating the students to wear BLUE shirts next year to athletic events. I think this is the perfect way to support our teams continue to stand up for our own voice. It is my hope that as Seniors, we would be willing to take our $20 and put it towards shirts for the underclassmen rather than the Marquette Fund. Let me know how you feel about this.
I am open to feedback, I hope to see you all during Senior Week. Please pass this email on if you like to other Senior friends, and remember how hard our friends worked to make this decision about student input and discussion rather than arbitrariness we were shown.
Christian Eichenlaub
The attachment sent with this e-mail is here.
Eichenlaub is a leftist political activist on campus, President of the Gay/Straight Alliance. If he doesn’t like the University’s actions, it's hard to imagine that the College Republicans like them any better.
We just came from a meeting that featured John F. Bergstrom, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and he was downplaying the risk of the University losing any contributions because of the farcical “Gold” decision. It seems that in the past alumni have groused and complained but failed to put their money where their mouths were.
Seniors are hardly big bucks contributors, but if they withhold their money, that might be a sign to the University that they have finally pushed their stakeholders too far.
posted by John McAdams at 2:30 PM
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