Division Letter to NCA re: 2008 Convention Site Controversy

[Pat J. Gehrke]

Admittedly, this is a bit post-hoc, but the officers have been working on a draft of a letter to NCA about the convention site controversy.  I have attached a copy of that letter here so that division members can offer some feedback and comments on the letter before we finalize the draft.  This is a draft and is not for distribution.  It is attached to this post as a Adobe PDF file.

I want to emphasize that what we have here is a draft. 

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I look forward to any input.

-Pat

[Jim Mackin]

Good letter, Pat.  The only change I would suggest is trivial: Change "who" to "whom" in the second bullet point under recommended practices.

I suspect the problem derives from a bureaucracy's tendency to overvalue efficiency at the expense of transparency and participative democracy.


Jim Mackin
Tulane University