Thank you, Manda
It really made me smile to see that people don't think I'm nuts or fighting a lost cause.
I got the best Christmas gift EVER!!! We're getting a meeting with the President!! The Dean got in touch with us yesterday night and told us that the President is "quite willing" to meet with us! He's out of the office until mid-January, so we're going to schedule a meeting for the end of January. The spring semester started the last week of January, so hopefully we'll squeeze in right before it starts and we all deal with the hectic first few weeks of classes. She also told us that when they discussed it further that no formal proposal of the idea has ever been presented to the Board of Trustees, just that some of them had expressed to the President on a personal level that they were not interested in it. Which is encouraging, to me - it means that we have the ability to come in and demonstrate on a clean slate, as far as proposals go, and really dispel some of the misconceptions and instigate a constructive conversation about how to build a strong community on campus and how it can be a positive thing.
I'm so excited!!
And really flattered - the Dean made a comment in the email that, regardless of the outcome of this project, she's "grateful to have us as students" and that we "express wonderfully the kind of students we want" - such amazing praise from her!
Oh, I'm so happy. We just want the chance to speak - to be given the opportunity to at least represent our idea before it's shot down. I'm glad the President was willing to change his mind and speak with us!
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