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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I understood his use of "cancer" but now that I read his use of "apartheid," he is being dramatic.
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Agreed. This was to a large extent a PR stunt to try to improve the national organization's relationship with its insurance carrier and with its host universities. Overly dramatic "journalism" (
) begat overly dramatic justifications by the ESA.
From what I've heard, he knew full well that the correct approach was to either wait until the next biennial convention, or to submit the matter to a direct vote by mail of the convention's membership, in either case the majority of votes belonging to the undergraduates. He also suspected (perhaps rightly so) that were such a vote to be conducted on his proposal, it would get shot down by a landslide vote in opposition. So, the only way he could get his proposal enacted as policy was to simply declare it to be so by executive order, sidestepping the inconvenience of the usual and democratic legislative process.
Now that this new policy has been handed down from on high, he needs to conduct a marketing campaign in the hope of garnering enough public support -- or at least among university administrators and news media -- as to make it as difficult as possible for the next biennial convention to rescind the new program.
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