Trustees lend an ear
Laney Tower
December 17, 2007
By Lucy Taube
In a parallel universe, Laney Students were lining up at the mic to voice their concerns about the campus to their student trustees during a recent Town Hall Meeting.
In this universe, the roar lulled for a few moments as trustee Reginald James attempted to coax a response from the crowd, as he put it, "between bites of French fries, soup and everything." Growling stomachs aside, it became clear that students weren't ready to step up to the soapbox. "Well that's good news, everything is fine with Peralta," James joked to the crowd. Could it be true? Everything was fine, no one was having problems with the food, the classes, the financial aid tangle?
Abandoning the soapbox for small group conversations, James and Marlene Hurd, the other student trustee, made their way from table to table soliciting responses from groups of hungry Laney students. After a moment it became clear
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." - Frederick Douglass