[ASU] Prosper Responds to George

[Hamilton Ilodi]

very well put and I agree but I would say part of attacks are due to personal issue. We need to separate personal issue with business. 



--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Ebenezer Malcalm <em283505 at ohio.edu> wrote:

From: Ebenezer Malcalm <em283505 at ohio.edu>
Subject: Re: [ASU] Prosper Responds to George
To: pytsikata at yahoo.com, asu-l-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu, asu-l at listserv.ohio.edu
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 3:40 PM


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Dear All,
I have  been following the with keen interest the pre-election and post 
elections discussions. I have decided to put across my candid opinion on 
some of the comments of other colleagues. I think some of the comments are 
too hash on Mr Tsikata. As future leaders, we have to tolerate others 
opinion. I also think  dialogue can resolve the current impasse. I 
therefore call on the current executive to convene an emergency meeting to 
discuss the issues raised by Mr. Tsikata.  I was out of town on the 
election day, for that for that matter, i can't comment on the procedure of 
the election. But if it is true that the number of votes casts, were more 
than the number of the voters, then there is fundamental problem.
I trust the leadership of the current executives and hope they can deal 
with the  problem. I would like to use the opportunity to appeal to all 
members to tone down their comments.
I rest my case.
Respectfully,
Ebenezer.


--On Wednesday, March 4, 2009 10:48 AM -0800 PY Tsikata 
<pytsikata at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Members,
>
> Thank you George for responding to the issue of leadership without being
> hostile, as some have done with the use of labels like ?arrogance? and
> ?ignorance? and so on for what they disagree with. They couldn?t simply
> state their opposition to a dissenting view without the ?flash? labels.
> Indeed, this is what is expected of us in the academe, elucidating
> without intimidating, dissenting without slighting, and offering
> alternatives without being emotionally driven.
>
>
>
> I am glad that at least someone like you has been moved in the? last
> beats of the dance? to question  who a future leader is and to proffer
> your definition of what leadership is. I am grateful for that.
>
>
>
> Now, you should appreciate that I did not use the term ?future leaders?
> to downgrade our respected members who have been in myriad of leadership
> roles prior to returning to academe. I simply fell on the label for that
> is the most convenient in this discussion. If for instance, Obasanjo and
> Nujoma and many more top-level leaders, or teachers, community workers,
> and salesmen decide to return to academe, in an address to the student
> body Roderick will not address all this individuals one by one by their
> varied former designations. There is a presumption that those seek
> knowledge, by returning to academe, do so with the recognition that they
> want to improve the clarity and precision of their lens in looking at the
> world or in finding solutions to its mammoth problems in specific areas.
> Proceeding from there, it is obvious that the future is not a static one;
> it could be today, 10 years ago if that was tomorrow and even now as we
> map the path for a better ASU. The bottom line is that the future is in a
> continuum and we can only refer to intelligentsia as the hope for the
> future and its membership as ?future leaders?.
>
>
>
> Let me assure you that we have not arrived at the ?last beats? of the
> dance yet, when you decide to answer the questions I raised in my
> petition about how the number of voter outnumbered the names on the list
> and why some would decide to parade their ballots for others to see, then
> you probably can have the last beats and the last dance.
>
>
>
> Thank you and keep them coming.
>
>
>
> Prosper
>
>
>
>
>



Ebenezer Malcalm
Ph.D Student
Instructional Technology
Ohio University
300 West State Street Apt.G-6
Athens, 45701
Ohio- USA
740 591 1165 (Cell)
740 593 3986 (Home)

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