<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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. <br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 3/4/09, Ebenezer Malcalm <i><em283505@ohio.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Ebenezer Malcalm <em283505@ohio.edu><br>Subject: Re: [ASU] Prosper Responds to George<br>To: pytsikata@yahoo.com, asu-l-bounces@listserv.ohio..edu, asu-l@listserv.ohio.edu<br>Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 3:40 PM<br><br><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">Dear All,<br>I have been following the with keen interest the pre-election and post <br>elections discussions. I have decided to put across my candid opinion on <br>some of the comments of other colleagues. I think some of
the comments are <br>too hash on Mr Tsikata. As future leaders, we have to tolerate others <br>opinion. I also think dialogue can resolve the current impasse. I <br>therefore call on the current executive to convene an emergency meeting to <br>discuss the issues raised by Mr. Tsikata. I was out of town on the <br>election day, for that for that matter, i can't comment on the procedure of <br>the election. But if it is true that the number of votes casts, were more <br>than the number of the voters, then there is fundamental problem.<br>I trust the leadership of the current executives and hope they can deal <br>with the problem. I would like to use the opportunity to appeal to all <br>members to tone down their comments.<br>I rest my case.<br>Respectfully,<br>Ebenezer.<br><br><br>--On Wednesday, March 4, 2009 10:48 AM -0800 PY Tsikata <br><<a ymailto="mailto:pytsikata@yahoo.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=pytsikata@yahoo.com">pytsikata@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Members,<br>><br>> Thank you George for responding to the issue of leadership without being<br>> hostile, as some have done with the use of labels like ?arrogance? and<br>> ?ignorance? and so on for what they disagree with. They couldn?t simply<br>> state their opposition to a dissenting view without the ?flash? labels.<br>> Indeed, this is what is expected of us in the academe, elucidating<br>> without intimidating, dissenting without slighting, and offering<br>> alternatives without being emotionally driven.<br>><br>><br>><br>> I am glad that at least someone like you has been moved in the? last<br>> beats of the dance? to question who a future leader is and to proffer<br>> your definition of what leadership is. I am grateful for that.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Now, you should appreciate that I did not
use the term ?future leaders?<br>> to downgrade our respected members who have been in myriad of leadership<br>> roles prior to returning to academe. I simply fell on the label for that<br>> is the most convenient in this discussion. If for instance, Obasanjo and<br>> Nujoma and many more top-level leaders, or teachers, community workers,<br>> and salesmen decide to return to academe, in an address to the student<br>> body Roderick will not address all this individuals one by one by their<br>> varied former designations. There is a presumption that those seek<br>> knowledge, by returning to academe, do so with the recognition that they<br>> want to improve the clarity and precision of their lens in looking at the<br>> world or in finding solutions to its mammoth problems in specific areas.<br>> Proceeding from there, it is obvious that the future is not a static one;<br>> it could be today, 10 years ago if that was
tomorrow and even now as we<br>> map the path for a better ASU. The bottom line is that the future is in a<br>> continuum and we can only refer to intelligentsia as the hope for the<br>> future and its membership as ?future leaders?.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Let me assure you that we have not arrived at the ?last beats? of the<br>> dance yet, when you decide to answer the questions I raised in my<br>> petition about how the number of voter outnumbered the names on the list<br>> and why some would decide to parade their ballots for others to see, then<br>> you probably can have the last beats and the last dance.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Thank you and keep them coming.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Prosper<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br><br><br>Ebenezer Malcalm<br>Ph.D Student<br>Instructional Technology<br>Ohio University<br>300 West State Street Apt.G-6<br>Athens, 45701<br>Ohio- USA<br>740 591 1165
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