Journal Quilt Eleven

Journal quilt, ummm, eleven. Had to go back and count. In a few weeks, I'll be teaching a digitizing class where we will digitize this little thread velvet flower. Not that it will look like this, I had to go back and tweak the instructions and redo the sample. It's so easy to make the little adjustments to someone else's work, so hard to write out the instructions in the first place. That applies to lots of things, actually, we're always standing on someone else's shoulders.

I'm going to lunch with a friend at a little restaurant close to the river and am hoping the rainy sky clears up so I can combine lunch with a walk through the business district and small river park.

Feeling sad this morning for various reasons, one of which was the incident with a few University of Mississippi's band members and their green card remark to a Hispanic player. One of my former colleagues wrote a very elegant response to what he thought the school's president should have said when he apologized.

University of Mississippi's President Saunders: "We deeply regret the remarks made by a few students at today's game. The words of these individuals do not represent the sentiments of our pep band, athletic department, or university. We apologize to Mr. Rodriguez and will take quick and appropriate disciplinary action against the students involved in this isolated incident."

Brian Reed: "This is a classic non-apology apology. Why can't a University President just once say, "Our insitution obviously failed these students. Our goal is to foster intellectual curiosity, rigorous thought, reason, compassion, and humility. As such, it is clear that we have failed to deliver on that promise to these students. As an insitutiton we have much soul searching to do as we examine how our students could receive a Southern Miss education and still be capable of what can only be described as unabashed racism.""

Brian is Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students at Dartmouth College. I am so honored to have served on a Student Life team with him.