Here is the full text of the notes taken by the SRC Team during their negotiations with President James Wagner, Dean Robin Forman, and VP Gary Hauk on December 7, 2012.
You can find a PDF of the document here.
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Acrimony and lockdown
Emory’s official news organ and some of the news media are calling last night’s meeting a failure, or accusing students of avoiding “real dialogue.” Here’s what I saw: 7 students and 3 professors entered the dean’s building to negotiate in good faith, after a week of exhaustive planning. The SRC delegates were Pat Blanchfield, Katherine Bryant, Luke Donahue, Navyug Gill, David Mullins, Mael Vizcarra, and Andrew Zonderman. They were accompanied by Professors Jason Francisco (Visual Arts), Anna Grimshaw (ILA), and Noelle McAfee (Philosophy). As many have pointed out, the university forbade any recording, so no one will have an “authoritative” account of the conversation or even its agenda.
Outside, we put up signs, played Motown and Beatles songs, shared coffee, danced, and waved to passersby.
Inside, the delegates were greeted by police at every corner and by an administration that accused us of intimidating opponents into silence.
Negotiating over the cuts. In a show of good faith, we locked down the Admin Building and put cops at the entrances. http://t.co/o90qLzZO—
FakeEmoryUniversity (@FakeEmoryU) December 07, 2012
VP Gary Hauk, Security Guard, and armed Emory PD at security checkpoint before “good faith” meeting #emorycuts twitter.com/EmoryCuts/stat…
— Emory Cuts (@EmoryCuts) December 8, 2012
The students and professors emerged from an hour of hard, fruitless negotiation to speak to the press articulately and hopefully. The president and dean would not even come out and address the public.
Photo by Evan Mah for the Wheel
I have a good idea of who should feel humiliated, and it’s not the people who “lost” in the ersatz negotiations.
Negotiations Collapse
Tonight, the administration showed a profound inability to engage dissent and conduct substantive negotiations in good faith . Our struggle continues – especially since on the topic of future reorganizations, Wagner said “There’s a lot more of this coming.” And there is indeed going to be a lot more coming – from the SRC, too.
We will publish extensive details regarding the substance of negotiations and a formal press statement later this weekend.
