Re: current events (Leff)

["C. Bond" <bondc@KIVA.NET>]

At our university we're also being encouraged to "talk about this," which
means use it in class. Turn this tragedy of unbelievable scope into an
academic exercise.

Forty thousand in the WTC. Dead. No, I am not going to show such
incredible disrespect by turning it into a lesson plan. Not now. Perhaps
when we have begun to heal, when pain and loss have transformed into
memorialization, yes, much as we might discuss the Holocaust. But now, oh
no. Bodies are still being uncovered. Many of us are still numb, unable to
believe that this actually happened.

I think I will withdraw and grieve a while. It is the only thing I can do.
Mention of "showing solidarity" and "past US sins" makes my fury blaze as
hot as the incident itself. Old age, I guess.

--
Clay M. Bond, Operations and Decision Technologies
Indiana University Kelley School of Business BU438