More Obuscation from GK Bunker

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From: lee decesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:56 PM
Cc: 'darrellAndrews@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'susanBacklund@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'jasonBarshay@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'PaulaBavilacqua@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'newtonBeardsly@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'maryBendickson@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'brentBenson@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'josephBentrovato@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'annaBerrios@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'jenniferBeyer@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'dianneBirkhead@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'kathyBlount@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'darleneBone@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'michaelBrennan@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'pattyBriggs@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'geneBroda@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'margaretBrookins@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'coletteBrown@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'kathyBryant@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'sheilaBryant@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'michelleBurditt@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'minnieBurrows@hcc.cc.fl.us'; 'davidCabeceiras@hcc.cc.fl.us'
Subject: Monkey Biz as Usual at GK Bunker

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From: lee decesare

John Huerta thinks he is being Carl Rovian with this duplicitous answer to my request for an alumni list. He sends me a solemn reference to the FERPA students-parents-right-to-privacy law.

I think John's brain may have further atrophied from hanging out with the quidnuncs of the GK bunker. Or his hours of surfing the Web on school time for unorthodox aesthetic experiences may have discombobulated him.

Le Huerta must know that FERPA does not cover the adults of the Alumni Association. If he doesn't, things are worse than we thought at GK.

Dr. Stephenson should order a bunch of those Gulliver's Travels "bladders" (balloons) that the Laputans bopped each other over the head with to shock a lollygagger back into the world of reality. GK Laputans need a good whack on the noggin from a Gulliver bladder to wake them up.

ldd

[mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:21 PM

To: Tiger Bay Club of Tampa
Cc: Warren Rachels; richardlong@hcc.edu; carolynadams-molloy@hcc.cc.fl.us; billdavis@hcc.cc.fl.us; ericjoost@hcc.cc.fl.us; Mark@sdhc.k12.fl.us; waltellis@hcc.cc.fl.us; 'Maida Bello'; Frank Sanchez
Subject: Tish: Please give this to Larry Wilder. Thank you. Lee

Larry,

I see you are treasurer of the HCC Alumni Association. I want to contact its members to alert them to an injustice that the HCC administration is perpetuating unless people oppose them. Dr. Stephenson is outsourcing the bookstore and dumping long-standing (some 20+ years of faithful service) bookstore employees into the minimum-wage, no benefits ghetto. Other segments of the college are terrified that they will be next.

The refugees of the administration's cruelty will lose their pension plans and health care. One, Maido Bello, has had brain surgery for a balance problem that has put her on a cane; she won't be able to get health insurance. One of the administrators, Ms. Flaigg, told Maida she would have three months' coverage after the college outsources her job. The administration is all heart.

The Gordon Keller bureaucrats are interested in education only as a financial basis for their various projects. They have a long-standing practice of setting up for-show committees to fool the trustees that ostensibly include college-wide members to assess policies and to make recommendations about them. It has one for the bookstore privatizing. But the administration pays no attention to these fake committees and does exactly what it wants to do. Dr. Stephenson refers to her "business model" often and seems bent on turning the college into a business.

A college is not a business: it is a vector for passing education on to subsequent generations and a model of ethical conduct for the community that it serves. Dr. Stephenson appears to have forgotten this mission if she ever embraced it.

Dr. Stephenson has earned editorial censure from even the conservative Tribune editorial writers for another despicable gesture of indifference to the wellbeing of vulnerable elements of the community that heretofore had the college's support. She proposes dumping Head Start and erecting an apartment house on college property. Head Start is one of the most successful enterprises devised for helping impoverished families become self-sustaining members of the community by providing a place for their children when they are working or attending class. Dr. Stephenson wants to dump these children because they do not fit into her "business model." No wonder the Tribune's letters-to-the-editor featured so many citizen emails condemning HCC administration's callous treatment of Head Start children.

I doubt that the HCC Alumni Association would condone the administration's diversion of the college's goal from providing education based on an ethical model of behavior in its own conduct. I doubt it would sanction dumpling long-time employees and kicking out Head Start tots so as to make possible Dr. Stephenson's actualization of her "business model."

I am having trouble getting through to the Alumni Association. See John Huerta's attached letter. He refers me to the FERPA law that has to do with the rights of students and parents. This is one of Le Huerta's delaying tactics. He came to the college with Dr. Stephenson, she created him a job, and then Le John began some celebrated irregular computer searches for which he got no rebuke. Faculty or student would have gotten the sack forthwith. But Mr. Huerta is a child of destiny and Dr. Stephenson's pet.

Alumni are not students. They are grown-ups who have graduated from HCC. There is no reason to prevent my getting in touch with them to let them know about the Bookstore outsourcing outrage against faithful employees and the kicking out of the Head Start tots so that alumni can weigh in on these actions if they want to.John's parents-children flimflam is a symptom of the HCC administration's terror of anybody's knowing what is going on in their bunker. People might protest. The Board might wake up. The maladroit administrators might be sent packing.

I would appreciate your providing me with contact information for the Alumni Association. This is not illegal information.

I didn't know you graduated from HCC. What year? Whom did you have for English? Now I know why you hate me: you believed my reputation as a witch and tough grader in the lunch room student underground. Everybody hates an English teacher who makes them learn grammar and punctuation.

Why doesn't Tiger Bay have Dr. Stephenson as guest to explain her "college plan" to the political community? Frank Sanchez's mother, Delia, was one of the principals in pioneering Head Start in this area. I believe Delia is a Tiger Bay member; at least I know she attends from time to time. Delia would have an interesting question for Dr. Stephenson on the way she has treated the Head Start tots that would win Delia the tiger for best question. Invite all of the Board members. They would want to be present for sure.

Thank you for your help.

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