http://sites.middlebury.edu/onedeansview/2007/10/29/42-commons-part-iv-done-deal/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:46:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sites.middlebury.edu/onedeansview/2007/10/29/42-commons-part-iv-done-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Anonymous Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:12:36 +0000 http://deanofthecollege.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/42-commons-part-iv-done-deal/#comment-23 Unfortunately, I do not believe the lack of attendance is due to students agreeing with the change. While they are busy, the real reasons are a bit more bleak. Many do not feel the administration acutally cares about their views. Such changes as the RA/CRA ones done despite the majority opinion to the contrary (a prime example being the loss of Dean David Edleson, who epitomized what the Deans should be, and one of the only real hopes to the Commons system) had a poor effect on the trust of students. Beyond that, the commons system does not directly affect the lives of most students except for housing concerns. They, thus far, have not constituted a real community on campus (apart from the select group of students directly involved in commons councils) and thus fixing the housing situation makes the entire issue of the commons system moot for the majority of students.

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