In response to an off-list review of the list-owner's recent resolution
on the Ken/Cindy issue, I was "moved" to write the following. I offer it
as some kind of clarifying coda:
In some ways we have to trust that the very real issues . . . raised get
worked on in the months and years ahead. There is a wealth of social
benefit in what has happened so long as we attend to the foundations of
our community. It might sometimes escape our conversations, but the
group is about PhDs in Design. That is, we are a community of scholars
with the purpose of grounding our understandings of PhDs in design. We
serve our community through the proper recognition of the trust that
must be sustained in the candidate-supervisor relationship. I may set
puzzles for my students in an honest attempt to point them in an
alternative direction; I may even play the devil's advocate; I may even
approach them in a severe manner. But, the trust is that in all these
various approaches to the relationship, my intention is not confused
with my personality. That is, that my motive is singular - I am about
their learning and their doing of the business of scholarship.
summer time in OZ
keith russell
PS I take Ken's postings on the list-owners' resolution to heart!
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