School president to student: "Get on the internship bus and leave governing to real people."
Why the change in tune for Mike "if you get elected to the House of Delegates, I'll give you 15 credits of DRW" Farris? Could it be that the idea of a student making decisions about the school's water and construction requests is more frightening than that of one making grand changes to the commonwealth's religious liberty, freedom of contract, and civil liberty protections? Perhaps concerns about allegations of the school "leaning on" a member of the council with whom they have a relationship of trust? Six years atop the institution just left him more jaded about the present potential of those little rising leaders? We report, you decide...
(article here for the next few weeks)
(In the interest of fairness to Mr. Farris, note that his DRW offer of long ago was not meant seriously or literally at the time. It is not inconsistent with his general interest in the ascent to positions of influence, but was understood as light-hearted encouragement, not a bargain.)
4 comments:
It's hard to discern Farris's precise attitude from the two quotes in the paper. He may just think sophomores need a bit of experience before taking such a job.
True, Derby.
And perhaps he knows the guy well enough that his comments are actually a very restrained version of his personal assesment of the candidate. (Most likely, if any of a number of students had run for the council as sophomores -- JCFCV, Mason, etc. -- he would not have come down the same.)
As I have thought about it, it was probably a tough question to deal with. He can't "no comment" a student running for governement, that looks really bad. He evidently doesn't back Tim for whatever reason. But he also can't really go after him, since some of the school's "aura"/mission is on the line. Going after the decision to run and not the candidate himself seems the best option left to him.
he lost, anyway...
Maybe everyone else is thinking it, but I have to say it: that is incredibly amusing.
Hope all is well with you and yours!
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