New College Independent Alumni/ae Association

Some alumni/ae feel that unless the trustees are held accountable to the full extent of the law, then the efforts to democratize the school have been in vain. I disagree.

While I would personally like to see a successful class-action lawsuit against those responsible for the institution’s demise, the benefits of having held the trustees accountable in the court of public opinion is nothing to sneeze at. That took a lot of guts and effort.

So whether or not justice ends up being served by the confrontation, truth has already been. One of the truths discovered, in fact, is that justice is a rarely attained commodity, but sometimes we find that the dignity we achieve in courageously pursuing it is in itself worth the endeavor.

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