New College Independent Alumni/ae Association

In these final days of the financial free fall that began in 2002, frantic faculty and school staff facing unemployment are understandably upset. No one likes to face the prospect of looking for work at middle age in an economic downturn in an industry flooded with cheap, young, new PhDs. Then again, things are tough all over, and unlike many alumni of the school, they can at least collect unemployment insurance.

While I do empathize with their outrage at having their health benefits terminated without notice, I have to ask where they were when students were treated with similar disdain by the administration over these past five years. I don’t recall any public protests from them then.

Still, injustice is injustice, and if the school employees (using the term loosely, since the paychecks are months in arrears) want to go on the warpath, then more power to them. But out of respect to the students and alumni and whistleblowers who had the courage to speak out publicly, please don’t whine about the world being unfair. We already know that.

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