Re: Political turf problems

[Lynne Belcher <lrbelcher@saumag.edu>]

I'm not sure I believe that everything that is effective is also fun.  
I don't mean to sound like a puritan, but I'm not sure everything has 
to be or can be fun.  I like to garden, and I find the activity very 
therapeutic, but pulling weeds in hot temperatures isn't my idea of 
fun.  If I want to have a good garden, however, I have to do the hard 
stuff as well as the fun stuff.

I know we've also talked about how a university community doesn't have 
to mirror the rest of the world, but aren't there some lessons students 
can learn that will help them cope with life after college?  Time spent 
on a project doesn't always equal success.  So even though a student 
spends a lot of time on a paper, it can still be a bad piece of 
writing.  I think I learn as much from failure as from success.  As the 
legendary Bobby Zimmerman says, "There's no success like failure, and 
failure's no success at all."  (Whatever that means!)

Lynne Belcher, a proud failure at many things that weren't fun or 
effective!