We, the authors of the "Impeach Shirley
Campaign," would like to comment on the innacurate comments on our site.
Firstly, the "impeach" thing is a JOKE. We are WELL aware that you cannot
impeach the president of an Institute. It is a political statement. Sorry if
you're one of the only people on campus who doesn't get it.
As for your comment on the Princeton
Review ratings, we are merely stating what the Princeton Review has said in
their ratings. We did not say that the ratings went up or down from previous
surveys. Isn't it bad enough that we're merely in the top 20? So what if we've
been down from #9. We still made it to #16 this year, over all 345 schools in
the list. Please read more carefully next time.
We are not trashing the school itself. We
are stating our opinions that the President is negatively affecting the lives of
the students. ***This is America.*** We are free to state our opinions (as are
you and all others) whether or not it offends anyone else. You are wildly
inaccurate in your judgment of our website, but there's nothing we can do except
reply in this forum.
Also, we have replied to your comments on
when the construction occurred in the "Campus 'Beautification'" section (see
above). We were here at school all summer and were witness to the progress of
the construction. A mere month before school, they commenced construction again,
probably in an effort to fool the incoming students into thinking that they had
been working all summer. Putting up a fence for two weeks and paving over the
old school field does not indicate progress. (Incidentally, there was no need to
pave it for parking since that lot is at most half full all day.) Unless you
were here all summer, then you can't really say WHEN the construction occurred.
It's true, it started in mid-May, but it was put on hold for most of the summer
while most students were gone and then started up again right before school
started.
When we first started this campaign, it
was a private joke. We didn't realize that so many people would support us,
including many professors. The only work that we have done publicizing our
website is telling some people when we give them stickers. We have only
distributed less than 50 stickers. The Institute population is at least 7,000.
Our distribution level is still pretty small, yet our website has received over
20 hits in the last 2 hours. We don't know where these people are getting the
address, but it's spreading like wildfire. We have received numerous requests
for stickers and emails stating general support. That's gotta mean something.
If you had a problem with the accuracy of
our website, why didn't you have the balls to write to the author instead of
posting on some other bulletin board? We just happened to come here while trying
to search for our website using google. It
just so happens that we can't find our own Impeach Shirley website, but could
find your inaccurate take on it. Funny, isn't it. If you really think we were
wrong, you should let us know so we can adjust it. We are willing to work with
anyone who has ideas and information. We would appreciate any constructive
comments. After all, we are only human.
funlovinjared writes "First our school gets trashed in the ratings, then this. I don't know who made it but its more evidence of the growing unhappiness at RPI."