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A senior executive with the Chattanooga Times Free Press told me a
week or so ago that the only way to change the hearts and minds of
our legislators would be to mount a strong and visible campaign... as
did the anti-new-tax protestors last year with their rock-throwing,
glass-smashing, legislative-square-circling, horn-blowing attack.

The proposed Trebuchet assault could very well be the strong and
visible campaign...   ...would certainly be visual!

-k


>Yes, that is my proposed solution. Before cutting football, although it is
>an expensive program, send those worthy engineering students with the
>trebuchets to Nashville. Since I am basically pacifist by nature, I would
>suggest arming the siege engines with only tennis balls or water balloons.
>It would make great street theater, get media attention, and respond to the
>long-standing state of siege that education has been under here . Anyone
>care  to make donations so that the engineering department can build a
>REALLY BIG TREBUCHET? I watched one group of students testing their
>trebuchet outside Grote and it was great fun to watch. Nashville should see
>these too--after all , the legislators seem to have been cowed by the
>anti-tax rock throwers who broke windows last year. Here is a chance to
>answer that act with more intelligence, more humor and less(zero) destruction.
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>Also: a thanks to Joe Dumas' for his courage in getting a valid discussion
>underway. I think the bigger picture demands dramatic action.
>
>Just one lowly adjunct faculty member who works five part-time jobs and
>studies computer science on the side.(hey, as a student, I get cheap health
>benefits!)


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