MISSIONS

-Goods exchanged for services
-Who initiated the change of the mission/ when?
-a building that is free to enter
-who's entrusted (trust)
-strives, "trying", "effort"
-maybe there shouldn't be discrepancy between narrative (internal/external)
-this will be for fundraising and development, an anchor, then for attracting students
-emancipatory vs defeatist, contrast, written from the perspective of valuing contrasting
-it doesn't make sense, why don't we embrace our unique position
-dual purpose mission
-words that speak
-"this is really what we're trying to do here"
-could a stakeholder group write the mission?
-question cultural tendencies, what is stated/unstated
-subject/object activity vs passivity (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087rt4z)
-applied/embodied mission
-non-draft mission statement, Current Mission
-this is far from self-evident and clear
-he's not alive today
-what do ""people"" need to know
-intention, intending, tending (garden)
-identity crisis, riddle: n Greek legend, the Sphinx devoured all travelers who could not answer the riddle it posed: "What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?" The hero Oedipus gave the answer, "Man," causing the Sphinx's death.
-"a tragic chapter at this great school has ended!"
-a trust is a promise, speculative futurity
-living persons embody a living thing (an ecosystem)
-should our financial situation be in the mission statement
-the ag not the students had standing
-the new one is pushing a self-righteous "right" & "wrong" (what people should do)
-let's keep is less stable (bi-stable words)
-how free is free, non determined "free"
-Cooper Union declarative , Cooper's union, non possessive (his trust/ will)
-language in the wrong hands, we can anticipate misunderstanding
-founding (it founded itself),
-transformative through career & success
-these are all found in websites
-seer, speech bubble
-the idea of literacy
-non-engagement, promising, suffocating, over-explained, cover-up, stand-in
-fail in/fail better, this is pitching a vertical one-track
-*can thoughts escape embodiment*
-is it wordy because people have co-opted/appropriated language that would be convincing as a selling--- so what are we supposed to use? We can think about what pushed the drafters to write it this way
-what would it mean to do something different?
-what in-expressable (ever) pilgrimage (junray)
-where does history fit into a mission vs absent minded promise
-how is this language changed by now having to focus on "the pitch"
-irreducible non-consumptive historical richness
-why is it trying to "persuade"
-cult of self, why elevate
-puts up borders, claustrophobic, exclusive, "super egalitarian", utopian, amidst
-who seeks who?? Seeking
-why omit what happened
-"an awareness"
-confounded by
-monstrous polyphony- "it's a disaster!"
-let's embrace ambivalence, we need contrast to "the rest" look what they're saying... "As consumers seek mindfulness and well-being as an antidote to modern day stresses, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill our yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent."
-"stated" mission


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