Resolution in Honor of Senator Allison Heisch
AS-2374-97/San Jose - May 8-9, 1997
WHEREAS, Senator Allison Heisch has since 1989 been the leading member of the
San José State University delegation to this august body; and
WHEREAS, Senator Heisch is widely admired for her demure demeanor, her non-combative
style, and her reticence and restraint in her comments both
public and private, as well as for her ability to listen patiently to widely
divergent opinions espoused by others, to praise the cogency of their
thought and elegance of their expression, thoughtfully to consider and
indeed to cherish the views of all, especially those who have the
common decency to come around to her position; and
WHEREAS, On those extremely rare occasions when she has deigned to speak out, her
presentations have generally had the salutary effect of freeing her
auditors from Lethe's coils; and
WHEREAS, It is rumored that Allison has come to the conclusion that Senate trips
have impacted negatively and incrementally on the time available to her
for attending San José State Spartan men's athletic contests, and in
particular football and basketball games; and
WHEREAS, Senator Heisch has apparently seen so much from the awesome heights
of the positions of power and influence she has occupied here that she is
probably dazzled by the brilliance of the latest plans to leverage faculty
intellect and, what is more, absolutely thrilled by the calls of truly
inspired academic leaders for the synergistic melding of providers,
stakeholders, benchmarkers, partners, Power-Point presenters, economic
competitors, total quality managers, value-added retailers, Central Asian
chicken farmers, and library despoilers, that she is probably experiencing
intellectual and aesthetic overload although she characteristically has
nothing to say about any of these ways of doing academic business and
certainly would not use words like "vile," "tacky" or "disgusting"; and
WHEREAS, Because of her uncommon sense of propriety and modesty, not to
mention priorities, she has chosen retirement from the Senate although
she may secretly wish she could be here to marvel at the stunningly
stupid things that are bound to transpire in the near future; and
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