Response to Alumni Reception with Jane Maher

I write in response to Jane Maher's speech at the alumni reception.  In her brief, yet captivating speech she said something along the lines of how she is amazed by how scholars and educators today still continue to bring down her name and her association with Open Admissions.  I guess I hadn't thought of that view.  Sometimes, we read articles and books in this program, and don't pay too much attention to the author.  However, with Mina, it's as though she can't escape her inevitable connection to Open Admission, despite it not being of her own design.  As Jane spoke, I could sense how bothered she was by the fact that people keep attempting to tarnish her image and legacy nearly forty years after her passing.  Mina was a revolutionary.  Sure, she didn't have it perfect, but she sought to fix the imperfect nature of the broken system.  Too often do we look at the negative, when we ought to look at the other side.