Opinion: You Must Join Social Media, President Alivisatos!

Dear Readers,

It is so much more important than ever, that NO major institution fails to interact openly and fully with its neighbors. Here is a copy of this email I just wrote and sent to President Paul Alivisatos of The University of Chicago. -Sid:

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From: Sid Colton <s220sid2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 9:01 AM
Subject: A long history of not communicating with the community ... another step in actual communication
To: President Paul Alivisatos <President@uchicago.edu>

Dear President Alivisatos,

I believe things are improving.

However the record of many many parts of The University of Chicago in communicating-and-interacting with both its students and with the Hyde Park and neighboring communities ... has been awful over the past 70 years or so.

Can you be sure that all parts of the UofC, especially the UofC Police and the UofC community affairs departments, are now aggressively interacting with our students, our alumni, our staff, our faculty, and the Hyde Park community ... via every important social media outlet.

I am sure you agree, no good comes from a total-lack-of-communication; and enormous good for everyone comes, with open and visible and easy communication between the University and its neighbors!

Thank you very much.

Sid Colton
College Class of 1973 / College A.B. Behavioral Science 1989 / Retired 1975-2021 UChicago Staff /
Patch Mayor for the Hyde Park Patch ... "Mayor Sid"
Member of the HP-Kenwood Interfaith Anti-Violence Task Force