The group hopes the IGC will help formalize the publishing process as a symbol of support not to be confused with endorsement. “To go back on that seems unfair.”įor now the document will be saved and archived. “The document has legitimacy,” committee member Sarah O’Connor ’13 said. For some, the resolution took time to settle. This, the group came to conclude, means a call for a new plan going forward. “ the document should still be important as a testament.” “This was a voice of the time,” Margo Faulk ’13 said. It needs to look a little different to be a document we’re going to preserve.” It was a brainstorm, not a full, democratic call to action. “If I were to do it all over again I’d never do it the way we did. “It wasn’t a good process, it wasn’t a good charge,” Landreman said. Associate Dean of Students Lisa Landreman agreed. Admitting to a disconnect between the personal motivations of the student committee and the institutional approach to the document’s language, Associate Dean of the IGC Karin Trail-Johnson said that the document does not reflect the views and values of the entire campus. In their most recent meeting, committee members struggled to clarify what the immediate future holds for the fate of the document and the movement they hope to create on campus.
The overall goal of the call to action was, according to the document, ”to take action informed by thoughtful analysis of the problems that we face.” The document in question outlines suggestions for measures that various departments, programs and services on campus could take to make Macalester more sustainable and improve the college’s stance on food justice.
As such, the committee has been working closely with Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC) Christy Hanson, in collaboration with President Brian Rosenberg and MCSG. “We don’t exist as a student group, per se,” said Caroline Devany ’13 in a discussion at the group’s most recent meeting, which took place this Tuesday. Referring to the document as a “Call to Action,” a committee of students who feel passionate about the theme of food justice has been working since the Roundtable to discuss its next steps and the fate of the document itself.
Immediately following this year’s International Roundtable, a group of 16 students brainstormed for four hours to draw up a document outlining suggested changes in campus food policy.
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