<p>Our emails were mistimed…see my comments regarding Davidson and for that matter the Haverford application. Here is why this is an interesting development to our household:
- My son had choices
- He applied ED with the lesser financial package potential that can imply and forgoing other places were we are sure he would have recieved a better package.
- Central to his decision was the central place the Honor Code supposedly has in Haverford life. He has good reasons and seriously useful things he hopes to learn and apply in life from the “experience”
- We are all sophisticated enough to know that you can excise the offending clauses to gain technical “consensus” . Witness the ****e consensus we will eventually see with the Kurds or the Sunni. What is of note…like smoke signals on the horizon, is even the need to get to such an extreme position betrays the existense of a group/cause which is large enough to get the language in and “deaf” or “dumb” enough to need such a threat before retreating…such extremes do not make for a real consensus anytime soon…a patch? Yes. "I’m going to take my marbles home and stop playing " is taking hostages with/over/about something my son and others invested in…that’s worth a lot of attention in this household. Sounds like “somethings rotten in denmark” until we know more.</p>