[Harp-L] Re: SPAH Election - An Observation

["Steve Power" <stevepower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it just me or is this SPAH election starting to look/sound like a bunch 
of folks running for some government office?

I'm seeing "message" statements along the lines of "throw out the 
insiders","change and hope", "croonyism", "We're great and they suck."

 My experience of various such organizations and soicieties is that they 
quickly become clique-ish, with all the various cliques accusing all the 
other cliques of being clique-ish while promoting their own non-existent 
inclusivness.

I'm not a member of SPAH. I kind of thought about it and of attending this 
years conference, but nah. Too much monkey business for me to get involved 
in.