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Post by sader1970 on May 8, 2024 8:03:26 GMT -5
Ehh, this is starting to veer off what I was trying to avoid and just wanted confirmation that there would be no interruption of Holy Cross' graduation ceremonies. Before the Dean "caps" this thread, since I was the author, I will try to put my thoughts on the broader subject . . . . . and then will seriously consider going back on hiatus. IMHO: 1. Hamas is a genuine terrorist organization and no need to look any further than what they did on 10/7 (we should not confuse Hamas with the broader Palestinian/Gazan people) 2. Israel has every right, in fact a duty, to protect its citizens and that means going after Hamas so that they never do this again 3. The Israeli government made obvious errors in judgement to have been able to prevent or mitigate the attack of 10/7 4. The Israeli government, not the Israeli people, is responsible for the slaughter of too many innocent Gazans with women and children being the greatest victims. Simply too many have been killed to be just "collateral damage." 5. Just as there were so many innocent Israeli victims on 10/7, there are many times more innocent Gazans killed by the IDF 6. Being against the Israeli government actions is NOT being anti-semitic. We should not conflate the two, 7. As much as people believe that because the USA is a strong ally with Israel that the US government can wave a magic wand and make Israel take actions or stop actions, we cannot. At best, we can try to influence what they do and that's what our government has been trying to do. 8. In that vein, yes, the hostages should be released immediately but we are neither holding the hostages nor have direct control of either party to the conflict. We cannot force a cease fire either because even if we convince Israel, we have little influence over Hamas. Two to tango. 9. Kudos to our government for withholding some offensive weapons that were to go to Israel. It might give the IDF some pause before a full scale attack on the last Gazan sanctuary area. 10. Maybe most importantly: THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANTI-SEMITISM. As for college campuses, being a student of the late 60's, many of us have seen, maybe participated in, college protests. Free speech on colleges should be encouraged. Violence, threats of violence and interfering with the free speech (not hate speech) and free passage of others should not be tolerated. Looking forward to HC graduation 2024!
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 8, 2024 8:23:15 GMT -5
Ehh, this is starting to veer off what I was trying to avoid and just wanted confirmation that there would be no interruption of Holy Cross' graduation ceremonies.
Before the Dean "caps" this thread, since I was the author, I will try to put my thoughts on the broader subject . . . . . and then will seriously consider going back on hiatus. IMHO: 1. Hamas is a genuine terrorist organization and no need to look any further than what they did on 10/7 (we should not confuse Hamas with the broader Palestinian/Gazan people) 2. Israel has every right, in fact a duty, to protect its citizens and that means going after Hamas so that they never do this again 3. The Israeli government made obvious errors in judgement to have been able to prevent or mitigate the attack of 10/7 4. The Israeli government, not the Israeli people, is responsible for the slaughter of too many innocent Gazans with women and children being the greatest victims. Simply too many have been killed to be just "collateral damage." 5. Just as there were so many innocent Israeli victims on 10/7, there are many times more innocent Gazans killed by the IDF 6. Being against the Israeli government actions is NOT being anti-semitic. We should not conflate the two, 7. As much as people believe that because the USA is a strong ally with Israel that the US government can wave a magic wand and make Israel take actions or stop actions, we cannot. At best, we can try to influence what they do and that's what our government has been trying to do. 8. In that vein, yes, the hostages should be released immediately but we are neither holding the hostages nor have direct control of either party to the conflict. We cannot force a cease fire either because even if we convince Israel, we have little influence over Hamas. Two to tango. 9. Kudos to our government for withholding some offensive weapons that were to go to Israel. It might give the IDF some pause before a full scale attack on the last Gazan sanctuary area. 10. Maybe most importantly: THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ANTI-SEMITISM. As for college campuses, being a student of the late 60's, many of us have seen, maybe participated in, college protests. Free speech on colleges should be encouraged. Violence, threats of violence and interfering with the free speech (not hate speech) and free passage of others should not be tolerated. Looking forward to HC graduation 2024! Did you really think this thread was going to stay exclusively focused on HC graduation ceremonies?
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Post by sader1970 on May 8, 2024 8:30:12 GMT -5
A "child" of the 60's . . . . . very idealistic still, in some very small ways.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 13, 2024 12:08:19 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on May 13, 2024 16:46:23 GMT -5
One way to handle this would be to ask families to file out after their grad had walked across the stage to let other families in alphabetically.
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Post by sader1970 on May 13, 2024 19:53:56 GMT -5
No worries for Holy Cross! The DCU should have plenty of room.
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Post by mm67 on May 13, 2024 21:53:54 GMT -5
DCU? I plead ignorance. What is the actual name?
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Post by lou on May 13, 2024 21:56:48 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on May 13, 2024 23:37:43 GMT -5
DCU? I plead ignorance. What is the actual name? DCU stands for Digital Credit Union. digital equipment company (they didn't capitalize their name as I recall) is long gone but the credit union is still going strong.
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Post by mm67 on May 14, 2024 7:21:49 GMT -5
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Post by mm67 on May 14, 2024 7:22:13 GMT -5
DCU? I plead ignorance. What is the actual name? DCU stands for Digital Credit Union. digital equipment company (they didn't capitalize their name as I recall) is long gone but the credit union is still going strong. Thank you.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on May 14, 2024 7:43:41 GMT -5
DCU? I plead ignorance. What is the actual name? DCU stands for Digital Credit Union. digital equipment company (they didn't capitalize their name as I recall) is long gone but the credit union is still going strong. Lots of folks around these parts worked for "DEC" (pronounced Deck)
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Post by longsuffering on May 14, 2024 7:52:30 GMT -5
DCU stands for Digital Credit Union. digital equipment company (they didn't capitalize their name as I recall) is long gone but the credit union is still going strong. Lots of folks around these parts worked for "DEC" (pronounced Deck) They sometimes called themselves "digits."
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Post by CHC8485 on May 14, 2024 12:28:55 GMT -5
I worked for Digital for 11 years in the late 80’s until Intel acquired the semiconductor business in May 1998. 8 months later Intel laid off more than half the manufacturing workforce including me. I still do the majority of my banking at DCU. i was and am not so passionate about working at Digital as some, but it was a good place to work. Digital Equipment Corporation most certainly capitalized the company name, but the company logo was all lower case. Here’s the original blue logo that was changed to a maroon color with other slight tweaks in the mid 1990s
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Post by Tom on May 15, 2024 8:16:41 GMT -5
DCU? I plead ignorance. What is the actual name? Worcester built a civic center in the early 80's named the Centrum. Some years ago, the Digital Federal Credit Union purchased naming rights and the building is frequently called the DCU Center. I think it rolls off the tongue better than DFCU Center.
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Post by HC13 on May 15, 2024 8:47:06 GMT -5
I believe DCU recently extended their naming rights for 3 more years for $1.8 million
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Post by longsuffering on May 15, 2024 12:58:39 GMT -5
Somewhat interesting for a Credit Union, which is not for-profit unlike Dunkin Donuts or Polar Beverages.
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Post by sader1970 on May 15, 2024 13:19:19 GMT -5
You may or may not know that "The Dunk" is now the Amica Mutual Pavilion ("AMP") as that venerable insurance company headed by Holy Cross' own Ted Shallcross took over the naming rights. Having worked for decades with a national mutual insurance company, the perspective is a little different than stock company insurers in that the goal is not to make money for their stockholders but rather keep expenses low and resultant lower premiums for their policyholders who are the owners of the company.
In Columbus, OH, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company built the Nationwide Arena across the street from its home office and where we played an NCAA playoff game.
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Post by longsuffering on May 15, 2024 23:28:57 GMT -5
You may or may not know that "The Dunk" is now the Amica Mutual Pavilion ("AMP") as that venerable insurance company headed by Holy Cross' own Ted Shallcross took over the naming rights. Having worked for decades with a national mutual insurance company, the perspective is a little different than stock company insurers in that the goal is not to make money for their stockholders but rather keep expenses low and resultant lower premiums for their policyholders who are the owners of unions etc., don't squawk at the millions of their money spent on naming rights but I guess top executives at those entities like to win the announcement press conference like ADs at HC do when a new coach is unveiled.
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Post by Tom on May 16, 2024 7:57:23 GMT -5
You may or may not know that "The Dunk" is now the Amica Mutual Pavilion ("AMP") as that venerable insurance company headed by Holy Cross' own Ted Shallcross took over the naming rights. Having worked for decades with a national mutual insurance company, the perspective is a little different than stock company insurers in that the goal is not to make money for their stockholders but rather keep expenses low and resultant lower premiums for their policyholders who are the owners of the company. In Columbus, OH, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company built the Nationwide Arena across the street from its home office and where we played an NCAA playoff game. I understand wanting the extra money, but I am not a fan of all this name changing. Up in Manchester NH, the civic center was never the Manchester Civic Center. It was the Verizon Center. Fine. That's the building's name. Stick with it (BTW it is now the SNHU Arena - speaking of strange naming rights) Providence Civic Center => Dunkin Donuts Center=> Amica Mutual Pavillion is getting a bit silly. By the way, Great Woods/Tweeter/Comcast/Xfinity Center must be due for a name change soon
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Post by alum on May 16, 2024 8:55:09 GMT -5
You may or may not know that "The Dunk" is now the Amica Mutual Pavilion ("AMP") as that venerable insurance company headed by Holy Cross' own Ted Shallcross took over the naming rights. Having worked for decades with a national mutual insurance company, the perspective is a little different than stock company insurers in that the goal is not to make money for their stockholders but rather keep expenses low and resultant lower premiums for their policyholders who are the owners of the company. In Columbus, OH, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company built the Nationwide Arena across the street from its home office and where we played an NCAA playoff game. I understand wanting the extra money, but I am not a fan of all this name changing. Up in Manchester NH, the civic center was never the Manchester Civic Center. It was the Verizon Center. Fine. That's the building's name. Stick with it ( BTW it is now the SNHU Arena - speaking of strange naming rights) Providence Civic Center => Dunkin Donuts Center=> Amica Mutual Pavillion is getting a bit silly. By the way, Great Woods/Tweeter/Comcast/Xfinity Center must be due for a name change soon Given the number of SNHU televsion commercials I see, I think that naming rights to an arena is a drop in the bucket of their advertising budget.
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