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- From: waltoml@wkuvx1.bitnet
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: RE: Rec.Scouting change
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.060130.4133@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:01:30 CST
- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
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- While I am new to the Rec. Scouting fold, I find it pretty
- interesting to see the listing wanting to split.
-
- If you think that this split will result in getting "undesirable"
- topics off of the activities or policies screens, think again.
-
- Scouting in the USA is at a crossroads. In a few short weeks, we will
- have a new Chief Scout Executive. Later on, the nation will have a
- new President. Later on still, we will see Scouting again in action
- at the 1993 National Scout Jamboree. We are seeing our programs grow
- in diversity and yet we are trying, some of you say with all of our
- might, to hold onto the values that made Scouting what it has been for
- the past 83 years.
-
- I have a sticker that was given out back when we went through our
- "growing pains" in the middle 80s...you may have seen it. It states
- that "America is returning to the values that Scouting never left".
- We may be. On the other hand, we have many issues that face us as a
- nation and many more that we have to confront our youth with as the
- years go outward.
-
- For what its worth, each comment is made by a person. Each person
- took the time to think, sometimes with short fuse, other times with
- much personal reflection, to type and to send their thoughts to be
- shared. By diffusing the channels in which those thoughts will travel
- through the splitting of the list will do several things to those
- thoughts. First, it will make those of us that are interested in ALL
- aspects of Scouting, to suscribe to two more lists. Second, it will
- make cross-postings to all three lists a neccessity rather than a
- luxury, since you cannot talk program without talking about
- administration or policy. You cannot talk policy without it impacting
- upon the programs of the Scouting program. Third, and the most
- critical of them all, it places us all into a decision-making mode as
- to what is most important: the person or the comment.
-
- I feel that this list should continue as ONE LISTING, so that everyone
- concerned with all aspects of the movement can talk about various
- issues, techniques, ideas and gripes in an open forum.
-
- The first time I read Rec. Scouting, someone was looking for a script
- for a Eagle Scout Court of Honor. This was sandwiched in between the
- ongoing discussion of lesbigays in Scouting and various court cases
- defending/against the BSA's stand of religion in the lives of its
- youth and adult members. Yet, I did not have to comment or even read
- each comment....just went to the one that I wanted, extracted it,
- replied to the person and left the list and went on my business.
-
- We do not have to be buried into arguments or discussions we don't
- wish to. While finding questions and answers would be easier on a
- list composed of all "actitivies" or all "policies", we would find
- ourselves transposing what is found on the other list onto ours.
-
- Leave it be. I will vote NO.
-
- Settummanque!
-
- Mike Walton
- Greenwood, Kentucky
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