Today, October 17, 2009 is a sad day for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences UNPSJB.
As we know, was to take place the third session of the Board to elect the dean and the dean. On this occasion, after two sessions, a simple majority was enough to win a nomination.
What is perhaps not so well known is that the vote of the directors is secret, something that, if it serves to protect the freedom of the representative-voter may also be useful to circumvent the relationship of trust between the agent and the represented.
After 9 election September, the absence of any list which enjoyed its own majority, won the dialogue to agree on projects and applications, something that normally happens in polling systems, such as the UNPSJB. In this process of discussion, the different groups defined affinities, adjusted proposals and agreed on strategies, which was a regrouping of political actors. Thus, when he began the first session of this council, on Thursday 15, there were two distinct sectors: one, consisting of lists Integration and Patagonia, Comodoro, promoted the candidacy Coicaud Claudia Dean, the other consisting of lists New Space Patagonia, Trelew, FUICH-UETDF and La Marea + UFE and based on a proposal to work in common to create change within our power, promoted the candidacy of Luis Sandoval. The first sector initially had 5 representatives, voters, and the second with 7.
The picture was very predictable and the election process should proceed smoothly, beyond what the final outcome. However, while waiting for the start of this third meeting, the election climate began to "rarefied." Other aspects of the situation, we saw a group composed of students and teachers presumably by the Department of Political Science with Fabrizio Felicetti (director of municipal government security Comodoro Rivadavia), surrounded at all times to a student counselor, perhaps to induce a directed way to vote, by pressure, separating at all times of their group mates.
Given this apparent lack of minimum guarantees for a reasoned and serious debate, and the free exercise of election of each director, representatives of the undersigned groups, which coincide in the diagnosis of the situation, as well as a School project to come and change this state of affairs, decided to leave the meeting. The aim of this decision is that of making a call for sanity prime and respect, and to ensure a democratic framework serious and mature discussion, free from pressures, so we can decide what paths to follow, people and projects to be Faculty conduct the necessary consensus-building and institutional policies.
Who concocted this crude maneuver are the same as outrageous lies circulated, we will not repeat, but we are compelled to refute.
1. On the relationship between students and teachers. The project will integrate political and academic co-government understood as a relationship of respect and equality among people who occupy institutional roles different (students, not teachers, assistants, teachers or graduate) but enjoy autonomy and freedom, maturity and responsibility. Perhaps others pretend that the relationship between teachers and students is a relationship of obedience and submission and well built (or trying to) their relationship both in the classroom and in other areas of participation, but we consider this relationship as an egalitarian practice, where there are differences and similarities, from which it is possible to build common goals and proposals. Those who understand that the equal relationship between teachers and students is necessarily disadvantageous for the latter's dignity remains underestimate them (such time in an effort to retain "faculty privileges"), also showing a profound ignorance of the real capacity of our students.
is true that when a teacher brings to bear power differential position on a subject that is not generally a student of the Faculty, a student directly but must be submitted for evaluation by him, then without doubt we are facing an abuse of power, immoral and illegal. And this is the case we're just reporting.
2. On the meaning of the relationship of representation. The groups of teachers and students agree this project we have favored a construction method collective and democratic over autocratic leadership or personal projects, grounded in the logic of "push" and client relations, as has happened so far and threatens to continue happening. Against this we understand that, in the tradition of our representative institutions, the representative has the autonomy to define their preferences, but that autonomy is not equivalent to a buoyancy asocial devoid of any relationship. We are convinced that the decisions of the representative must be a consequence of his convictions but also formed in dialogue with their constituencies. Advocates of indifference and insensitivity of the representative, the lack of any relationship with represented, can only be encouraging corrupt and decadent. The recent history of our country should teach us something. Met
form an alternative group with a different way of doing politics in the sayings and deeds (as proven in practice many of the actors that comprise it), which rejects the patronage and pressure mechanisms for captive votes and support , subsuming the academic criteria of power relations more stark. Those trying to award this mode are that historically implemented in our Faculty, even arrogantly presented as democratic in his speeches. This joint election is no exception.
We have noted with great concern that this conflict was used to feed false ghosts and put into play stigma towards those who think differently. Some has not cared to pursue their objectives smear the name and path of many shooting throwing lies and fabrications. We know that this is no accident: the fear is one of the weapons of choice for those in positions entrench reactionary or simply conservative. On the other hand, the sad logic of lying for something is, is always the initial condition of legitimacy that starts any kind of persecution and harassment.
have a point: groups that build this project does not possess an ideology or aseptic safe, because we are committed to building a University more scientific, democratic and committed to the communities of our region of Patagonia, and retaining its autonomy from the pressure groups of economic and political power shift that aspire to subordinate their interests.
Because we still have pain, because only take away the freedoms that we lack.
October 17, 2009.
Signed: New Space
Patagonia (Trelew)
FUICH-UETDF
La Marea+UFE
Adhiere:
Mutatis Mutandi
