The courage of trustee Morris

This link leads to the DMN story of trustee Morris' meeting at Cedar Valley. The news reports "Ms Morris said that Dr. Lewis wouldn't authorize security for the meeting, so attendees took up a collection to raise the $350 dollars needed for two security guards from Cedar Valley College."

This is absolutely amazing. With all of the millions of dollars of campuses, administration building and police force riding around in $35,000 chevy crew cab pick up trucks, trustee Morris has to go to Cedar Valley to hold a meeting and pay for security herself.

Fast forward to Thursday when Larry Lewis spirits away a group of his yes people to Austin on a school district bus. Earlier he told trustee Morris that he did not have resources for security to support her meeting.

This of course begs the question "whose money is it and whose resources are they?"

Ordinarily I would stray away from a word like hubris. It is a little pretentious and I would use the more common, simple and direct arrogance. You have probably often heard that word in the same sentence as the words Larry Lewis. But when confronted with the actions of this man the word hubris leaps to the fore. It is arrogance taken to an unbelievable other level.

I think it is clear that standing up to the powerful and malevolent forces arrayed against her is an incredible act of courage by trustee Carolyn Morris. Thank you Ms. Morris.