COD Board holdovers' false, specious charges must be addressed

The three COD Board holdovers who essentially and irresponsibly shut down governance at COD by boycotting last night's meeting are fond of blaming COD's entire woes on the three new members that took control in April with their organizer Kathy Hamilton, the sole Board member who exposed the Breuder Board malfeasance. Now that the Higher Learning Commission has placed COD on 2 years probation, blaming the entire action on the Bob Breuder administration and the old Board (including the 3 holdovers, minus Hamilton) one might expect the Boycott Three to look in the mirror to determine the source of this extraordinary punitive crisis facing COD. Sadly, they are redoubling their charges of new Board members' responsibility and throwing in COD Faculty Association president Glenn Hanson as well. They are promoting this deceitfulness on a rogue Facebook page filled with baseless, personal attacks against any and all who incur their wraith.

They are free to continue these false, specious changes till their terms are up or they are removed from the Board for malfeasance. But the Boycott Three (Erin Birt, Joe Wozniak and Dianne McGuire) blaming the new majority for COD going on Double Secret Probation is akin to President Nixon blaming the House Select Watergate Committee for the Watergate break-in.