Excerpts from the Save The Rose Facebook group
As of 1:35 this afternoon, the Rose's Board of Overseers still thought the museum was to be closed, and the art sold. See: http://www.brandeis.edu/rose/boostatmentroseclosing2509.pdf
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There is A LOT still to be figured out. There are A LOT of messages to the press, etc. that have to be re-tracted in full. The president did screw up, an royally so. There is so much contradiction between his first statement, the followp-up statements from the communications team and the provost that all show what the original talking points were. What you read today is mostly something written by the pr team. What the president said to the student press was so disjointed, one would have to listen again and again, and see a full transcript to understand it all.
Until there is a full and comprehensive statement from the Board of Trustees of the university, a complementary and comprehensive statement from the Board of Overseers of the Rose, and a complementary and comprehensive statement from Michael Rush, I personally would not place any faith in a statement from the president or his team.
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Steve Miller: (www.stevemiller.com)
If in any business in America, you contemplated anything, possibly
unethical, that generated vast amounts of bad publicity for your brand
name, you would be fired in two seconds. It wouldn't matter how many
good deeds you did in your past, the present debacle would mitigate your
demise. The best way for Brandeis to end this controversy would be for
Mr Reinharz to resign and convene a new board to assess the damage and
come up with another plan.
The Reinharz apology was a unique concept regarding the notion of an
"apology." I've listened to the press conference two times and that's
120 minutes of ambiguity. After he “apologizes” he tries to lay the
blame on the press for faulty reporting, yet much of the information in
the media came from either interviews directly with Reinharz or his own
press release. Now, while he lays off faculty, he hires a PR firm which
is just spending more needed financial resources. He could have cleaned
up this mess up from day one. He doesn’t need a PR firm. He needs to
clearly state his intentions regarding the Rose. Furthermore, who is
going to ever give money or art to the Rose or Brandeis with this
massive breach of trust? He is still saying he is wants to sell the Rose
collection (the most valuable paintings). That’s the mistake that caused
the resounding backlash in the first place. A traditional apology means;
admit your mistake and don’t repeat the same mistake again. It's a huge
mistake and a great loss to close the Rose Art Museum, let alone, sell
any part of the art collection.
What Brandeis is really selling is their reputation.
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As of 1:35 this afternoon, the Rose's Board of Overseers still thought the museum was to be closed, and the art sold. See: http://www.brandeis.edu/ro
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There is A LOT still to be figured out. There are A LOT of messages to the press, etc. that have to be re-tracted in full. The president did screw up, an royally so. There is so much contradiction between his first statement, the followp-up statements from the communications team and the provost that all show what the original talking points were. What you read today is mostly something written by the pr team. What the president said to the student press was so disjointed, one would have to listen again and again, and see a full transcript to understand it all.
Until there is a full and comprehensive statement from the Board of Trustees of the university, a complementary and comprehensive statement from the Board of Overseers of the Rose, and a complementary and comprehensive statement from Michael Rush, I personally would not place any faith in a statement from the president or his team.
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Steve Miller: (www.stevemiller.com)
If in any business in America, you contemplated anything, possibly
unethical, that generated vast amounts of bad publicity for your brand
name, you would be fired in two seconds. It wouldn't matter how many
good deeds you did in your past, the present debacle would mitigate your
demise. The best way for Brandeis to end this controversy would be for
Mr Reinharz to resign and convene a new board to assess the damage and
come up with another plan.
The Reinharz apology was a unique concept regarding the notion of an
"apology." I've listened to the press conference two times and that's
120 minutes of ambiguity. After he “apologizes” he tries to lay the
blame on the press for faulty reporting, yet much of the information in
the media came from either interviews directly with Reinharz or his own
press release. Now, while he lays off faculty, he hires a PR firm which
is just spending more needed financial resources. He could have cleaned
up this mess up from day one. He doesn’t need a PR firm. He needs to
clearly state his intentions regarding the Rose. Furthermore, who is
going to ever give money or art to the Rose or Brandeis with this
massive breach of trust? He is still saying he is wants to sell the Rose
collection (the most valuable paintings). That’s the mistake that caused
the resounding backlash in the first place. A traditional apology means;
admit your mistake and don’t repeat the same mistake again. It's a huge
mistake and a great loss to close the Rose Art Museum, let alone, sell
any part of the art collection.
What Brandeis is really selling is their reputation.
CA$H
CA$H
C$$H
C$$H
$$$H
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