Summit meetings
Saturday, all of our UConn student-body Presidents got together in Hartford to discuss ideas and initiatives on their respective campuses and continue building a more unified vision for UConn student government. They’ve had several meetings already this semester, including a day-long workshop and reception on the Storrs campus on September 13, when I had a chance to meet them at a reception in the Jorgensen Gallery:
I’m excited to see our student leaders reaching out to each other, to draw on their collective strengths and experiences from our different campuses and build a better organization – and a better experience – for all of our UConn students. It’s the perfect example of synergy: “Increased effectiveness, achievement, etc., produced as a result of combined action or co-operation.” (OED) When I was a kid in Iowa taking Biology, we learned about ‘hybrid vigor,’ also called heterosis,’ the genetic phenomenon that produces an unexpected dimension of strength when two different but related strains are combined. Of course, in Iowa Biology we were talking about corn. Here in Connecticut, I suspect the subject is introduced using nutmegs as examples.
UConn vigor!
