The History of AI: Part 3
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Beyond the continually evolving AI technology we have come to currently know and use, there have been various forms of evolution. From mechanical automatons, to artificial brains, to chatbots. It’s evident that the new, modern generation of AI has gotten better, faster, and stronger at a very rapid and astonishing rate. Now, in 2025, we’re at a point in time in which AI has the ability to generate videos based on prompts, and create music, storylines, books, podcasts, and pieces of art that look human-made all within seconds. According to the National Institutes of Health, signals from AI systems function at almost the speed of light. This is much faster than the human brain that functions with an average speed of 120 m/s, at most.
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Beyond the continually evolving AI technology we have come to currently know and use, there have been various forms of evolution. From mechanical automatons, to artificial brains, to chatbots. It’s evident that the new, modern generation of AI has gotten better, faster, and stronger at a very rapid and astonishing rate. Now, in 2025, we’re at a point in time in which AI has the ability to generate videos based on prompts, and create music, storylines, books, podcasts, and pieces of art that look human-made all within seconds. According to the National Institutes of Health, signals from AI systems function at almost the speed of light. This is much faster than the human brain that functions with an average speed of 120 m/s, at most.
Possible Risks with Modern AI Features
With AI advancing so fast, anyone can do anything with almost no rules, and that includes misusing features such as AI generated voice memos that only require a clip of a person’s voice; or a video that only requires a photo or clip of that person. Compared to the use of voice cloning from 2019 till now, AI created voices have gotten more realistic. With these advancements, we must ask: Is it possible that we may reach a point in which voice memos can’t be easily distinguished between human and AI?
Many agree that technology that has the ability to recreate human voices and replicate human characters poses implications. As of October 2024, the success rate of voice scams has increased to 77%, leading to stolen credentials, data loss and more. The implications of AI generated video scams, which allows you to upload a video clip of someone, create an avatar of that person, and manipulate the script of that person to make that “person” say anything you want. We used to think that AI generated videos would never be able to mimic human emotions, and if so, there would be an uncanny valley feeling. But now, AI character generated videos are not only able to convey human emotions, but complex emotions now too.
character.ai
A popular app called character.ai thrives on their motto of “AI that feels alive.” The many features on this app allow users to chat with millions of AI characters including celebrities. There’s a feature that allows users to call these characters and have conversations with them for hours. Many argue that this app presents some concern, due to the risk of people gaining attachments with these AI “celebrities" rather than using this app unseriously.
Even moreso, the most popular AI chatbot on character.ai with over 170 million chats, is a character called psychologist; a character that will pretend to be your psychologist and give you real advice. While many can, and will, find this character helpful, there is no doubt that many find the existence of this feature uncanny. One question is worth considering: Does AI have the potential to create future generations that are less equipped with in-person social and communication skills?
The Next Phases of AI Evolution
There are seven stages of AI; with stage 1 being the infancy of AI, to stage 7 of the AI singularity, also known as the final stage. Currently, we are at stage 4: AI as a thinker, where most AI technology has unlocked the ability to mimic human capacity for thinking and reasoning. While it sounds crazy, it's true, AI now has the power to solve captcha tests and recently passed The Turing Test (which is actually insane!)
We’re very close to stage 5: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). “An AGI system would be capable of understanding, learning, adapting, and implementing knowledge across a broad range of tasks, just like a human. It would possess self-awareness, consciousness, and the ability to understand and navigate the world.” Imagine living in a world in which robots operate similarly to humans not only physically, but also mentally; I’d rather not!
It’s suggested that every invention after AGI will be obsolete, due to AGI being every level above human intelligence. Let’s hope we don’t go beyond stage 5, because stage 6: Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will be able to surpass human cognitive skills. ASI could mean that we can potentially be looking at a timeframe in which automation replaces human labor. As a result, this could lead to stage 7 which intensely advocates against technological growth that becomes uncontrollable and irreversible.
The Next Steps
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, has raised concern over the dangers that AI may have on society. Now, as far as AI taking over the world, I don’t think we need to look that far into it at the moment, but if the creator of AI is warning consumers about his own invention, then that may be something worth considering. Aside from AI becoming too powerful, if AI is left unchecked, it poses risks of sufficient damage and harm.
ChatGPT is the fastest-growing consumer product in history and with that being said, there must be more rules, regulations, and restrictions set in place to ensure proper and safe use of AI technology.
The History of AI: Part 2
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Beyond the multiplex ideas of robots and technology would upspring the AI that we have come to know and use today. But, before we can fully understand just how AI has improved over many decades, we must continue analyzing the groundwork that has enabled AI to develop to where it’s at now.
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Beyond the multiplex ideas of robots and technology would upspring the AI that we have come to know and use today. But, before we can fully understand just how AI has improved over many decades, we must continue analyzing the groundwork that has enabled AI to develop to where it’s at now.
The rapid growth of technological advancements in the area of AI would continue to thrive in the timeframe of the 1950’s-60’s. This period sparked creation, where scientists focused on programming languages, and when a plethora of books and movies explored deeper ideas of self-functioning robots. The concept of AI quickly became mainstream, with many inventors seeking to create the “next best thing”.
Creations in the late 1950’s-60’s:
In 1958, computer scientist John McCarthy created List Processing (LISP), the first programming language for AI research, which is still used today.
In 1961, The first industrial robot named “Unimate" started working at a General Motors in New Jersey, responsible for transporting die casings and welding parts on cars (which was said to be too dangerous for humans to do).
In 1965, Edward Feigenbaum and Joshua Lederberg created the first “Expert System” which was a form of AI designed to replicate the thinking and decision-making abilities of human experts.
The Invention of Chatbots:
If you’ve ever seen the movie Iron Man (best Avenger by the way), then you're quite familiar with Tony Stark’s AI assistant named Jarvis. Stark’s virtual personal assistant may have seemed like a fairly new idea, when in reality, the concept of chatbots began in the 1960’s. In 1966, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created the first “chatterbot” (later shortened to chatbot), ELIZA; a program that imitated a therapist. ELIZA used Natural Language Processing (NLP), and tricked users into thinking they were conversing with a human being, rather than a chatterbot. How astonished would you be to find out that your online therapist is in fact not a human being, but rather a computer system?
After ELIZA, there were other successful Bots that were made including: PARRY in 1972, RACTER in 1983 and then JABBERWACKY in 2005. All bots were created for the purpose of mimicking human interaction.
AI in the 1970’s:
The 1970’s was an era filled with similar improvements, including the world's first full-scale anthropomorphic robot, called Wabot-1; created by a Japanese professor named Ichiro Kato in 1970. This robot consisted of a limb-control system, a vision system, and a conversation system, the closest a robot could come to achieving full human function. By the late 1970’s, James L. Adams created “The Stanford Cart” which became one of the first examples of an autonomous vehicle; which eventually was able to successfully navigate a room full of chairs without human interference.
Challenges with Funding for AI:
By the mid-1960s, AI research in the United States was being funded primarily by the Department of Defense. However, by the 1970’s, the U.S. government began to show little interest in continuing to fund AI research. Fortunately, in 1979, The American Association of Artificial Intelligence which is now known as the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) was founded. This nonprofit was created to assist in advancing the development of AI, which also produced a means of funding.
Reflecting on the mid and mid-late 1900’s, it’s clear that these time periods laid the essential groundwork for AI’s significant evolution in the years that followed. There’s more to be discussed about the enthralling topic of AI, so stay tuned for part three of this AI series!
The History of AI: Part 1
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Although it may seem as if artificial intelligence (AI) is a new form of technology, it has actually been proactively developing for many decades; with the earliest groundwork dating back to the early 1900s. It’s quite compelling because learning about the history of robots, technology, and AI is important in understanding where AI is at now, and what it may be like in the future.
Gabriella Sandoval, Events Liaison and Manager
Although it may seem as if artificial intelligence (AI) is a new form of technology, it has actually been proactively developing for many decades; with the earliest groundwork dating back to the early 1900s. It’s quite compelling because learning about the history of robots, technology, and AI is important in understanding where AI is at now, and what it may be like in the future.
The History of Robots and AI
The overall idea of a machine being able to function on its own is ancient. It dates back thousands of years when inventors first made mechanical automatons (a machine that can move by itself). Among the earliest references of an automaton is of a wooden model of a pigeon constructed by a Greek friend of the philosopher Plato around 400 BCE. Many years later, one of the most famous automatons of a mechanical robotic knight would be created by Leonardo da Vinci around the late 15th century. Knowing this information allows us to better grasp the technological advancements and changes of modern day AI.
The groundwork for modern day AI concepts centered around the idea of artificial humans which came into fruition in the early 1900’s. Many expert scientists began forming curiosities as if it was possible to create an artificial brain. This brought on a new variety of different ideas.
Robot Facts
In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek released a science fiction play called Rossum's Universal Robots which introduced the idea of artificial people, which he named robots. This was the first known use of the word “robots.”
In 1929, Japanese professor Makoto Nishimura built the first Japanese robot, named Gakutensoku which included features such as changing its facial expressions and moving its head and hands.
The Early Stages of AI
By the 1950s, the idea of AI was beginning to become more realistic. Mathematician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, published his work, Computer Machinery and Intelligence which eventually became The Turing Test. It was then used by experts to measure computer intelligence. To this day, the Turing Test is still heavily renowned in the field of AI work in terms of measuring the success of current AI systems. By the mid 1950s, the term “artificial intelligence” was coined and gained popularity.
1950s Facts
In 1952, a computer scientist named Arthur Samuel developed a program to play checkers, which was the first machine to ever learn the game independently.
1955: John McCarthy held a workshop at Dartmouth on “artificial intelligence” which is the first use of the word, and how it came into popular usage.
The development of AI technology is a fascinating area of topic to be further discussed; and it truly unlocks questions about how such possible advancements can even exist. However, one thing is for certain, AI is rapidly growing with every day that passes by. Stay tuned for part two of this AI series!
Atomic Alumna: Farnaz Alimehri
By Isabella Willhite, Staff Writer
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of the worlds.”
This verse from the Bhagavad Gita were the words that Robert J. Oppenheimer uttered when watching the detonation of the atomic bomb that he created, in July of 1945.
By Isabella Willhite, Staff Writer
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of the worlds.”
This verse from the Bhagavad Gita were the words that Robert J. Oppenheimer uttered when watching the detonation of the atomic bomb that he created, in July of 1945.
There has been lots of talk about Oppenheimer after Christopher Nolan’s hit movie. Oppenheimer tells the story of the scientific advancement of the atomic bomb with motifs on allegiance, politics, and morality. It has been the highest-grossing R-movie of the year, and it is also becoming the highest-grossing WWII movie of all time.
The movie provides important context for the Atomic Age that our world entered after the development of the bomb. Today, five countries are officially recognized as possessing nuclear weapons by the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which seeks to inhibit the spread of nuclear weapons. These countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and Russia.
North Korea joined the NPT but withdrew in 2003. Pakistan, India, and Israel never joined the NPT but are assumed to possess nuclear weapons.
Over 50 countries utilize nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is incredibly efficient; a nuclear reactor typically produces one gigawatt of energy, which would require two coal plants, or three to four renewable plants. Since 1990, nuclear energy has supplied 20% of America’s power. Nuclear energy has been increasingly leveraged in developing countries for this effectiveness, low costs, and little waste.
Photo provided by Farnaz Alimehri.
Working in the space of ensuring nuclear nonproliferation is Regis alumna Farnaz Alimehri. Farnaz graduated from Regis with a BA in Politics, driven by her interests of understanding why people in power make the decisions that they do. Her favorite classes were those with Dr. Schmidt - they were so engaging that she forgot the time went by. She also enjoyed her RCC classes as they laid the foundation for her to engage with different perspectives, even those that she did not agree with. Whether it be in the space of nuclear safeguards, or just day to day life, Farnaz emphasizes the need for multiple perspectives. At Regis, Farnaz perfected her French and Spanish. She also speaks Farsi and English.
During her time at Regis, Farnaz met her best friend, Catalina Nicole Hooser, who tragically passed away. Farnaz worked closely with Dr. Nicki Gonzalez to help set-up a Scholarship in Catalina’s name to support first-generation students and students with financial barriers to attend college. To read more about the Catalina Nicole Hooser Scholarship for Dreamers, click here.
Farnaz said that if she could go back in time and give herself advice while at Regis, she would say that it is okay to not be perfect, and that it is important to not try to appease others. Even though it can be hard to recognize, you shouldn’t be a version of yourself that never existed in the first place.
After finishing at Regis, Farnaz was accepted to Georgetown’s Masters of Arts program in Security Studies. As an Iranian-American, Farnaz traveled to Iran frequently growing up. Her mom was a teenager during the Iran-Iraq war, and her community was greatly impacted by Iraq's use of chemical weapons. These experiences brought her to a concentration in unconventional weapons and nonproliferation.
At Georgetown, Farnaz worked for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). CNS is one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world that is focusing on curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction. At the time of her Master’s, Farnaz was even more drawn to these questions as Iran and the P5+1 countries began negotiations around the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA). The JPOA sought to halt Iranian nuclear development efforts in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Following her time at Georgetown, Farnaz moved to Vienna as a Training Officer for the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA). Reporting to the United Nations Security Council, the IAEA is known as the world’s center for nuclear cooperation. The IAEA assits member states in maintaining peaceful uses for nuclear technologies, developing nuclear safety standards, and verifying states are upholding their nonproliferation and arms agreements.
At the IAEA, Farnaz trained representatives from various nation states to become nuclear safeguards, inspectors, and analysts. She was “blessed for her personal and professional connections,” and learned from colleagues that had inspected Iranian and North Korean facilities. Reflecting on her time at the IAEA, Farnaz feels privileged for her connections, and for the opportunity to visit so many nuclear facilities. While based in Vienna, Farnaz also helped provide aid to Ukrainian refugees at the time of Russia’s invasion. You can read about her efforts here.
Prior to her three years with the IAEA, Farnaz worked for Argonne National Laboratories in Lamont, Illinois. There, her work focused on export controls for dual-use items, or items that have both military and civilian uses.
Farnaz is currently working with the Sandia National Laboratories, which was founded out of the original Manhattan Project. There, Farnaz has continued her work in nonproliferation as a senior member of the technical staff with Sandia’s Center for Global Security and Cooperation. She is also the Middle East and African lead for the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia. Established for almost 30 years, the CMC is using emerging technology as a site for building cooperative engagements and strengthening international security. Farnaz is currently continuing her education with a Masters of Science in Nuclear Science and Technology from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
One of the most interesting aspects of her work is tracing how state and non-state actors acquire and or build nuclear materials and technology, despite sanctions and export controls. Farnaz trained and worked with officers who seized the Chong Chon Gang ship - a vessel that was smuggling weapons components from Cuba to North Korea. Farnaz’s work is incredibly important, and incredibly tangible.
While visiting Regis in September, Farnaz discussed several important themes that have been emerging specifically in the Middle Eastern nuclear landscape. These themes included Saudi Arabia’s rescinding of its nuclear small quantities protocol to their comprehensive safeguards agreement and Iran’s enrichment processes. In Iran specifically, protests and the aging of the Supreme Leader posit important questions about the political future of the country and the future of their nuclear program. However, as she emphasizes, it remains important to distinguish the country and people of Iran from the government of Iran.
Farnaz is driven by the sacrifices her parents made when she and her family moved to the United States, giving up their community in Iran for her and her brother. Farnaz plans to continue making peaceful nuclear energy and technology accessible, and ensuring that these nuclear materials are not used for nefarious purposes.
Photo provided by Farnaz Alimehri.
Farnaz Alimehri is a published author. See some of her works below:
Finding a Future in Your Dirty Dishes
By Jesse Stewart, Staff Writer
Far rarer than oil, money, or love, time seems to be the scarcest resource of all. There never seems to be quite enough to go around, despite an abundance of machines designed to free our hands, minds, and attention. Technology helps clear our schedules more than ever before, yet we feel busier than we’ve ever been. It seems that there’s not enough hours in the day, but what if I told you that you already own an instrument that can help you slow the sands of time?
There are approximately eighty million dishwashers in the United States and, if you ask me, that’s about eighty million too many. In numerous polls, half of all Americans feel anxiety due to a perception of not having enough time in the day, despite more than 75% of all households owning a dishwasher, a machine designed for the expressed purpose of freeing up the user’s obligations to cleaning their cutlery and tableware.
By Jesse Stewart, Staff Writer
Far rarer than oil, money, or love, time seems to be the scarcest resource of all. There never seems to be quite enough to go around, despite an abundance of machines designed to free our hands, minds, and attention. Technology helps clear our schedules more than ever before, yet we feel busier than we’ve ever been. It seems that there’s not enough hours in the day, but what if I told you that you already own an instrument that can help you slow the sands of time?
There are approximately eighty million dishwashers in the United States and, if you ask me, that’s about eighty million too many. In numerous polls, half of all Americans feel anxiety due to a perception of not having enough time in the day, despite more than 75% of all households owning a dishwasher, a machine designed for the expressed purpose of freeing up the user’s obligations to cleaning their cutlery and tableware.
The Industrial Revolution promised us that machines would take over the menial duties that burdened human beings, who would then possess more time for thinking, dreaming, loving, and all of those other pesky requirements for peace of mind. But, instead, the Revolution only seemed to grant those that owned the machines more money to buy the other machines and lease them to us at steadily increasing prices. You win some, you lose some; but, until the next Revolution, you can practice liberating your schedule by taking back the ‘pointless’ burdens from the machines, and why not start with the dishwasher?
I once lived in a country where no household, no matter how wealthy or poor, owned a dishwasher. I was quite busy with my work but was forced to spend twenty minutes each day cleaning the food from my plates, knowing full well I would simply do the exact same exercise the following day. One could describe the motions of lathering a dish with soap, scrubbing it clean, and wiping it dry as ‘mindless’, but that’s only if you choose not to use your mind.
Tasseography is a fortune-telling method that involves pouring tea into a cup, draining the liquid, and reading the tea leaves on the bottom for patterns and symbolic guidance. If you see a heart, then maybe love is on the horizon but if you spot a snake then perhaps you should be prepared for betrayal. This practice is, by any metric, complete nonsense that no machine would ever be programmed for, nor would any sane human being take instruction from. However, finding inspiration or perspective in a misshapen illusion, be it the shape of a cloud or hue of a sunset, is not an exercise in delusion but imagination and vulnerability.
I’m enrolled in a university and am employed at two companies, so there exist very few grains of free time in the hourglass that hangs from me like an anchor. However, I wash my dishes thoroughly and carefully each day despite the fact that my American apartment has a perfectly functional dishwasher just beside the sink. I may spend twenty minutes a day doing this, all to the seeming-detriment of the precious unencumbered moments that I reach for otherwise. Why?
Every so often, I can look at the bubbles on my dinner plate and read into them like tea leaves. My computer instructs me to inspect an email, just as my phone orders me to open a text message, but I find that the suds on my dish often have surprising suggestions about what my time would be better spent on. Succeeding in your work often involves looking into a screen for the answers, but solutions to what ail you in life, death, and the love between are often found in the sink. Food may be required to sustain life, but cleaning its residue causes you to reflect on the consequences of your consumptions.
The human brain operates using a structure of pattern recognition. We’re all very talented when it comes to receiving and executing commands because doing so requires very little thought. However, your thoughts are not only what separate you from machines but also the only tangible resource that define you. I can trace maybe a third of all of the best ideas I’ve ever had to the thoughts that creep into my consciousness only when it is occupied with something simple.
Only the wealthy have the money to build a zen garden and the time to meditate there. Not all of us can live near some tranquil lake and guess what the clouds in its reflection are trying to tell us. But for the rest of us, no matter how busy, no matter how many projects or tests or obligations that seem to vie for our attention, can each create our own private pond in the kitchen and look into those misshapen soap clouds for inspiration. By no means would a machine ever detect a dream hidden in your dishes, but that’s because it acts without thinking, simply scrubbing away the sands of time rather than letting them accumulate into some malformed fantasy, one which only you can find the pearls of an idea inside…
…Plus, they never really wash off ALL of the barbeque sauce on your plate, you know? Gross.
EDITORIAL: Low Tech Solutions to High Tech Problems
For the students of Regis University, the Fall 2019 cyber attack remains a present reality. I’m sure many of us remember the delayed and disorganized classes due to complications caused by the breach. We went many weeks with our homework systems disabled entirely or in disarray. Personally, I hoped to be sympathetic and forgiving given this was an attack and Regis was the victim, but, this previous semester left a bad taste in my mouth….
By Garrett Kelly, Staff Writer
For the students of Regis University, the Fall 2019 cyber attack remains a present reality. I’m sure many of us remember the delayed and disorganized classes due to complications caused by the breach. We went many weeks with our homework systems disabled entirely or in disarray. Personally, I hoped to be sympathetic and forgiving given this was an attack and Regis was the victim, but, this previous semester left a bad taste in my mouth. Regis Updates is still an active page since the cyber attack, with the most recent post at the time of this article’s publication Feb. 3, 2020. Despite this site, updates since the attack have not been timely, instructive or even relevant to student life. Nowhere on this page is it mentioned how Regis University has chosen to respond to the crisis. As one avidly interested in such a thing, I followed the page closely. You might imagine my surprise when I was directed by one of my Highlander colleagues to an article from the Denver Post detailing that the university did in fact pay out the ransom requested by those that took the school hostage. Key details, relevant to our ability to function as members of this community remain undisclosed. What we’ve seen is a consistent pattern of non-communication to this university’s most important stakeholders--faculty and students. The Denver Post’s Jan. 28 article claims correctly that it was the first to report that Regis did in fact pay out the “malicious actors”, a revelation that took place six months after the event. Other “revelations” remain waiting in the wings.
The comments on the Denver Post article are even more interesting given the context. One user under the moniker Cloud claimed to be among the contractors hired to restore antivirus systems at the university. He wrote, “It was a mess. Everything was down.” Various others left probing questions as to how it could be possible that such an attack could disable our systems for such a length of time. In truth, even colloquially, I’m aware that the lack of backup built into the school’s servers represents another case in a series of internal security flaws that allowed us to be put in such a position. I wish I could write this in anger, but I can’t. To describe it as such would be a dishonest expression. More than anything, this experience has left me frustrated. It shocks me that the first report of Regis’ official decisions regarding this monumental event come only in the form of the Post article that I happened to be pointed towards.
After all this, Regis postures itself to host a cyber security summit, in the name of sharing what they’ve learned with others who are potentially vulnerable. For this, I want to applaud them. This summit has the promise to shed more light onto the events that paved the way for the events experienced in the fall semester. It should also address how to respond when such attacks are successful and disabling. Frankly, the first to know should have been us; the faculty and students of Regis who have a vested interest. That we’d only be informed indirectly a week after the fact bothered me deeply. Six months later, Regis’s updates remain ambiguous. Websites remain filled with dead links to disabled systems. But Regis Updates remains unchanged and I am doubtful that my peers know the latest news of what decisions the institution has made, and the impact those decisions will have on our path to education.
The silence present here is deafening in a way that breeds the worst kind of anxiety for college students. With the obvious financial and administrative turmoil at Regis, silence only inspires more doubt and fear of instability. I fear the further limitation of already slim programs. I fear for the professors, already overworked amongst a hiring freeze that could face an even greater workload in the near future. My priority is that of the quality of my education, something that the passionate teaching staff of Regis University has provided time and time again. But I’m not blind to what they’re facing here, all that challenges us with the recent technical challenges affect them twofold. I certainly don’t want my professors to be forced to take on greater responsibility while they’re already amongst the busiest in the country.
Much of the strength of Regis, in my observation, is that of the small class sizes and passionate teaching. As this crisis continues with little information and minimal communication, it is clear to see the strain it places on those who work so hard to provide a quality educational experience. This lack of communication undercuts the spirit of community, collaboration and our fundamental Jesuit values. The standard of communication during this crisis has fallen short of any reasonable expectation. It’s easy to assume that the communication received by the professors here is the same as that we have received--vague and unhelpful. As Regis continues to return to old refrains, discussing the building of community the lesson becomes solidified, all of us, the student population, will remain the last to know anything. We remain in the dark, unsure and unclear as to the path ahead, and our place on the road.
The answer to high tech problems is a low tech one. Trust. Communication. Community in more than name. This could have been a learning experience for all of us, but instead it’s been a fracture of trust.