Pub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.14361/9783839448021-002
A. Sant
SO, SHE'S A RISK TAKER. THE DINERS AT THE TABLE IN THE restaurant were being casually divided by a friend of mine into those who take risks and those who prefer not to. A stark but even division, surprising perhaps because, remarkably, we had all chosen the same main dish: fish. She'd decided I too was among the risk takers. There was no probing diagnosis, no sense that one category might be better than the other. It was simply that, the subject of risk having cropped up in the conversation - I forget exactly why - -my friend decided to declare her opinions. I imagine each of us briefly considered if we agreed with her, whether we said so or not.No doubt the others also wondered what evidence she had so quickly taken into account before the matter lapsed, as wine glasses were replenished, and the conversation rushed on happily elsewhere. If it hadn't - and it's probably a good thing it did - I might have asked her what sorts of acts did she consider to be risky, forgetting for the moment that risk might be implicated fundamentally in the trajectory of any individual life. She would, I am sure, not have bothered mentioning obvious cases such as tight-rope walking, lion taming and sky diving - those acts that thrill crowds unified by their collective safety. Nor, perhaps, unprotected sex. I don't think, given the civilian company assembled around the table, she would have mentioned situations in war zones or, in that comfortable restaurant, hero-explorers. Violent crime, either.I don't know what she would have said but will risk it and say it's likely the acts which she was then considering to be risky - what might have passed through her mind when she divided us - are those taken by people whom she deemed to be leading unworldly lives, any dabbling in risky assets such as shares hidden from view. She was, I guess, mainly thinking of the risks associated with leading the potentially penurious life of an artist or writer - a solo flight through space and time. It was not an expensive restaurant - nor, for that matter, was it particularly cheap.Does a big decision, seen by others as being very risky, necessarily feel risky to an individual when, for internal or external reasons, it has to be taken? I'm thinking of a necessary decision with desired but no guaranteed consequences, including pure satisfaction, that one way or another will seriously affect the course of a life. Deterministically, it may seem. A person driven to be an artist, rather than some occupation financially and socially safer, may not see the risks others do. The risk might be in not pursuing the drive. On a daily basis it's nice to think we can choose to take risks, not have them forced upon us. My categorizing friend is a painter and would, I assume, judge herself to be a risk taker each time she chooses to enter her studio, acts set in motion long ago when, in a safe but now abandoned occupation, she realized she could not risk do otherwise than pursue her real vocation, financ
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Hussey, P. Cherry, S. Leger, P. Martin, I. Macinnis, P. O'Malley, K. Parsons, E. Spiekman, P. Walters, S. Woo, M. Charbonneau
Absentee or proxy votes may be counted in determining the outcome of motions to the faculty. However, to be counted, an absentee or proxy ballot must be in written form, signed by the absentee voter (unsigned email is specifically disallowed) and in favor either of accepting or rejecting a specific, written motion presented to the faculty or to accept or reject a motion from a faculty committee as originally presented to the faculty.
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