By Christy Boardman

Friends, Alabamians, Countrymen (better than plainsmen), lend me your eyes.

I come to address concerns, not to bury them;

The good that HCA does grows as HCA grows,

The success of HCA is rooted in its bones,

So let HCA continue to thrive… The noble Vaughn

Hath told you HCA “could … intrude on … other organizations.”

If it is so, why has HCA partnered with many varying organizations?

And happily did these organizations and HCA join forces…

Here, under leave of Vaughn and the CW

(For Vaughn is a knowledgeable man;

So are they all; all knowledgeable men)

Come I to rebut Vaughn’s article

HCA members have become my friends, faithful and just to me:

But Vaughn says HCA “has the appearance of exclusiveness”

And Vaughn is a knowledgeable man…

HCA hath brought over 400 students home to the Honors College

Whose schedules did HCA fill.

Did this in HCA seem exclusive?

When disillusioned students cry, HCA offers new involvement opportunities:

Exclusiveness should be made of more exclusive stuff.

Yet Vaughn says HCA seems exclusive;

And Vaughn is a knowledgeable man.

You all may have seen that in block seating

HCA has never turned a student away,

And HCA gives students an avenue to accomplish all they please:

Can this be perceived as exclusion?

Yet Vaughn says HCA has “no definite path;”

And, sure, he is a knowledgeable man.

I speak not to discourage criticism, such as what Vaughn wrote,

But here I am to encourage criticism and questions.

This University needs more questioning, not without cause:

What cause does not deserve questioning?

From established University traditions to new ideas,

All need to be founded on reason… Bear with me,

My heart is tied to this University,

And we should all pause and not follow blindly.