I was riveted by the announcement in "Around Town Hall" (Bulletin, Jan. 15) that a new town team, the Emergency Management Team, is being formed. The team will concern itself with "planning for the Y2K as well as other emergencies."...The team consists of seven white middle-aged home owners drawn from the upper echelons of town departments, primarily hardware intensive departments like Fire, Police, Maintenance and Public Works. There's no one from the university on the team and no planners.
There are also no old people, no poor people, no people in wheelchairs, no people in business, no black people, no Hispanics, no Cambodians, no students, no tenants, no landlords, no clergymen, and no women. No mothers, no teachers, no nurses. Not even Amherst's talented finance director, Nancy Maglione....
[Ed.: At least they're doing something about this terrible crisis. In Kenya, the official government committee investigating the Y2K problem is scheduled to release its report in April, 2000.]
