Time For Candor

John Mathias '69's recent Opinion piece mentioned only once the key issue in the Association of Alumni election -- maintenance of alumni parity on the Board of Trustees -- but what he said was interesting: "Issues of alumni governance and 'parity' should be addressed in constructive dialogue with the trustees" ("Time For Alumni Unity," May 6). There's a slight problem: Mathias also wrote that "I do not think that parity is a good idea at all" (according to a post attributed to him on the AoA blog, Nov.