Unacceptable Dishonesty

In separate discussions with me in May, 1999 and February, 2000, Athletic Director Greg Miller has adamantly maintained that the golf court is used as much as the squash courts.

In the February, 2000 discussion, Greg claimed he had compiled, and later discarded, member usage data that proved this.

It is obvious to anyone who frequents the area that the golf court is used considerably less than the squash courts. And it is impossible that Greg could be unaware of this.

At one point in the February, 2000 discussion, Greg turned to the staff working at the booking desk for confirmation of his position. Instead, they told him: “No, hardly anyone ever uses the golf. Maybe once a day.” Greg was unswayed, even after having the reality communicated to him by YMCA employees at the booking desk.

I have expressed this view to about 30 fellow YMCA squash players via email. No one has offered an alternate explanation or suggested that Greg was not indeed lying.

Ed Dewar’s discussions with Greg in 1997 also suggest deliberate dishonesty on Greg’s part. Ed told me that when he discussed his fifty-signature petition with Greg, he felt that Greg’s assertions contradicted plain reality.

Greg’s lies, besides having caused pointless aggravation for 50 to 100 or more dues-paying YMCA members for years, are a violation of his duties, and they are a violation of the mission on which the organization’s authenticity and credibility are based.

If the YMCA’s professions as to its values are not simple hypocrisy, the organization must feel, as I and other members do, that behavior such as that described here is unacceptable in its employees.