Put on your thinking caps people: how can we resurrect COSI and make it better than what it was?
Dial up facebook.com and see what 681 high school students are doing to resurrect COSI.
Read the January issue of Mature Living Magazine to see what the over 55 segment of the population is doing to keep COSI alive.
2008 can be a banner year for our region. Get involved and make things happen!
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Why not restore all the life and humanity and storytelling back into science and industry?
Basic physics, math, chemistry, etc. is boring, perhaps not to the easily amused.
Making something mundane, repetitious, and tiring is school's job.
The histories of science, medicine, and industries are fascinating. There's interesting characters, mistaken discoveries, buried knowledge, counter-intuitive developments. Does that guy who wants you to know the rest of the story still speak via radio waves? Maybe he was onto something.
Or make it the Center of Mad Science and Even Madder Industry.
MIT had a stop-motion photography exhibit in their museum that gave an interesting and creative perspective on water drops, bullets through apples, normal everyday things.
Or make it a Center for Social Engineering and how science and information technology are used to manipulate behavior and thoughts for both decent and indecent ends. Who wouldn't love that?
Perhaps the people in charge can take a trip to Pittsburgh, PA and check out the Carnegie Science Center
I use to love going there, even as an adult I would drive 1.5 hours up to Pittsburgh to spend the day, check out an Imax movie and the exhibits.
I think a huge amount of the problem was location. Many people don't like the hassle of downtown. Pay for parking, walking, something else going on - no parking available, distance to drive, not sure how to get there etc.. Move it somewhere that is accessible or popular for citizens. Heck use Northtowne or Levis Commons. Southwyck?
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Exactly, that's why attendance at Mud Hens games went down dramatically when they moved downtown.Navigating the big city, finding a parking spot, and walking is ___ing painful stuff. And the river probably flooded in 1908 so it's due anytime now.
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Make it compelling and fun for all ages. Change themes to off beat things like quackery/snake oil, critical looks at industry, analysis of critical events, etc.Imax is a good idea or a regular theater as well.
Closing COSI was only a PR move to whet the public's appetite for fear. A levy issue will be put upon an early-year vote, with the elites counting on the usual turnout of the Socialist crowd. They're obviously hoping the shock of closure will motivate more of the Socialists to vote, and then to vote YES. Once such a theft is enacted, it's almost impossible to put a stop to it (how many times have you heard "NOT A NEW TAX"?), hence the losers running COSI can be a part of Toledo's paycheck-collectin' corrupt population. Due to high taxation for bullshit causes, the general population will continue to flee Toledo, putting more of a squeeze upon those who remain.
Then, the time will be ripe for Kwame Kilpatrick to move to Toledo and run for mayor. You heard it here, first.
When will people learn that the common procedure to screw you out of money is this.
1-submit a levy and pull on the heart strings of the public with sob stories. Tell them that it is not a tax, but a levy to help with the rising costs of operation. (as though we're not dealing with rising costs ourselves?)
2-Once the levy passes and comes up for renewal, the focus shifts to stating that "it is not a new tax, just a renewal to ensure that we keep our (insert title here).
Low and behold, you've just been screwed. If you could time lapse a camera covering such crap you could sell it as an episode of "punked".
Don't you just love those students at Sylvania Southview? Without missing a beat, they have transformed "Saving COSI" to "Resurrecting COSI"
They don't sit around and wait for things to happen; they make things happen!
Has anyonne heard of http://www.thepoint.com? It's a cause, etc., grassroots site where people can have a place to see who'll support a cause.
I know the guy who's involved in the PR and marketing. Rather than having schools and other "cheerleaders" give COSI a rah-rah, why not see who really wants to or can support COSI -- putting their money where their mouth is. Though, didn't that effort fail already?
People can "commit" to a cause and only pay if a certain level (in money or numbers) is reached.
-Mike
Jan 23, 2008 "Monroe on a Budget" blog posting that pointed to a Jan 16, 2008 Monroe News story :
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum is offering transfers to COSI Toledo members. COSI members can take their membership cards to the Ann Arbor museum, 220 E. Ann St., or mail them toget new Ann Arbor museum family membership cards for the same time period. Anyone who adds another year can get those 12 months for half price, $37.50, officials said. For more information, call 995-5439 or visit www.aahom.org. [Two weeks ago] the Detroit Science Center announced it, too, would offer transfers to COSI members.
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Couldn't we just bulldoz it into the river and build something better in it's former place? Maybe Opal Covey's amusement park?
posted by tommy1 on Jan 02, 2008 at 03:12:51 am #