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Originally posted by: truth4usm
"Ah, GIGO...a breath of canned air, you are.  "

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Originally posted by: truth4usm
"Ah, GIGO...a breath of canned air, you are.  "

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GIGO -- part of the reason for "garbage" speculation is how little we know because the administration hides it. The "speculation" you so scorn is the usual conversation of a village trying to understand what it knows, to put out information and hopefully, to confirm or disaffirm. Does it come with opinions? Of course -- it is hard to control a community of individuals, some of whom tend to jump to conclusions more quickly than others. That is why we share the information, in the hope that someone with more knowlege can clarify or correct.

Of course you wouldn't know about that. You wouldn't know about the exchange of letters between faculty senate and President Thames in which the President simply lies through his teeth about the availablity of information the Faculty Senate (as is its right) has requested. If you are so interested in "the truth" you should be equally interested to address the release of half truths, the distortions or the outright lies that come from Mader's office.  Most of us on the outside are less to fumble around tryingto find out the truth and if sometimes we get a little paranoid or perhaps a trifle hysterical then you'll just have to pardon us because it was the President who began this bloody little war by implying that the reason he was here was to make a lazy faculty work harder. That assumption is the foundation for every move he has made vis a vis the faculty -- to gain absolute control over it.

When he took office two years ago I remember a number of older heads shaking and saying: "he's going to go after tenure." Even I wasn't that paranoid then.

Since then we have seen one move after another aimed at weakening tenure on a number of simultaneous fronts. The loss or delimiting of tenure is absolutely the best way to put a faculty under the administration's thumb.

I'm sure this is an absolutely wasted exercise on you but perhaps there are a few other folks out there who might still be on the fence and I hope perhaps some of them might find this persuasive.

One more thing: I'll put my almost 30 years in and out of academia and of having worked and studied at seven different institutions over the course of my career against whatever else you've got against it. Those years have taught me we arne't reading tealeaves here: the signs are as clear as if they were etched by the hand of God in stone. This guy is the worst kind of autocrat: he is sincere. He believs in what he is doing. He believes he can reshape the university -- he believes he is on a mission and god help anyone who gets in the way.

That's why he doesn't need to talk to anyone outside the cabal. HE knows what is best. He doesn't need us to contribute our opinions. He doesn't need our ideas. He certainly doesn't need our criticism. He only needs the us to shut up and march in the same direction.

Southern Miss to the Top -- my eye.

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Originally posted by: Flash Gordon
"Another good thing to look at is dormitory vacancies. Last fall we had empty rooms the first week of school. Usually some students are put in motels for a week or so until things settle down. The claim of an 8% enrollment growth seemed very strange at the time. Now we know why."

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Originally posted by: Flash Gordon
" Quite possible, but some of the dorm space was being used as offices because of the construction north of the HUB. I believe the long term plan was to rotate housing out of use for renovation. What's new besides McCarty Hall?"

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