Just curious if there have been any developments regarding the Faculty Senate's plans for its meeting Friday. There was mention of a call for Thames to resign--is this going to happen? Will there be an opportunity for it to be ratified by the faculty as a whole? Are there other substantive actions planned? I'm afraid the quarter business seems silly to me. I agree with the sentiment (no mercy), but the metaphor (or whatever it is) doesn't work very well when you're talking about dropping quarters at graduation (that would be giving quarter, not giving NO quarter). Still, I recognize that everyone here seems to love it. I do like the Night Chalker and would like to see additional modes of mockery and civil disobedience delivered to our beloved president and his disgusting rat council. Little Wafflenose apparently hates to be mocked. But mostly what I want to see is serious collective action against the Thames administration, weekly votes of no confidence, weekly requests for his resignation and the resignations of all his little pals in the dome (and not in the dome). Any law suits that might be brought against him or his administration of this university. Any revelations that could by uncovered or widely distributed. Any internal paperwork that any decent individual stuck inside this nightmarish administration might be able to leak to the FS board or any responsible faculty or staff member not directly in harm's way. We must aggressively pursue the Thames resignation else Professors Stringer and Glamser's heroic effort will be for nothing. Let's have some ideas, some initiatives. Let's get done what has to be done. This school is going to be a paint store before long if we do not.
Faculty Senates are usually unimaginative about resolutions of no confidence, assuming that they pertain only to presidents.
In fact, a Faculty Senate (or other faculty body) can vote no confidence in any administrator.
So I would recommend just starting with Thames (to show how wrong Klumb was) and then proceeding, meeting by meeting, with resolutions of no confidence in each of Thames henchcrew--until they are all gone.
One that should be gotten to early: a resolution of no confidence in the presidential (er, university) spokesflack.
And, of course, leaking every nasty memo from Thames and henchcrew is important.
quote: Originally posted by: Robert Campbell "Dobro, To amplify one of your suggestions: Faculty Senates are usually unimaginative about resolutions of no confidence, assuming that they pertain only to presidents. In fact, a Faculty Senate (or other faculty body) can vote no confidence in any administrator. So I would recommend just starting with Thames (to show how wrong Klumb was) and then proceeding, meeting by meeting, with resolutions of no confidence in each of Thames henchcrew--until they are all gone. One that should be gotten to early: a resolution of no confidence in the presidential (er, university) spokesflack. And, of course, leaking every nasty memo from Thames and henchcrew is important. Robert Campbell"