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Friday, May 04, 2007
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Naturally, UD Could Do... ...without the cliche sweeping change, but otherwise, there's some powerful language in a recent letter from the faculty of Ohio University to its board of trustees (as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education): Senior faculty members at Ohio University have presented administrators with a laundry list of complaints about declining academic standards at the university, the administration’s handling of the budget, and negative publicity arising out of a series of computer-security breaches, a plagiarism scandal at the engineering school, and recent arrests of student athletes and coaches. UD's particularly interested in the faculty's frustration with its much-arrested athletes and coaches (it's a bonding thing ... athletes and coaches get arrested at Ohio University), but as the faculty point out, a coach convicted of drunk driving, plus his bandit players, are trifles here... There's more mayhem where that came from ... Yet UD wonders why the faculty thinks OU's no doubt hapless trustees (Why haven't they done anything about any of this? If they're like many boards of trustees, they're helping it along.) will be of any use. UD suspects that this gesture is more of a snarl in the direction of the university's yet more hapless president. |