timesunion.com — Professors are in a fight over faculty governance that is engulfing the school. They are upset that the board of trustees has suspended the faculty senate, a move that has been called "incredibly demeaning and disrespectful toward the faculty." Give this all the publicity it can get!
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mictlanianSep 27, 2007
'07, ditto
weizillaSep 27, 2007
actually, they're all too busy playing WoW and Halo 3.
geekdSep 28, 2007
And I should "Give this all the publicity it can get!" why? With all the crazy crap happening in the world that the mainstream media is just ignoring, I should pay attention to some uppity college's local problem WHY? Are monks getting shot? Are people getting killed by US contractors? Are people getting tasered by the police? IS BRITNEY SHOWING HER COOTCHIE AGAIN? No? Then I don't care.
spykemailSep 28, 2007
As a recent graduate I'm appalled but not surprised. I won't pretend that President Jackson, the Administration, or the Board of Trustees are evil, I'm sure some if not most of their intentions are good, but the leadership is falling apart. I just spent 5 years at RPI (lol), and during that time I saw poor decision piled upon poor decision.Why in Stephen Van Rensselaer's name would you try to blackmail the Greek community at the oldest technological school in the country into going dry? To add a line in a marketing booklet? To lower some statistic by 5%? Are these things worth restricting the freedom of your students so severely? Sadly, the freedom of students is of relatively little concern to *some* of these men and women. But even they should be able to see the negative consequences for the school's image. By fostering the already extremely negative and sarcastic attitude that many students (and faculty) have about their school they're insuring that what good times they have will be associated with their friends, their fraternity or sorority, their club, their team, the faculty, their Department - anyone or anything besides the school as a whole. When they fill out surveys, answer questions, or grow old and rich it will be those friends and organizations who they remember fondly - not RPI, because, as a good friend of mine once said, "RPI sucks." You have but two groups to thank for that - and they're the RPI administration and the Board of Trustees.During a time of supposed prosperity for the school why the hell would you dissolve the Faculty Senate? If the faculty's votes are any indication they're not very happy with the administration, so how exactly is dissolving their representative body going to improve relations? Hmm? It's not like they're going to grab torches and pitchforks and start burning stuff down. I honestly cannot think of a worse way to deal with poor relations - I can only guess that the administration thinks they can somehow keep the faculty quiet now but that notion is nothing if not laughable. The only way to shut them up is to wait for all of the smart ones to retire - yeah, good luck with that.I will always be proud of my school, but not its current leadership. I remember RPI, not Rensselaer, and all the amazing people I met there. I remember it for the brilliant men and women who still teach and work there, not the expensive new buildings or cutting edge research. I remember people like Bill Puka who teach students not what they need to know to get some meaningless piece of paper, but something they can actually use for the rest of their lives. I remember students like the current Grand Marshal, Julia Leusner, who are actually willing to listen to reason instead of simply waiting for their turn to talk. I remember Arthur Galpin, the inflatable whale who gets more votes for Grand Marshal each year than President Jackson would if she were a student. I even remember Alby the Albino squirrel, whose death saddened me more than being academically dismissed for a semester.I just got my first real job and I have a lot of loans to pay off, but I've already made plans for the future. I'm going to retire old and rich, and when I do you can bet the EMPAC building RPI will not be in my will unless its leaders begin to live up to the amazing people who teach and study there.
spykemailSep 28, 2007
Double phail, the Emperor (President) dissolved the Imperial (Faculty) Senate in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
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rockchopsJan 29, 2008
How can a place (like Potsdam) be sketchy if there is NOTHING IN IT?
tuttt3Aug 15, 2008
'97. What they said!
tuttt3Aug 15, 2008
No, InstitutIONs are for mental patients. But oldchemist is right, TripKnot. You probably should stay away from MIT and CalTech. They'd be above your mental capacity.