The Justice

We appreciate the coverage of the Faculty Senate and most especially your recent editorial, which highlights "the faculty's lack of confidence in the administration." We, too, worry about the relationship between the faculty and the administration "falling to pieces."

We are especially concerned about the "imminent breakdown in the system of faculty dispute resolution" and are doing our best to address the concerns of the Faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities as they relate to the Senate, and we hope that the administration will also address the serious concerns noted by that committee in a fair and speedy manner.

This will help to build faculty confidence in the administration and will allow the Senate, to use the words of the editorial, to again "be the committee it should be."

There is one implication of the editorial, however, that might be misleading. In discussing the breakdown in administration-faculty relations at the same time that it talks about the proposed amendments to increase the voice of nontenured faculty in the Senate, it suggests that these two matters are linked. This is not the case.

The amendments we are proposing were first suggested well before the present crisis developed and should be considered on their own merit. Although some in the Senate worry that untenured faculty members may not feel comfortable speaking their minds and may be pressured by senior colleagues and administrators.

We still feel that it is important that the Senate represent the entire faculty and that more untenured faculty members should have the option to join the Senate if they so wish.



-Marc Brettler (NEJS), Seth

Fraden (PHYS), Catherine

Mann (IBS), Richard Parmentier (ANTH)



Marc Brettler is the Chair of the Faculty Senate. Seth Fraden, Catherine Mann and Richard Parmentier are members of the Faculty Senate Council.

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