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Jacobs' arrogance is astonishing
It's the same old, same old at UT
. . . . Either Jacobs is misleading the media or he has misled the Board of Trustees. President Jacobs objected to "the general tone" of the UT-AAUP Newsletter. Many persons on this campus object to the "general tone" of the Jacobs Administration. During his tenure as President, he has introduced an administrative culture of fear and intimidation. . . . A point of logic must be raised here, with all respect to UT AAUP, the conclusions that President Jacobs has (1) misled the media and (2) the Board of Trustees are not mutually exclusive. Both would seem likely given his considerable talent at spinning "visions." |
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Events rapidly unfolding, and highlighted by Dr. Jacobs behavior in several recent public meetings, suggest that he is not a decisive and straightforward leader, but impetuous and rude. He is proving in public to be his own worst enemy. Like the notorious "boy with a hammer" Dr. Jacobs guided by his mandate of creative destruction is "finding nails everywhere." The College of Arts and Sciences is one such nail; the big one that first catches his attention and needs driving down. If Dr. Jacobs or his captains possesed the least bit of charisma
they might have succeeded early on in taking A&S faculty where they don't want to go. Instead it has been a year of brute power and the hammer. UT administrative mismanagement and incompetence at the highest levels was long-contained, but is now on public display and increasingly embarassing.
Are you a frog in a well? Our message, our cause, is not being hopelessly lost. Although some of that message is being held hostage by The Blade, the conspiracy and conflict of interest there can be easily aired out in public so the Truth can be freed: Does not the Vice Chair of the UT Board of Trustees also manage the corporation that runs The Blade? Dirty tricks notwithstanding: Our message is already out there, strong and clear. A resolute coalition of activist protesters comprised of students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters, from near and far, has already formed to do battle and follow through in the aftermath of the overwhelming A&S Council vote of no confidence. You are apparently now having second thoughts about that vote. Why? Your cause is as just now as it was a month ago. Sadly, your sort of moderation will soon have you and other capitulators (perhaps over our dead bodies) marching off, heads bowed, into the undignified abysmal embrace of Big Brother and whatever plan of vindictive captivity He and His captains have already arranged for you: passive sheep, standing fast instead of butting heads, you are sure and certain to be shorn.
Your righteous indignation is showing. Is that all you can muster up? This Summer Battle to protect A&S against the Hammermeister and his Hoard of Suits should frankly be framed in all its obvious urgency as "The Mother of All A&S Battles!" The fight is on. So stand passively aside or peddle your pessimism and resignation elsewhere. There is no better campus-wide pedagogy for this occasion than the public example of a resolute core of informed student/faculty joined in active and optimistic pursuit of their Just Cause.
Yeah. Tone it down Diogenes. None's rational passivist position makes sense -- Nonesense.
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