[Uosenate] no confidence; pay cuts

[Nicolas Addington]

Dear Senate Colleagues,

I'm new to the Senate, so please forgive me if I'm out of line in writing 
to the mailing list like this.  Please also forgive my folly in addressing 
two topics in one email.

1. A week ago there was a very hesitant discussion about a vote of no 
confidence.  After Friday's meeting with Sholz and Long, I imagine the 
support for such a vote is much stronger: they, along with Poulson, 
Moffitt, and others, have badly mismanaged the budget over the last few 
years, and heads should roll.  How should we proceed?

2. Many senior faculty are willing to accept pay cuts, if administrators 
will too, in order to avert the much more damaging cuts now proposed. 
It's good to make a counter-proposal to address the current budget 
shortfall and not just say "don't cut this, don't cut that."  It's hard 
for the union to support pay cuts since, as one of my constituents put it, 
their job is to get us raises.  Maybe the senate is in a better position 
to make such a proposal, with a view toward the health of the university 
as a whole?


Yours,
Nick Addington
Associate Professor, Mathematics