On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Performance Review Committee wrote:

> Dear UTC Faculty:
>
> In response to several questions regarding the upcoming vote on the
> post-tenure review implementation plan this Tuesday:
>
> A "yes" vote means that you want UTC's implementation plan, rather than one
> written by someone else, to be followed next year when post tenure review
> becomes a reality.
>
> A "no" vote means that the UT system will impose an implementation plan of
> its choosing on the UTC campus.
>
> Please feel free to e-mail me or call me if you have additional questions.
>
> Marilyn Helms

"Vote early and often" is the first slogan of machine politics.  And the
second is like unto it:  when you lose on the first vote, call another
vote and do it again.

As a phased-out retiree, I have no vote in Tuesday's election, but I have
kept up with this issues, and I have some perspective of this institution
of higher yearning, beginning in 1967.  That perspective suggests that
whenever those here who support Knoxville's bidding pull out the old
chestnut of UTC autonomy to justify their position, faculty members and
those authentically interested in autonomy had best guard their wallets
and tenure.

With those words, I pledge to sink back into the obscurity that my career
so richly deserves.

For what it's worth.

Larry Ingle
Formerly History