5/4/99
Dear Nick:

        Just a note to tell you that at least one "Amen" is coming from the
corner; and don't think for a moment that any of us failed to dig the
symbolic as well as the physical implications of that injunction about "not
shooting ourselves in the foot," coming as it does from a runner with your
credentials and skill.

        Yours in the interest of multi-functional metaphors.

        tcw













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>I appreciate symbolic acts as much as any idealist should, but the time for
>symbolic votes, like those proposed by Professor Lynch, is over, and the
>time to start mitigating the encroachment on academic freedom that the UT
>Board has forced on us has begun. The REVISED tenure policy is clearly
>preferable to the unrevised--it specifies who gets to vote on a tenure
>termination action, for instance. Who gets to vote is not symbolic; it is a
>very practical and crucial aspect of the process. Besides, I predict that
>yet another symbolic act by UTC will have precisely the same effect that
>all the others have had on the UT Board, which is to say, nothing.
>
>We all agree that the new policy stinks. Do we have to shoot ourselves in
>the foot to demonstrate our displeasure with what is being forced upon us?
>
>Nick Honerkamp

t.c. ware