Professor Helms suggests in her recent memorandum that the choice in voting
on Tuesday is quite simple:

>
> 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.
>

In fact, the choice is even simpler--a yes vote imposes the plan written by
the Helms committee, while a no vote imposes the same plan in defiance of
any vote.

At meetings of Faculty Council, and on other occasions, members of the Helms
committee and of the administration have ducked the question of what the
"one written by someone else" would look like, but there won't be a dime's
worth of difference, whether it bears the fingerprints of Berry & Stacy, Bob
Levy, Joe Johnson, Helms & co., or Darth Vader.

Your real choice is this:

A bright, shiny new guillotine will appear in the Faculty Handbook next
fall, which, professor Helms has assured us, is "unlikely" to be used.

Voting yes will leave YOUR fingerprints on it, voting no won't.


Fritz Efaw,
Sacco-Vanzetti Chair of
Excellence in Edu-babble