Dear Colleagues: There is a scheduled Faculty Meeting tomorrow, Reading Day, Tuesday, April 27 at 10: 15. Your presence and your vote are needed. The implementation document for the UT Board of Trustees' new tenure policy is coming up for a vote again. If you believe we should vote for the implementation policy, ask yourself the following questions: - Is the Board's tenure policy and subsequent implementation in the best interests of this faculty? -Do we really believe that the Board's new policy, or the implementation document strengthen tenure? -Was this new tenure policy created with full consultation of this faculty, in an ethical, professional and collegial manner? -Do you believe that the notion of tenure remains untainted as a result of the changes made by the UT Board? -Should the Faculty pass the implementation document because of fear of terrible consequences, and devious punitive measures? - Why is the administration so eager for us to pass an implementation to a policy which we had no hand in shaping? -Why is the implementation not mandated, just as the Board's new tenure policy was mandated in June 1998? Why we should vote No to the implementation policy: -Because if we believe the Board's tenure policy to be unjust and heavy-handed, to cooperate with its implementation would be dishonest. -Because all our requests to change, ammend, or palliate the language of the Board's tenure policy have been rejected by UT. -Because we should maintain an ethical posture and not yield to something we know to be wrong in principle. -Because by voting on an implementation procedure we would be validating the Board's tenure policy in spite of our reservations. - Because we should disabuse ourselves from the social fiction that the new tenure policy and its implementation will be enforced in a collegial atmosphere. -Because the Faculty already voted "NO," and there are not enough changes in the document that merit new consideration. -Because a petition signed by 183 members of the tenured faculty to delay the adoption of the new tenure policy was denied by UT. Professor P.F.Campa Dept of Foreign Langs. UTC