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Added 4/30, because on this date in 1859 Charles Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, in serial form. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way .... Everything is fine at App...
Nor should there be any concern about a recent vote of no confidence in the Provost, a negative vote by a margin of one. (We should note that a tie vote in a Departmental Personnel Committee tenure vote is considered to be a negative vote.) EDBERT
With apologies to Scott Adams... Not so fine with tattling web site at ASU
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Damned if you can, damned if you can't
The University presented a workshop/retreat on the work/life balance. The problem was that if you had time to go, you did not need to. If you did not have time, then you probably needed to go. Whoops. This was actually another sting operation: the registration list is to be used as a list of people who are probably not essential. This is reminiscent of a previous sting.
Lordy: couldn't Carey less...
In the email she defended Vice Provost of Nefarious Faculty, Tawny Careylessness. As a reward for his hard work and loyalty, the VP will have half his work taken from him by splitting his position. The response itself is another in a series of questionable decisions (see previous Seen). We'll see if it lasts. As a colleague said, "every car she's driven into the lot has been booted."
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Foulish actions
Apparently many of the University's deans crawled to the meeting and grovelled their way to providing their signature. A couple are reported to have preserved their dignity and refused to sign. Oddly, the report is that the person serving as the shill to call the meeting was Lynd A. Foolisham. Yes, the equal opportunity official. A few weeks later she resigned, giving the time-proven reason to spend more time with her family. (No, we are not making that up.) We await the announcements by those few deans that they will be stepping down to spend more time in their department. Department in College of Business to be Restructured
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April Fools 2013
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The University has assured the community that all is well and there is not need to pay any attention to petitions of complaint signed by dozens of senior faculty.
The Provost defended her actions in a recent email. "I am working hard to support the faculty in achieving the goals that I have figured out should be their goals," said Provost Lordy Gonoverzealous.
We heard reports that the Provost had a meeting called for all deans to sign a loyalty oath to the administration.
ASU recently announced that it would be hring a new position: Vice Provost of Research. As often happens, the faculty were first made aware of this decision by reading it in the Watauga Democrat.
The University carefully prepared its plan for the SACS review. They gathered a large amount of data, hopefully to distract the team from noticing either the widespread dissent on campus or the ill-chosen theme for the Quantity Enhancement Plan (or was that Quality?). While many lists of attributes of college graduates desired by employers include critical thinking, working in groups, and good communication (hmm..that sounds like research experience), we decided on, well, international experience, which appears on no lists. 
Appalachian, after showing Jerry Moore the door, made another fine decision in moving to BCS. In the Sun Belt we will play such fine teams as Idaho and New Mexico State. Students are already starting to save for airline tickets to go to the games.