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I've been passed additional information.

A number of Senators from one school, Arts and Sciences (yes, the one to be gutted if our views regarding Watts' intent are correct) have been lobbied hard to line up behind the president. They may have the votes to sustain Watts; it is not clear, nor is what success if any he may have had today. If you are an A&S grad, you may want to make your feelings known by e-mail one more time tonight.

Our friends have asked for the maximum possible support to counter this.

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday December 9th, every Blazer marches. Everyone. There has never been a greater need. Do whatever is necessary to make this happen.

Rally as Mitch directs.

They're forming alliances! It IS like Hunger Games! lol.

I'm sure that cooler heads will prevail when they are surrounded by their peers. But it would very much help with A&S students/alumni could remind them again, politely and respectfully, how important this is.

(12-08-2014 10:05 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  They're forming alliances! It IS like Hunger Games! lol.

Yes, but we have over 100 Katnissesses.

If you have not been out yet, the passion of our people is a life experience you will not forget.

Ask them, again: Can you trust Ray Watts?

Anything about Engineering? I'd say some departments of that school are at least potentially expendable!

As a member of the former School of Natural Science and Mathematics which is now a part of the School of Arts and Sciences, I sent a brief letter as requested asking them to support the voice of the students.

(12-08-2014 10:09 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 10:05 PM)thebernreuter Wrote:  They're forming alliances! It IS like Hunger Games! lol.

Yes, but we have over 100 Katnissesses.

If you have not been out yet, the passion of our people is a life experience you will not forget.

Oh yeah I was there the night after the Southern Miss game and the next morning. It's amazing.

Facebook source (citing a member of the senate) is reporting that the most that can happen tomorrow is a motion for a vote of no confidence for the next meeting. Anyone care to confirm or rebut this?

(12-08-2014 10:30 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  Facebook source (citing a member of the senate) is reporting that the most that can happen tomorrow is a motion for a vote of no confidence for the next meeting. Anyone care to confirm or rebut this?

That's probably accurate from my reading. I do know one senate member was trying to get it on the agenda for tomorrow but it might require a suspension of the rules in this instance

(12-08-2014 10:32 PM)biglizard Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 10:30 PM)GreenMississippi Wrote:  Facebook source (citing a member of the senate) is reporting that the most that can happen tomorrow is a motion for a vote of no confidence for the next meeting. Anyone care to confirm or rebut this?

That's probably accurate from my reading. I do know one senate member was trying to get it on the agenda for tomorrow but it might require a suspension of the rules in this instance

Yes, it is a two-step process. The rules are unlikely to be suspended, as "Watts ignored the rules" is a key point here.

We have to answer the lobbying and intimidation, or there will never be a Step Two.

where is the easy copy and paste email list?

(12-08-2014 10:37 PM)STLouis Blazer Wrote:  where is the easy copy and paste email list?

(12-02-2014 07:20 PM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 01:19 PM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote:  

(12-02-2014 01:17 PM)58-56 Wrote:  My brothers, my sisters,

I will be brief. It is time to direct your e-mails to the addresses below. This is the UAB Faculty Senate. Tell them, respectfully but passionately, why you believe in UAB and have no confidence in Ray Watts as its president. You know what to say. We need to see a vote of No Confidence in Ray L. Watts on December 9th.

Some of these people are our allies. Do not badger or insult. You know what to do.
If you know any of these people, IF YOU ARE THEIR STUDENTS, make the note heartfelt and personal.

This is important.

Chair: Chad Epps
cepps@uab.edu

Chair-Elect: Alecia Gross agross@uab.edu

Past-Chair: Michael Froelich froelich@uab.edu

Secretary: Pam Paustian paustian@uab.edu

Parliamentarian: Pat Higginbottom phiggin@uab.edu

Susan Key susankey@uab.edu

Jamey Worrell worrellj@uab.edu

Philip Musa musa@uab.edu

Jeanne Hutchison hutchiso@uab.edu

Gitendra Uswatte guswatte@uab.edu

Jay Jessee mjjessee@uab.edu

David C. Knight knightdc@uab.edu

Malinda Blair O'Leary mblair@uab.edu

Vessela Warner warnerv@uab.edu

Brian Kittredge briank@uab.edu

Scott Phillips slpmusic@uab.edu

Melissa Daniels danielma@uab.edu

Chengcui Zhang czhang02@uab.edu

Hyeyoung Lim hyeyoung@uab.edu

Samiksha Ashok Raut sraut@uab.edu

Edward H Bradford ebrad@uab.edu

Nada Souccar nsouccar@uab.edu

Chin-Chuan Fu ccfu@uab.edu

Dan Givan dgivan@uab.edu

Susan Spezzini spezzini@uab.edu

Keith Gurley kgurley@uab.edu

Jane Roy jroy@uab.edu

Betty Nelson benelson@uab.edu

Rose Scripa rscripa@uab.edu

Lee Moradi moradi@uab.edu

Arie Nakhmani anry@uab.edu

Hessam Taherian taherian@uab.edu

Bill Ogard bogard@uab.edu

Ria Hearld khearld@uab.edu

Larry Hearld lhearld@uab.edu

John Hurt johnhurt@uab.edu

David D Chaplin dchaplin@uab.edu

Mike Wyss jmwyss@uab.edu

Yabing Chen ybchen@uab.edu

Vladimir Parpura vlad@uab.edu

David Schneider dschneid@uab.edu

Elizabeth Sztul esztul@uab.edu

Jill Deaver jilld@uab.edu

Pat Higginbottom phiggin@uab.edu

Amy Warriner warriner@uab.edu

Michelle M McNamara mcnamara@uab.edu

Edgar Underwood eunder@uab.edu

Joe Sullivan jsul3rd@uab.edu

Tony Nicholas nicholas@uab.edu

Karen Gamble klgamble@uab.edu

Robert Brunner brunner@uab.edu

Carla Falkson cfalkson@uab.edu

Imelda Vetter ivetter@uab.edu

Brooke Becker babecker@uab.edu

Cheryl Robinson cdr18@uab.edu

Susanne Fogger sfogger@uab.edu

Gary W Milligan gmillig@uab.edu

Sylvia Britt sylviae@uab.edu

Tammy Than tthan@uab.edu

Claudio Busettini cbus@uab.edu

Michael Loop loop@uab.edu

Timothy Kraft twkraft@uab.edu

Xiangqin Cui xcui@uab.edu

Beth Brown elbrown@uab.edu

Gustavo de los Campos gcampos@uab.edu

Leslie McClure lmcclure@uab.edu

Bump

The stakes are higher than we're willing to let Ray and his boys read here in public. Write. March. it's important.

cepps@uab.edu,
agross@uab.edu,
froelich@uab.edu,
paustian@uab.edu,
phiggin@uab.edu,
susankey@uab.edu,
worrellj@uab.edu,
musa@uab.edu,
hutchiso@uab.edu,
guswatte@uab.edu,
mjjessee@uab.edu,
knightdc@uab.edu,
mblair@uab.edu,
warnerv@uab.edu,
briank@uab.edu,
slpmusic@uab.edu,
danielma@uab.edu,
czhang02@uab.edu,
hyeyoung@uab.edu,
sraut@uab.edu,
ebrad@uab.edu,
nsouccar@uab.edu,
ccfu@uab.edu,
dgivan@uab.edu,
spezzini@uab.edu,
kgurley@uab.edu,
jroy@uab.edu,
benelson@uab.edu,
rscripa@uab.edu,
moradi@uab.edu,
anry@uab.edu,
taherian@uab.edu,
bogard@uab.edu,
khearld@uab.edu,
lhearld@uab.edu,
johnhurt@uab.edu,
dchaplin@uab.edu,
jmwyss@uab.edu,
ybchen@uab.edu,
vlad@uab.edu,
dschneid@uab.edu,
esztul@uab.edu,
jilld@uab.edu,
warriner@uab.edu,
mcnamara@uab.edu,
eunder@uab.edu,
jsul3rd@uab.edu,
nicholas@uab.edu,
klgamble@uab.edu,
brunner@uab.edu,
cfalkson@uab.edu,
ivetter@uab.edu,
babecker@uab.edu,
cdr18@uab.edu,
sfogger@uab.edu,
gmillig@uab.edu,
sylviae@uab.edu,
tthan@uab.edu,
cbus@uab.edu,
loop@uab.edu,
twkraft@uab.edu,
xcui@uab.edu,
elbrown@uab.edu,
gcampos@uab.edu,
lmcclure@uab.edu

Yeah, that's better.

Dr. Watts is a proven liar. Why fall for his lies this late in the game? I know you guys harped on academia being a different monster all together, but what do they need to see to understand that this man isn't going to bring prosperity to anything? Did they not just see good men, good women, and families left out to dry because he made promises to man that believed in him? Did they not see him get on television and essentially say the major donors to the university were liars? What do they need to understand that his vision is circa 1969? What do they need to see to understand that his aim wasn't to just get a few athletic teams and then usher in a new day? Can they not see that UAB has already made the transition from being open, and honest about its practices to closed door meetings and NDAs?

I knew we would have to fight to get Dr. Watts to step down, but, man, I never would have thought he'd get any support from anyone at the school after these last few days. Not saying I don't believe you, because I do. I trust the people here. It's just that I don't even know what I'm supposed to do if they're so far gone that they're lapping up whatever he's giving them without realizing that he's tying them to the train tracks.

thanks

(12-08-2014 10:02 PM)58-56 Wrote:  I've been passed additional information.

A number of Senators from one school, Arts and Sciences (yes, the one to be gutted if our views regarding Watts' intent are correct) have been lobbied hard to line up behind the president. They may have the votes to sustain Watts; it is not clear, nor is what success if any he may have had today. If you are an A&S grad, you may want to make your feelings known by e-mail one more time tonight.

Our friends have asked for the maximum possible support to counter this.

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday December 9th, every Blazer marches. Everyone. There has never been a greater need. Do whatever is necessary to make this happen.

Rally as Mitch directs.

This is pretty shocking. If the arts and sciences folks are not on board this is over. They're the ones that are going to be actively screwed by any changes to the undergraduate side. No, UAB will not shut down the undergraduate programs, but could you see an undergraduate program that is nothing but science and no arts and humanities and other non-core areas? That's the question that should be on their minds.

Remind me again, are faculty meetings like the one tonight supposed to be open to the public?