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I am going to try and sum up the basics of what has happend here.
Last fall there was a big deal about this lesbian couple that were going to be hired on as professors. Virginia Tech has this policy that in order to attract more qualified faculty members they will do everything possible to hire the faculty members significant other.
This makes sense since it can be difficult to attract qualified faculty members if their significant other already has a established job that he/she does not want to leave. By trying to find a job for the other member of the couple they can attract faculty members easier.
Tech offers a professor position to one of the women in the english department. She asks if tech can find a position for her signifigant other who is a education professor. Tech writes up a contract to offer her a position as an primary education professor. Both women agree with the contract and the english professor takes her position and the other woman agrees to take the education professor position.
So all seemed well or so we all thought. The Board of Visitors still had to give the final approval to the woman's education contract. The BOV denies approval of the contract supposebly because of budget cuts and tech could no longer afford to hire the other woman.
Now if it had just stopped here then nothing more would have come of this story besides a basic breach of contract dispute.
Too bad for the BOV that a few other things happend. The newly hired engineering dean had his wife hired for an administration position that paid about the same as the other woman's education position.
An anonomys email was found to have been circulating between the BOV members saying not to hire the woman because she was a lesbian. This prompts a massive letter writing and petition campaign to force the BOV to the hire the woman. Just a little while ago she was finally hired for non-tenure track position that was nothing like the original position described in her contract.
Now you all have the foundation of what has been going on here so this is what has happend currently. The BOV has done several things at once that have managed to piss of just about everyone on campus.
1. The BOV has removed the language from Techs anti-discrimination policy that applies to sexual orientation. They did this on monday, right after spring break, when no one was here, in a closed session ,where no debate was allowed.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?tim=12-3-2003&ID=909
2. The BOV ended the affirmative action policy at tech before the Supreme Court has made a ruling on the pending affirmative action case.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=908
3. The BOV has given the president of the university the power to ban any extremist right or left wing groups from speaking on campus. Any group that the president labels as a "domestic violence" group or "terrorist" group could be banned from campus and not allowed to speak.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=927
So lets see there was this massive protest in front of our administration building Burruss hall. From what I have heard a thousand some people eventually got tired of protesting outside the building and rushed the presidents office.
Still don't know what happend with that yet I will have to wait till the 10 O'Clock news tonight to see. I am sure this will start getting more media attention nation wide as well.
Last fall there was a big deal about this lesbian couple that were going to be hired on as professors. Virginia Tech has this policy that in order to attract more qualified faculty members they will do everything possible to hire the faculty members significant other.
This makes sense since it can be difficult to attract qualified faculty members if their significant other already has a established job that he/she does not want to leave. By trying to find a job for the other member of the couple they can attract faculty members easier.
Tech offers a professor position to one of the women in the english department. She asks if tech can find a position for her signifigant other who is a education professor. Tech writes up a contract to offer her a position as an primary education professor. Both women agree with the contract and the english professor takes her position and the other woman agrees to take the education professor position.
So all seemed well or so we all thought. The Board of Visitors still had to give the final approval to the woman's education contract. The BOV denies approval of the contract supposebly because of budget cuts and tech could no longer afford to hire the other woman.
Now if it had just stopped here then nothing more would have come of this story besides a basic breach of contract dispute.
Too bad for the BOV that a few other things happend. The newly hired engineering dean had his wife hired for an administration position that paid about the same as the other woman's education position.
An anonomys email was found to have been circulating between the BOV members saying not to hire the woman because she was a lesbian. This prompts a massive letter writing and petition campaign to force the BOV to the hire the woman. Just a little while ago she was finally hired for non-tenure track position that was nothing like the original position described in her contract.
Now you all have the foundation of what has been going on here so this is what has happend currently. The BOV has done several things at once that have managed to piss of just about everyone on campus.
1. The BOV has removed the language from Techs anti-discrimination policy that applies to sexual orientation. They did this on monday, right after spring break, when no one was here, in a closed session ,where no debate was allowed.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?tim=12-3-2003&ID=909
2. The BOV ended the affirmative action policy at tech before the Supreme Court has made a ruling on the pending affirmative action case.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=908
3. The BOV has given the president of the university the power to ban any extremist right or left wing groups from speaking on campus. Any group that the president labels as a "domestic violence" group or "terrorist" group could be banned from campus and not allowed to speak.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=927
So lets see there was this massive protest in front of our administration building Burruss hall. From what I have heard a thousand some people eventually got tired of protesting outside the building and rushed the presidents office.
Still don't know what happend with that yet I will have to wait till the 10 O'Clock news tonight to see. I am sure this will start getting more media attention nation wide as well.
