Allright so my university has gone completly insane

[P. B. Walker]

So what's the latest in the land of the Hokies?

BOV going to get their shit in one sock and fix things?

PBW "Bad Company - Bad Company"

 

[Azwed]

So what's the latest in the land of the Hokies?

BOV going to get their shit in one sock and fix things?

PBW "Bad Company - Bad Company"

Nothing new as of yet. I am sure more will come out next week. I do not know if the Gov. has the power to remove members from the BOV but I do know that four of the current members will be done with their term over the summer.

 

[P. B. Walker]

Nothing new as of yet. I am sure more will come out next week. I do not know if the Gov. has the power to remove members from the BOV but I do know that four of the current members will be done with their term over the summer.

My officemate is a Techie, and so is the woman 3 doors down, and there's another one on the other side of the building.

Makes for some good ribbing during football season.

PBW "Beethoven - Ave Maria"

 

[Azwed]

My officemate is a Techie, and so is the woman 3 doors down, and there's another one on the other side of the building.

Makes for some good ribbing during football season.

PBW "Beethoven - Ave Maria"

Q: You know what the UVA engineering graduate said to the Virginia Tech engineering grad.



































A: You want fries with that.

 

[P. B. Walker]

Uhh huh.

 

[Azwed]

Here is my update for the day.

Here is the PDF version of the CT if you have acrobat.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/linkedFiles/CTinPDF.pdf

Here is the front news page http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?cat_id=

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1008

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1009

Both the SGA and the Faculty senate have voted on resolutions condeming the BOV.

I also must correct some previously stated info. The BOV met and voted on all of these issues this past friday in a completly closed session with no debate allowed at all. I had said before that I thought the non-voting faculty, grad and undergrad representatives were there or at least the faculty rep was there.


That was wrong none of the non-voting members were allowed at that this meeting at all.

Also the faculty representative to the BOV is the president of the faculty senate and the chair of the LGBTA congress and a member of several other gay/lesbian organizations.

I haven't decided yet if the BOV was just so stupid that they thought they could get away with this or if they just don't care anymore.

 

[Azwed]

Mini update here.

here is the url of this article

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1042
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BOV members react to recent controversies

posted: March 20, 2003




by William Copsey
News Editor

Members of the Virginia Tech community should soon know whether the Board of Visitors will reconvene to revisit last week’s decisions, a board member said.

Elsewhere, Tech’s Black Alumni Network held a press conference to respond to the board’s decisions.

The board’s decisions, which came out of its March 10 meeting, effectively eliminated affirmative action, removed sexual orientation from the discrimination policy and set up barriers to free speech on campus.

Ben Davenport, a BOV member, said the whole board is very concerned about the issue.

Davenport said the board did not know when it passed the recent measures that reactions would attract such vehement opposition.

“We certainly had no idea that the reaction of the community would be what

it’s been,” said Davenport, who was appointed to the board by Gov. Mark Warner last year.

Although Davenport would not comment on whether the board will meet or not, he said it should soon be evident.

Board members have been talking with one another and are very aware of the passionate response with which the decisions were met, he said.

The BOV is a strong advocate of the university, he said, citing the passage of the new Commission on Equal Opportunity

and Diversity as an example.

In addition, the board approved the hire of Shelli Fowler, which Davenport said was a positive decision.

“At the end of the day, what I think we all want to do is act in the best interests of the university,” Davenport said.

The board often has to weigh what it would like to do against what it thinks it should do, he said. “A lot of times we are torn between our hearts and what we are told we should do to be legal,” he said.

BOV Rector John Rocovich said in an interview with local television station WSLS last night that the backlash is mostly created by people who do not understand the issue.

Rocovich also said he primarily wanted board members to be protected financially from any legal liabilities.

“What the resolution addressed was protecting the board from personal liability for supporting, knowingly supporting, unconstitutional, illegal discrimination provisions,” Rocovich said in the interview.

Brian Roberts, who spoke at the Washington, D.C. press conference and is the spokesman for Tech’s Black Alumni Network, said the board’s decisions send a confusing signal. “For black alumni, it’s almost like a slap in the face,” Roberts said.

At the same time as the university is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tech’s first black students, the board decided to revoke affirmative action, he said.

Roberts also faulted the board for coming to its decision behind closed doors.

“It’s almost as if they put the hoods on and went into a back room,” he said.

A massive number of alumni have decided to stop donating money to Tech until the university deals with the present situation, Roberts said.

The decision was one motivated by politics, he said, and one that did not have to be made until after the Supreme Court rules on affirmative action.

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Basicly the BOV was just trying to cover its financial ass and then using Kilgores memo, he is VA's AG, as cover to get away with it. I watched the interview refrenced in this article and I wonder if this guy is just stupid or flat out lying.

You can't claim that you are removing unconstitutional regulations from the University until the Supreme court rules on the particular regulation.

This article here sums up my position better then I could

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=996

The state and federal laws only provide a floor for discrimination regulations anyone can add additonal regulations if they choose.

Hmhh sorry about the funky symbols in there I dont know what happend I would just read it from the URL.

 

[P. B. Walker]

This tale is getting stranger and stranger... and very sad too.

Hope they work this shit out... that whole BOV needs to be repopulated.

 

[Azwed]

This tale is getting stranger and stranger... and very sad too.

Hope they work this shit out... that whole BOV needs to be repopulated.

Yes it is getting very strange. I wonder if I can find a copy of the TV interview on the net?

I will look around some see what I can find.

Like I said before this was just the BOV members trying to cover their ass from lawsuits and nothing more.

 

[Azwed]

Ahhah a partial victory.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1067

The VA AG Kilgore has overturned the BOV's resolution that would give the president of Tech the power to ban extremist groups from campus.

Kilgore said that the resolution was blatantly unconstitutional.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=1068

On April 6th all of the members of the BOV will meet again to revisit their previous resolutions.