Cancel the Provost-sized skewers

Yesterday's general faculty meeting saw the vote of no-confidence against the Provost tabled for consideration at the next meeting, and little more. Seeing as how such a meeting is months off, it looks like the appetite for Peterson-on-a-stick has disapated markedly in the past few weeks.

Huh.

The move against the Provost stemmed strictly from his refusal to stand up to Dr. Jackson when she gave the maniacal order to destroy a survey by the faculty citing a very stretched legal precedant in the process. None of the issues that led to the survey being issued--the faculty's grievances about governance, concerns over pensions, the 71% disapproval rating of Dr. Jackson's administration --have been addressed, and this nonsense with the Provost has certainly only amplified their frustration. How such anger could be restrained through such a meeting is beyond my comprehension, but hey, I'm not the one with the PhDs.