From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Sun May 16 2004 - 20:13:28 EDT
>It's not a matter of principle, but practice. I do not see a queue of people >waiting to rotate into and out of this administrative job in which Jerry has >wielded no power, False. He has also been exempt from power. >even if the job carries any, which it does not appear to. > >Can we get back to matters of substance? I am all for substance, and contribute substance as much as I can. Even in these posts I have at least suggested some substantive debates. bhandari >michael >------------------------------------ >Michael Williams >Harrow Business School (E3.09) >Watford Road >Harrow >Middlesex >HA1 3TP >tel: 020 7911 5000 #4563 >fax: 020 7911 5931 >Home tel: 023 80768641 >Home Fax: 0871 242 5819 >michaelj.williams@tiscali.co.uk >M.J.Williams02@wmin.ac.uk >mobile: 07906 172655 >http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mwilliams > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of >> Rakesh Bhandari >> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:40 PM >> To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU >> Subject: Re: (OPE-L) Re: old and new publishing technologies >> >> >> > >> > >> >Indeed, there are frustrations to be expected over that period of >> >time. That is why I am so encouraged to _stay_ as >> coordinator. There >> >are now eighty-seven (87) members of OPE-L. You are the >> only one (1) >> >that has called for my resignation. That is an _excellent_ approval >> >rating. >> >> Levy, it's not a question of approval. It's a question of >> whether anyone should monopolize administrative authority for >> close to a decade. I am sure that most of those OPE-L'ers who >> are thankful or moderately thankful for your administration >> would agree that nine years from any one person is enough, >> that administration should be rotated, and that the advisory >> committee should appoint someone new. You do not own this >> list; you do not pay for it. No one OPE-L member does. The >> question is not whether Levy should resign but whether any >> one person should moderate for more than nine years. I >> doubt that anyone on this list would agree to that in principle. >> >> Let's see who disagrees with that. >> >> Rakesh >>
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