From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 20:43:02 EST
Rakesh, Get five people signed together on a petition and post it; or stop wasting patience. Paul Z. On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > At 7:54 PM -0500 2/3/05, OPE-L Administrator wrote: > >The list policy on admissions was reported on in-depth in [OPE-L:6958], > >a statement by the Advisory Committee (AC) dated 4/10/02. Advisory > >Committee decision-making, including decisions about admissions, are > >by consensus. I have no more or less "de facto veto power" over AC > >decision-making re admissions than do any of the AC members. Any > >member of the AC or I can, should we choose, block consensus or > >threaten to block consensus. At no time since the AC was formed in > >2002 have I or any current or former member of the AC blocked > >consensus or threatened to block consensus on admissions or any > >other topic. > > Oh are you saying that you have never recommended against someone's > admission and that you have never turned down a request for > admission? Hmmm. Very interesting. And why should you be part of the > consensus procedure at all? You have done this for ten years. Why > should your imprint be on all future list admissions? If you want to > "moderate" discussion, go ahead. But you should not have any control > over who is admitted in the future. I fail again to see why this is > controversial. There is an advisory committee; let it handle future > admissions without your power to block consensus. Let us see if some > old names will resurface and new names proposed. > > Rakesh > > > > > > > >Should anyone want to discuss the list policy or to make > >recommendations for admission, then please contact > >Alejandro <valle@servidor.unam.mx>, Allin <cottrell@wfu.edu>, > >Fred <fmoseley@mtholyoke.edu> and myself <glevy@pratt.edu> > >off-list. > > > >In solidarity, Jerry > > >
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Feb 05 2005 - 00:00:01 EST