Shots In The Dark

Two thoughts on the motions below: One, that there's a choice thickens the plot. And two, Randy Matory has dispensed with the political language of his earlier motion for a straight-up vote of no-confidence. There's something quite powerful about that stark, solitary sentence. It certainly clarifies the issue.

I don't know how the faculty will see Theda Skocpol's motion now that Matory has given them a viable alternative. Will his motion be seen as too strong? Will Skocpol's be considered too conciliatory, too soft? Or will people vote for both?

Incidentally, the last item on the docket is discussion of the curricular review. The faculty will almost surely run out of time before getting to that...leaving just two more faculty meetings before the end of the year. The likelihood that nothing serious will happen with the review before 2006 is growing.