What is with UNM.Is it mandatory that the Presidential candidate be a “c“word user? Schmdily was hired despite his having used that word on an Af. am Law school dean.It is also part of Elizabeth Hoffman’s repertoire who used it on Katie hnida the raped football player. She also fired Ward churchill and denied him his freedom of speech! Are there no Native american faculty, students and community members who will speak up? Everyone of the candidates has problem. Meredith Hay who was a cnadidate here last time seems to have gone to U of A and tanked there.Four of the candidates have been made to step down by the fauculty for some reason or another. If the one decent candidate wants to preserve his family and not be made mincemeat he should withdraw! he doesn’t have the experience of dealing with Neew Mexico politcs! We REALLY need someone who can lead the university to a higher tier level and knows New Mexico. the committee should go back to the drawing board. Did they not search these candidates on google? Jamie Roybal is right. There is no reason to conduct these interviews now and waste the university’s money on bringin candidates in when no one can attend! Faculty don’t have time to contact their colleagues on the other campuses and find out what happened with all these who were made to stgep down— especially our New Mexico alum. something is VERY fishy there! There have got to be better candidates in the pool— people the faculty have liked an dknown and know New Mexico

Only the Daily Lobo would manage to do any entire story on the presidential search committee naming five finalists and not mention the names. Congratulations, you have reached new depths of journalistic incompetence. For those interested, the names are:

• Douglas D. Baker, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Idaho
• Robert G. Frank, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kent State University
• Meredith Hay, Special Advisor to the Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Arizona Board of Regents
• Elizabeth Hoffman, Executive Vice President and Provost, Iowa State University
• Elsa A. Murano, Professor and President Emerita, Texas A & M University

They couldn’t have found a whiter group of candidates at a Klan Rally.

Wow, there is so much wrong with this picture!
You schedule student interviews during finals week, almost as if you want to avoid having students turn up. Hmmm

Meridth Hay !? Seriously, after going through dumply SCHUMDLY you want to bring in Hay. First google of her:
“Meredith Hay, the University of Arizona’s sometimes controversial provost…”

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What we can gleen from the comments so far is that many have a habit of taking a negative outlook on whatever comes along. To follow this gloomy path is a distortion. Any prediction, whether pessimistic or hopeful, is a step into the unknown. People get a payoff from their pessimism though. It serves to create misery but serves their demand for control. There is more risk in being open to something positive; when people predict and expect negative things they squelch or overlook many good things in the process. In this manner they can always say “ I told you so” and then they can satisfy their self-centered craving to be in charge.

Sweat – I was wondering how long it would take someone to point out that they are all white.

Of course, the local Hispanic political groups are already complaining, as they always do if a New Mexioc Hispanic is considered — see today’s ABQ Journal.

meant to write “..whenever a NM Hispanic is NOT considered.”

These activist groups think we should just draw on the local population to head the “flagship” institution of our state. Very narrow-minded.

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Elsa Murano isn’t white…

Perhaps you mean “Anglo” IF Murano is a Spanish name and you happen to know that she considers herself to be “Hispanic” or “Latina.”

Under federal categories — used in the census, for example — Hispanic is an ethnicity, a concept separate from that of Race.

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