<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Apologies for delay. This has made the rounds, so maybe it's mostly old news. <br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="y_msg_container"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "fransears@netscape.net" <fransears@netscape.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jencart13@yahoo.com</font><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Dave Cunningham <<a ymailto="mailto:cunningham.dave1@gmail.com" href="mailto:cunningham.dave1@gmail.com">cunningham.dave1@gmail.com</a>><br>To: fransears <<a
ymailto="mailto:fransears@netscape.net" href="mailto:fransears@netscape.net">fransears@netscape.net</a>><br>Cc: george repchinski <<a ymailto="mailto:George57@earthlink.net" href="mailto:George57@earthlink.net">George57@earthlink.net</a>><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Corey Robin <<a ymailto="mailto:comment-reply@wordpress.com" href="mailto:comment-reply@wordpress.com">comment-reply@wordpress.com</a>><br>Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 02:37:05 +0000<br><br>Posted : September 1, 2014 at 10:36 pm<br>Author : Corey Robin<br>Tags : Israel/Palestine, Phyllis Wise, Steven Salaita,<br>University of Illinois<br>Categories : Uncategorized<br><br>We are getting reports out of the University of Illinois that<br>Chancellor Wise is going to forward the Salaita appointment to the<br>Board of Trustees for a vote on September 11. A group of Gender and<br>Women's Studies students reports
the following (<br><a href="http://illinois.edu/lb/article/5198/87007" target="_blank">http://illinois.edu/lb/article/5198/87007 </a>) :<br>From GWS Undergraduate Stephanie Skora's report back on meeting with<br>Chancellor Wise on Monday, September 1, 2014:<br><br>The meeting with Chancellor Wise was a success, and we have gained<br>some valuable information and commitments from the Chancellor!<br><br>We have discovered that the Chancellor HAS FORWARDED Professor<br>Salaita's appointment to the Board of Trustees, and they will be<br>voting on his appointment during the Board of Trustees Meeting on<br>September 11th, on the UIUC campus! Our immediate future<br>organizational efforts will focus around speaking at, and appearing<br>at, this Board of Trustees meeting. We will be attempting to appear<br>during the public comment section of the Board of Trustees meeting, as<br>well as secure a longer presentation to educate them on the issues<br>about which
Professor Salaita tweeted. Additionally, we are going to<br>attempt to ensure that the Board of Trustees consults with a cultural<br>expert on Palestine, who can explain and educate them about the issues<br>and the context surrounding Professor Salaita's tweets. It has been<br>made clear to us that the politics of the Board of Trustees is being<br>allowed to dictate the course of the University, and that the<br>misinformation and personal views of the members of the Board are<br>being allowed to tell the students who is allowed to teach us,<br>regardless of who we say that we want as our educators. We will not<br>let this go unchallenged.<br><br>Additionally, Chancellor Wise has agreed to several parts of our<br>demands, and has agreed upon a timeline under which she will take<br>steps to address them. The ball is currently in her court, but we take<br>her agreements as a gesture of good faith and of an attempt to rebuild<br>trust between the University
administration and the student body. She<br>has not agreed unilaterally to our demands, and but we have made an<br>important first step in our commitment to reinstating Professor<br>Salaita. In terms of his actual reinstatement, the power to make that<br>decision is not hers. This is why we have shifted the target of our<br>efforts to the Board of Trustees, because they alone have the power to<br>reinstate and approve Professor Salaita's appointment at the<br>University. In regards to the rest of our demands, which we have<br>updated to reflect the town hall meeting, we have made progress on all<br>of those, but continue to emphasize that it is unacceptable to meet<br>any of our demands without first reinstating Professor Salaita.<br><br>We have made progress, but we all have a LOT of work left to do. We<br>must organize, write to the Board of Trustees, and make our voices and<br>our presences known. We will not be silent on September 11th, and
we<br>will not stop in our efforts to reinstate Professor Salaita,<br>regardless of what the Board of Trustees decides.<br><br>Please keep organizing, please keep making your voices heard, and<br>please#supportSalaita (<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/supportsalaita?source=feed_text&story_id=789552214455350" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/supportsalaita?source=feed_text&story_id=789552214455350</a><br>) !<br><br>Also, feel free to message or comment with any questions, comments, or <br>concerns.<br><br>Assuming the report is accurate, I can think of two interpretations of<br>what it means.<br><br>If the UIUC is thinking politically, it would be an absolute disaster<br>for them to open this can of worms, to act as if Salaita's appointment<br>is now a real possibility, to raise expectations for two weeks or so,<br>to encourage all the organizing this will encourage (I can imagine the<br>phone calls and
emails that will now start pouring into the Board of<br>Trustees), only to have the Board vote Salaita down. From a political<br>perspective, this would be a disaster for the university. The<br>strongest weapon the UIUC has always had is the sense that this is a<br>done deal, that they will not budge, that we can raise all the ruckus<br>we want, but they simply don't care. Opening the decision up again<br>calls that into question. Where does this line of reasoning lead us?<br>To the possibility that the UIUC Trustees will vote to appoint Salaita<br>on September 11, throw Chancellor Wise under the bus (remember, the<br>Executive Committee that upheld her decision is only comprised of<br>three Trustees, not the full Board), and say it was all a<br>misunderstanding wrought by an incompetent chancellor. Who'll then be<br>pushed out within a year. The advantage of this approach is that it<br>will effectively bring this story to a close. There will be
angry<br>donors, but everything I've ever read and experienced about that crew<br>suggests that their bark is often worse than their bite. The ongoing<br>atmosphere of crisis and ungovernability on campus is not something<br>any university leader can bear for too long, and this threatens to go<br>on for a very long time.<br><br>The other possibility is that the UIUC is thinking legally. One of the<br>many weak links in their legal case was that Wise never forwarded<br>Salaita's appointment to the Board of Trustees for a vote. She<br>basically did a pocket veto. Salaita's offer letter stated that his<br>appointment was subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, but Wise<br>effectively never allowed the Board to approve or disapprove. So the<br>UIUC's lawyers could have decided that the better thing to do would be<br>simply to carry out the full deed.<br><br>Many questions remain. Stay tuned. Regardless of which interpretation<br>is correct, we have to
operate on the assumption that the first is a<br>very real possibility and that we have a lot of work to do in the next<br>ten days.<br><br>Add a comment to this post:<br><a href="http://coreyrobin.com/2014/09/01/breaking-news-wise-to-forward-salaita-appointment-to-trustees/#respond" target="_blank">http://coreyrobin.com/2014/09/01/breaking-news-wise-to-forward-salaita-appointment-to-trustees/#respond</a><br><br>--<br>WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress!<br><br>Manage Subscriptions<br><a href="https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=2c0117a3276f34c82a96eb511e3a6f41&email=cunningham.dave1%40gmail.com" target="_blank">https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=2c0117a3276f34c82a96eb511e3a6f41&email=cunningham.dave1%40gmail.com</a><br><br>Unsubscribe:<br><a href="https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=2c0117a3276f34c82a96eb511e3a6f41&email=cunningham.dave1%40gmail.com&b=Lc%3D6wSUhiA%2BY%3FYuFN-He%2BJGYq17gF.OyugOP.4laqNi%25wquXw"
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