Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to late faculty appointments, Bowersock attributes CUE's painfully slow start to difficulty in finding a time when all ten members can attend. But judging from past performance, even when Bowersock does find a time when all ten members can meet, less than half the faculty members are likely to put in an appearance...
James Henderson '80, a student CUE member this year and last, recalls last year "some faculty members rarely ever showed." Often Bowersock was the only faculty representative present. Willa Brown '81, a CUE member last year, says she can't remember "a time when all five faculty members have been there...
...CUE attendance records of some faculty members are more shameful than others. Alfred Crompton, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a CUE member last year, appeared once or twice at the beginning of the year, then mysteriously vanished. "Professor Crompton never came to any of the meetings, and then he shot down one of our proposals--tutorial legislation--at the Faculty Council meeting," Henderson recollects. Crompton concedes he went to "singularly few" CUE meetings, explaining he was otherwise engaged "with an enormous number of commitments." (He added he did not recall specifically the debate on tutorial reform...
Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology and CUE member, says he went to CUE meetings last year, when "there wasn't a stronger priority." Consequently, Herrnstein attended "occasionally," Henderson notes...
...CHRONIC faculty absence, like the delay of the first CUE meeting this year, is only one aspect of the Faculty's longstanding disinterest in maintaining CUE as a serious contributor to Faculty policy. CUE was set up in 1969 as part of the Faculty reorganization plan to make recommendations on educational policy to the Faculty Council, which in turn decides whether to send the suggestions on to the Faculty in the form of legislation...