Davis Faculty Association Calls For Ouster Of UC-Davis Chancellor

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Posted on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:12:43 PM EST
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The Davis Faculty Association calls for ouster of UC-Davis Chancellor:

The DFA Board calls for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi. The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education generally represents a gross failure of leadership. Given the recent use of excessive force by police against “occupy” protestors at UC Berkeley and elsewhere, the Chancellor must have anticipated that, by authorizing police action, she was effectively authorizing their use of excessive force against peaceful UCD student protestors. The Chancellor’s role is to enable open and free inquiry, not to suppress it. We also call for a policy that will end the practice of forcibly removing non-violent student, faculty, staff, and community protestors by police on the UC Davis campus. The University of California should be taking a leadership role in encouraging the exercise of free speech, not in suppressing it.

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Excellent. (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by shoephone on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:38:11 PM EST

Now let's see the other UC faculty boards take the same step. It's about time those in a position of power voiced oppostion to the police- state tactics being used against non-violent protestors, who are, after all, merely exercising their constitutional rights to free expression.

and a child shall lead them (5.00 / 2) (#17)
by NYShooter on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 08:22:57 PM EST

thank you, OWS

Good (none / 0) (#1)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:19:39 PM EST

Maybe Katehi has enough brains left to resign gracefully?

I'd guess she won't go down without a (5.00 / 2) (#12)
by Anne on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 07:25:04 PM EST

fight, but let's see how she handles things on Monday, when I think huge numbers of students will be making their presence and their feelings known.

If there is any silver lining in this cloud, it's how threatened these authority figures are by people peacefully and freely giving voice to their grievances; it's like "uh-oh...they're onto us!" and it scares them that more and more people are rejecting the establishment message.

As lulled into obedience as we've been, dutifully being hectored and guilted into voting for craptastic candidates who abandoned us once they had our votes, year after year after year, these authority figues have been lulled into thinking and believing that this is just how it's supposed to be, and nothing was going to get in the way of their little power and money game.

What a shock it must be to them that we are waking up cranky, huh? And what an eye-opener it must be for the rest of the world to see just how little respect "the greatest democracy in the world" has for its own people.


: I would go up the ladder (5.00 / 3) (#13)
by Zorba on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 07:32:46 PM EST

This is a state university system. Above Katehi is the University of California Board of Regents, and the system-wide President of such. And above them is the Governor of the State of California, Jerry Brown, which funds the system. Given that UC Berkeley also had an over-reaction to their protesters (to say the least), I would say that this goes way beyond just one campus in the state system.

Or maybe she'll come out Monday, (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by Peter G on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 09:30:13 PM EST

speak to the (larger) crowd, acknowledge her past errors, apologize, and endorse their right to protest as part and parcel of the intellectual freedom which a great university necessarily seeks to cultivate.


: That would be (none / 0) (#20)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 09:43:29 PM EST

the most graceful way for her to resign I think, yes.

Who (none / 0) (#3)
by NYShooter on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:44:27 PM EST

advised her.

Teachers don't know about these things. Who did she seek out for advice?


Administrators are a different breed (5.00 / 2) (#4)
by jeffinalabama on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:50:17 PM EST

of cat. Condoleeza Rice, Eisenhower, and Woodrow Wilson all held admin positions...

And all three knew a little bit about wielding aithority.


Advice about setting cops on the protesters? (none / 0) (#5)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:50:44 PM EST

I have no idea. Maybe she's just paranoid and sick?


Seriously, a lot of high administrators (5.00 / 3) (#6)
by jeffinalabama on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:55:55 PM EST

on campuses are tyrants. They don't fear hurting anyone to maintain their position for a few days longer.


: Powertrippin' (none / 0) (#9)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:59:01 PM EST

because she can?

I have no idea, either (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by NYShooter on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:56:20 PM EST

but it would be useful to know.

First, were they local....or Federal?

or, second, did she act alone


I wish I had an answer. (none / 0) (#8)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 06:57:59 PM EST

Maybe she's a friend of Quan?


Like we know (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by NYShooter on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 07:19:05 PM EST

stemming from the Oakland disturbance, there was a National, coordinated PR response. As these flashpoints fan out, sea to shining sea, who, or what, will these administrators seek out for advice?

Is it plausible that every administrator will be on their own?

Seems to me that campuses are naturals for OWS congregation. Many would be a lot friendlier than city parks.


No, I don't think it's plausible (5.00 / 1) (#11)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 07:24:26 PM EST

that every administrator will be on their own.

Authoritarian cowards generally want to know they have the backing of some higher authority figure(s), and are usually frozen with indecision if they don't, in my experience.


Exactly (5.00 / 1) (#14)
by NYShooter on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 08:10:52 PM EST

Then there's another wrinkle.

What will happen if the, for want of a better word I'll just refer to them all as "campuses," they begin forming sub groups within the total group?

I mean, some campuses will take the repressive route, but some may take a reach-out, understanding, enlightened route. And, if the enlightened ones prove to be successful, and flourish, that would be the beginning of the end for the whole Oligarchic system we have today.

Just indulge the fantasy for a moment: half the campuses are run by, let's say, Bernie Sanders, while the other half are run by some Neanderthal like Saxby Chambliss.

Something would have to give.

It could get very, very interesting.


I love the smell (none / 0) (#15)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 08:15:28 PM EST

of subversion in the morning.

It smells like .... victory!

Someday this war's gonna end...

;-)


: The apocalyptic (none / 0) (#16)
by Edger on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 08:17:51 PM EST

NOW!

Sadly, a la this blog (none / 0) (#21)
by Towanda on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 07:20:42 PM EST

those sorts of decisions often are made in close consultation with campus counsel aka campus lawyers.

They seem to come from the bottom half of their law school classes.


Hey, watch it. (none / 0) (#22)
by oculus on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 07:57:48 PM EST

I am betting, based on comments here (none / 0) (#23)
by Towanda on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 08:18:35 PM EST

that TLers graduated in the top half of their classes, law school or otherwise.


That was a pretty generalized condemnation (none / 0) (#24)
by oculus on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 08:28:17 PM EST

of in house counsel for state schools though. Some are quite good. Others--not so much.


Sadly, in many decades (none / 0) (#25)
by Towanda on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 08:32:46 PM EST

I've only met and read about the sort upon whom I base my comment.

It's good to know that they were and are the exception to the rule, according to another. I did not know, though, that you are in academe.


: Not. But represented local (none / 0) (#26)
by oculus on Sun Nov 20, 2011 at 08:34:53 PM EST

campus of state system in many cases, which involved mtg. and contact with staff counsel.

What were those weird weapons the Pigs (none / 0) (#18)
by Mr Natural on Sat Nov 19, 2011 at 09:28:27 PM EST

were brandishing in the video? They looked like a cross between a cartoon rifle and a paint gun.