4:00 p.m. OT/PT faculty whom I have seldom seen at faculty meetings filter in to pack the meeting-room. May we anticipate self-interested, self-serving colleagues will populate meetings to come? Will faculty repeat the 25 March 2014 bum-rushing in future meetings? Will bum-rushing faculty continue to object to electronic ballots that negate or reduce stratagems and subterfuges?
4:04 p.m. The President opens with minutes. The minutes are accepted. Thus ended the suspense. Everyone now could
4:05 p. m. The President proceeded to another gratuitous report. Thank God/god/gods that such reports are not sent via email. Better to waste faculty time with transient factlets & factoids.
4:09 p. m. Then The Vice President provided information that might better adorn a memorandum. The pedagogical Scam of the Month, it appears, is "experiential learning." Branding, marketing, and shibboleths rained upon faculty again. Multiply the length of the report [5-6 minutes] by perhaps 50 attendees and divide by 60 to see how many hours of faculty time & attention we are pissing away every meeting.
4:16 p. m. The Chair of the Senate then intoned about, among other things, electronic voting. How proponents of the new graduation requirement kept from hissing at the prospect of an outbreak of democracy I know not.
4:20 p.m. As tradition dictates, a member of the Curriculum Committee misstated the motion regarding degrees at the OT School. Faculty, perhaps still snoring from earlier inaction, did not notice.
Adjourned at 4:23 p.m. without further incident. I got no chance to use my finger puppets to illustrate any points I might have made [see "I'm Sorry" from 4 April 2014].
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