Segal addresses the Board of Trustees Sanford Segal, chair of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, spoke to the University's Board of Trustees on May 23. The following is the text of Segal's remarks. This year, the University Faculty Senate has addressed, naturally enough, a variety of faculty concerns, ranging, among others, from computing services to patent policy to the inevitable one of faculty salaries. It has also addressed, equally naturally, issues of deep concern to students, such as the Residential College Commission, or to both students and faculty alike, such as those involving the library, admissions, and sports and recreation. All such discussion, of course, takes place in the context of a changing Rochester, call it re-engineering, Renaissance, initiatives, or strategic plan. I believe such changes were not only desperately needed, but we are repositioning ourselves in a positive way. There is a story, probably apocryphal, about a New York concert given by Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano with Fritz Kreisler playing the violin. Kreisler, ever the romantic, had a tendency occasionally and briefly to lose his place in the music. This happened at this concert and he whispered to Rachmaninoff, "Where are we?" Rachmaninoff, missing not a beat, whispered, "Carnegie Hall." Perhaps Kreisler should have known that Rachmaninoff was born on April Fool's Day. In the Medical School there has been some agitationperhaps that is the best word. But no changes, especially needed ones, come without disturbance. Nevertheless, while things may be improving in this regard, and the Sen ate has been active in trying to facilitate that improvement, care needs to be taken to prevent unintended consequences. | |
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