In the first place, many faculty and administrators at Arizona's state universities continue to advocate the positive contributions of a tenure system before the Board of Regents, the state Legislature, and Arizona's citizenry. As tenure remains viable at Arizona's three universities, it should apply to the conditions of employment at the New Campus. That is, they have tenure or a tenure track position at the University of Arizona. Furthermore, any subsequent decision to re-define or revise the conditions of employment at the New Campus cannot retroactively apply to those already under contract. Again, I congratulate Ms. Regan on a splendid article.
Classy jokes are hard to come by.
The issue of unsafe Mexican trucks on U.S. highways may be even worse then Jeff imagines. I would suppose he wrote this piece under the impression that, at least in theory, Mexican trucks would be required to comply with U.S. standards. Those assurances, however, have turned out to be an empty promise. Mexican truckers will be exempt from the mandatory drug testing requirements which apply to all U.S. truckers as of January 1, 1996. The drug testing issue is probably academic anyway.