Some of our colleagues have had individual communication with many of you, who will understand that I cannot be as specific about our situation in an open forum as they may have been in private. It goes without saying that we are not popular in certain quarters of this institution. Since we received the news early in the morning of 13 March, I am using Roman counting in considering today Day 13. The graduate dean was presented, in fact, with documentation impeaching his estimate of the department's scholarly productivity and his reading of the evaluation of the department's graduate program. You can, however, help maintain the pressure.
Public victories have little to do with the back rooms of power.
There have been no public statements whatsoever from the upper administration. Summer is coming. The usual suspects scatter. It may explain its lack of response to any of several provocations. The battle, thus, is far from won.