New commission is redundant, wasteful
To address the grave budget situation of the university, the UC Board of Regents decided to create the new UC Commission on the Future. This is a farcical attempt to replace the defunct Committee on Long Range Planning, a committee already in existence. How are the two different and who will actually have the authority to create policies that address the problems of this ailing university? It seems to me that this new commission is a wasteful reduplication of an already existing body unable to meet the very responsibility the regents bestowed for themselves. Let’s not reinvent the wheel here, regents. We have a university to save.
Rene Tiongquico
Graduate student, education
Pherson right about President Obama
I got a chance to read Alex Pherson’s column on Barack Obama, “Integrity of Obama’s actions falls with approval rating at 50 percent” (Nov. 3), and thought that he did a good job at documenting Obama’s current standing as president. What surprised me even more is that he had the fortitude to look at the facts and not just write another syrupy, one-sided, liberal, toe-the-Democratic-Party-line piece of garbage, which is what I would expect from a college newspaper. I do not even consider myself to be a Republican or a conservative. I’m just a middle-of-the-line independent citizen who thinks things are not going so well in this country these days.
So I hope Alex keeps up the good work and says it as he sees it!
Richard Rankin
Alumnus, class of 1979