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Hidden Faculty?

Well, the figures make one tend
to believe that there are faculty
members hiding somewhere who
don't have any students, or the
Provost's Office could be correct in
saying that they come and go so
quickly that it is impossible to keep
track. Maybe we just don't have
1100 faculty members. It's all very
confusing. Especially if you're
looking for an education.
Peekaboo, I see you.

Perhaps a solution would be to
limit "education" to simply
running this gauntlet for four years
under the assumption that the
degree is the most important thing
and will still be recognized as
negotiable currency upon
graduation. Perhaps the solution is
to limit enrollment until someone
(Vincent II?) has taken stock of the
situation and decided that the
degree is not the important thing
but rather the quality of the
education. And perhaps then
people will see that ultimately their
protests are being blunted when
they attack expansion. It is after all
only one variable in the problem of
attaining an education.