EDITORIAL: Questions remain

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Posted: 6/18/09

Over the course of the past two weeks, changes have happened in odd sequence, with unusual rapidity. Where bureaucratic tape should have insulated, it has been cut away. Where events could have been described clearly, there has been obfuscation at best, but more often silence has been the only response.

Given the nature of former president Elsa A. Murano's exit from the stage, the enormity of the shared services proposal passed this Monday and the sequence of these events, we believe it is reasonable to ask that the following questions be answered, by those who are knowledgeable enough to not be surprised by recent developments:

Why was President Murano paid to not sue A&M, if it was she who resigned? Did she have grounds to sue that are not being made available to the public? If the Board of Regents was prepared to discipline or remove her on Monday, why did it hire her back as a professor and grant her status?

How did the Board produce an interim president so quickly? Why is the Board determined to spend only six months in searching for a new president, if a year's search produced our last president, with whom they obviously have not been impressed?