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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: 1990 Elections - Board of Directors
Message-ID: <2206@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 12 Dec 89 20:00:53 GMT
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>  The [nominating]
>committee's charge was to ensure that there were at least as many suitable
>candidates nominated as there are positions on the Board.

Hmm... is this back-pedaling or semantic games?  From the minutes of the
Baltimore board meeting:
    \fBNominating Committee Suggestion\fP
    .in .5i
    .sp .5
    Kolstad expressed his concerns that reports from the nominating
    committee can be construed by the membership as endorsements rather
    than slot-filling.  
    He suggested that the committee process all
    valid nomination petitions and produce timely lists of all
    legal candidates in its reports to the membership on elections.
    Nemeth said that if this is so, then what is the purpose of having
    a nominating committee?  All the Board present, except Kolstad,
    agreed that the nominating committee should be an endorser, and that
    the formal charge to the committeee is to find enough eligible 
    people (decent candidates) to fill the slots.
    .in 0
The formal charge is to find decent candidates, but apparently the informal
charge was to get people the board liked?

For the record, IT WAS WRONG for the nominating committee to pick its
own chairman as a nominee.
	/r$
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