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From: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: 1990 Elections - Board of Directors
Message-ID: <3802@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 22:28:16 GMT
References: <296@usenix.UUCP> <2206@prune.bbn.com>
Reply-To: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt)
Organization: City College Of New York
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In article <2206@prune.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
:>  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.

: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$
That was my reaction also.  Perhaps my thoughts were in a little more
colorful language.  Such a nomination reflects one of two things -- a
severe lack of qualified candidates willing to be nominated, or desire
to keep close control of the organization.  Since there was a fuss
about the nominations last year I would say that the whole operation
of the nominating committee this year reflects bad judgement.  The
board should have listened to Kolstad.
-- 
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