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CALL TO ACTION: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
My brothers, my sisters,

I will be brief. It is time to direct your e-mails to the addresses below. This is the UAB Faculty Senate. Tell them, respectfully but passionately, why you believe in UAB and have no confidence in Ray Watts as its president. You know what to say. We need to see a vote of No Confidence in Ray L. Watts on December 9th.

Some of these people are our allies. Do not badger or insult. You know what to do.
If you know any of these people, IF YOU ARE THEIR STUDENTS, make the note heartfelt and personal.

This is important.

Chair: Chad Epps
cepps@uab.edu

Chair-Elect: Alecia Gross agross@uab.edu

Past-Chair: Michael Froelich froelich@uab.edu

Secretary: Pam Paustian paustian@uab.edu

Parliamentarian: Pat Higginbottom phiggin@uab.edu

Susan Key susankey@uab.edu

Jamey Worrell worrellj@uab.edu

Philip Musa musa@uab.edu

Jeanne Hutchison hutchiso@uab.edu

Gitendra Uswatte guswatte@uab.edu

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Xiangqin Cui xcui@uab.edu

Beth Brown elbrown@uab.edu

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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Bump
12-02-2014 01:19 PM
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The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Let's do it... Time to shine. We have the right.
12-02-2014 01:22 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Need to sticky this thread.
12-02-2014 01:24 PM
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I quoted the OP in the "write...now" post in the stickies
12-02-2014 01:26 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
For the record, the bastard didn't "fail"...Watts did exactly what he set out to do! Kill our football program, cripple UAB athletics as a whole, & cast a shadow of sorrow over an entire institution and city.
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(12-02-2014 01:24 PM)braish Wrote:  Need to sticky this thread.

Done.
12-02-2014 01:29 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Condensed email addresses for those of us that need it:
cepps@uab.edu
agross@uab.edu
froelich@uab.edu
paustian@uab.edu
phiggin@uab.edu
susankey@uab.edu
worrellj@uab.edu
musa@uab.edu
hutchiso@uab.edu
guswatte@uab.edu
mjjessee@uab.edu
knightdc@uab.edu
mblair@uab.edu
warnerv@uab.edu
briank@uab.edu
slpmusic@uab.edu
danielma@uab.edu
czhang02@uab.edu
hyeyoung@uab.edu
sraut@uab.edu
ebrad@uab.edu
nsouccar@uab.edu
ccfu@uab.edu
dgivan@uab.edu
spezzini@uab.edu
kgurley@uab.edu
jroy@uab.edu
benelson@uab.edu
rscripa@uab.edu
moradi@uab.edu
anry@uab.edu
taherian@uab.edu
bogard@uab.edu
khearld@uab.edu
lhearld@uab.edu
johnhurt@uab.edu
dchaplin@uab.edu
jmwyss@uab.edu
ybchen@uab.edu
vlad@uab.edu
dschneid@uab.edu
esztul@uab.edu
jilld@uab.edu
phiggin@uab.edu
warriner@uab.edu
mcnamara@uab.edu
eunder@uab.edu
jsul3rd@uab.edu
nicholas@uab.edu
klgamble@uab.edu
brunner@uab.edu
cfalkson@uab.edu
ivetter@uab.edu
babecker@uab.edu
cdr18@uab.edu
sfogger@uab.edu
gmillig@uab.edu
sylviae@uab.edu
tthan@uab.edu
cbus@uab.edu
loop@uab.edu
twkraft@uab.edu
xcui@uab.edu
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12-02-2014 01:40 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
My email to all senate members:

Esteemed UAB Faculty Senate members,

I won't bore you with a long diatribe on the importance of UAB football or athletics. I'm writing you, because it ALL matters to me.

I'm a 2 time graduate from UAB: undergraduate and doctoral. I'm a longtime member of the NAS. I am a member/donor of/to the Blazer Boosters. ALL UAB athletics & academics matter to me.

I'm an active duty member of the USAF. I've always been stationed away from Alabama, so athletics are a way I can stay connected to my alma mater, and specifically football and men's basketball. If Dr. Watts and/or the UA BoT decide to "kill" UAB football (which will undoubtedly spill over into other athletics/marching band, etc.), you can certainly count on me no longer donating to the above causes anymore. Dr. Watts and every member of the BoT will have chosen a short-sighted and malignantly harmful path for UAB. They have a responsibility to equitably uphold this university, her academic programs, and her athletics. Some things cannot be measured by dollars in the black, as this argument has been painted. Were that true, why has so much money been funneled to UAT's campus improvements in non-reveue generating ways, i.e. baseball upgrades, frat houses, waterfalls in locker rooms, etc.? Some things are important to a university, her student body, and alumni, whether they turn a profit or not.

I ask that you all seriously consider a vote of "No Confidence" pertaining to Dr. Watts' role in any action that leads to either dismantling or downgrading UAB football and subsequent other athletics, band, etc. that will assuredly occur resultant to such actions. Should this happen, you can COUNT on my money going elsewhere, to my other alma mater's: the University of Florida and Indiana University. They both maintain athletics and medical academics not under threat from a puppet president and an inequitably represented Board of Trustees.


With integrity and sincerity,

--
Maj R. Kyle Hodgen, DNP, CRNA, ACNP, NC, USAF
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12-02-2014 02:04 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Would contacting the Deans help? I know they aren't on the Senate but they need to understand the attack on football is an attack on undergrad.
12-02-2014 02:07 PM
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Done
12-02-2014 02:12 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Without betraying any confidences, it'd be interesting to hear about any responses...good, or bad, and what the split is.
12-02-2014 02:18 PM
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(12-02-2014 02:18 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Without betraying any confidences, it'd be interesting to hear about any responses...good, or bad, and what the split is.

Well, here's one:

"Hello Kyle!!
So excellent to receive an email from you. I remember you quite fondly from your courses….you were an excellent student. Hope all is going well for you! I am not sure what action the Faculty Senate might take, but I am the Senate Liaison for the School of .... I will be sure to take your email with me on Tuesday – our next Faculty Senate Meeting."
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
I am with you, but if we drive out (and I hope we do) this traitor watts, won't little bear just put a bigger piece of crap in his place?
I just believe all energy must be directed at getting out from under the BOT as quickly as possible. Once that is done, we can turn our attention to re-establishing our athletic programs. This is a 20 year setback folks. Make no mistake about it. 20 years.
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(12-02-2014 02:35 PM)jodyhaskins Wrote:  I am with you, but if we drive out (and I hope we do) this traitor watts, won't little bear just put a bigger piece of crap in his place?

Then we fight again.
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(12-02-2014 02:35 PM)jodyhaskins Wrote:  I am with you, but if we drive out (and I hope we do) this traitor watts, won't little bear just put a bigger piece of crap in his place?

Hence I think reform of the BOT is required first. Change the governance. Then force out Watts and get someone we want and have actual power to influence.
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The presidents before Watts were nothing like him. The next one is not guaranteed to be spineless coward.
12-02-2014 02:38 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
If this pressure manages to make a change happen, then they won't repeat the same thing over again. See: UAH
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I just emailed my letter to all. Thankfully GN will not see it.
12-02-2014 02:47 PM
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RE: The Failure of Ray Watts: No Confidence
Another response (and it was forwarded to all faculty senate members by the author):

"Anybody who thinks you can’t overestimate the importance of “branding” should have been ousted long ago (along with the consultants who ginned up the statement)."
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