PATIENCE, FORTITUDE, SUNLIGHT. I sent a less incendiary version of my description of the administration's space-grab to the Northern Star, which ran the letter on Tuesday. The Faculty Senate met on Wednesday. Apparently I am not the only unhappy camper in Liberal Arts, although I remain one of the more vocal.

In Thursday morning's electronic mail is a message from the chairman of the University's Resources, Space, and Budget Committee, which has asked Associate Dean William Minor, who may not be the real villain of this story, to explain what the plan entails and raise the questions I brought up in my letter, as well as questions that came up in Faculty Senate.

The space-grab may still be implemented, but if it is, it will be done by the book.