David Schmidly "gets it". Does the faculty?

"I get it."

I thought the President of the United States, Barak Obama
delivered the line more convincingly, and a few days earlier.

But I digress.


UNM President David Schmidly.

He says he "gets it";

he needs to listen to stakeholders.

Do you really suppose that David Schmidly
got where he is, by "listening" to stakeholders?

Never mind a lifetime of ignoring stakeholders;
he promises he is going to change. From now on,
he is "going to listen" to the infernal whining
of the great unwashed.

Right, and a pint of Häagen-Dazs serves four.





David Schmidly is an oligarch.
( wikilink refresher course)

Oligarchs rarely give a rat's ass about
anything except their position
in the oligarchy.


Oligarchs do things their way.


Oligarchs are decision makers.
They exist in order to make increasingly important decisions
by themselves.

He is not going to change.



The faculty at UNM have asked for an audit.

They want an impartial audit of the administration of
the public trust and treasure at the UNM.

Fat chance.

David Schmidly,
like APS Supt Winston Brooks,
will avoid an audit with the willing
support of the executive branch
of the Oligarchy.

Winston Brooks, in his effort
to avoid an honest audit, has the
support of the APS School Board.


David Schmidly, in his effort to avoid an honest audit,
will have the willing support of the Board of Regents,

who are every bit as loathe to an audit, as Schmidly,

and who themselves will enjoy the willing support of the
Governor of the great State of New Mexico,
Bill Richardson, apparently.

It is simple.
There is either going to be an audit, or not.

If there is an audit,
it will reveal what an audit of any oligarchy will reveal;

the community best interests will have been sacrificed
in favor of the interests of oligarchy.

Auditors will find that the leadership of the UNM has
built the oligarchy, at the expense of the university.

The faculty "wins" if they can get the audit discussed
out loud and in public.

If the subject of an honest audit doesn't get discussed
out loud, in public and, rather immediately,

David Schmidly and the good ol' boys will have won.

News cycles being what they are,
the faculty at UNM has about three days
to get David Schmidly to admit that he heard the demand.



photos Mark Bralley