October 21, 2005

President of Texas University Suspends Faculty Senate

By PIPER FOGG

The president of Texas A&M University at Kingsville has suspended the campus's 34-member Faculty Senate, a year after the senate voted no confidence in him. The president, Rumaldo Z. Juarez, said he plans to overhaul the senate to make it more of "an advisory body."

Members of the senate have expressed outrage and disappointment at the president's move. Jimmie D. Phaup, a professor of political science, just finished a term as a member of the senate's executive committee and is a

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