An audio recording of a closed-door May meeting captured members of the Colorado State University system's Board of Governors discussing why the board's vice chairman, Joe Blake, should be named as soon as possible as the sole candidate for the post of system chancellor—a post to which he was subsequently appointed. According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the recording also caught Douglas L. Jones, then chairman of the board, urging members to act before the state legislature could force the board to name at least three finalists for top posts.

Mr. Jones was also recorded saying that the legislature's effort to make the process more open was the result of “un-Christian attitudes.” The Coloradoan noted that Paul Weissman, the majority leader of the State House of Representatives and a Democrat, sponsored the House version of the bill. Mr. Weissman, who was raised Jewish, told the…

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