Letter to the Editor: Centre Daily Times.
Written by Dr Al Soyster, former department head at Penn State, and Dean of the College of Engineering at Northeastern.
"Penn State trustees continue to retaliate On Feb. 27 the Penn State board of trustees’ nominating subcommittee reviewed the qualifications of candidates seeking approval to be on the ballot in the upcoming alumni trustee election. Candidate approval by the nominating subcommittee is required by the revised and controversial July 2024 bylaws. For the first time ever, a candidate was disapproved — incumbent Barry Fenchak.
This, of course, is no surprise. Our board has censured Barry, discontinued his social privileges and planned a vote to expel him only to have Centre County Judge Brian Marshall censure our board for obvious retaliation. Judge Brian Marshall said, “Allowing his removal would recast a shadow over the financial operations of the defendants to the detriment of every Penn State stakeholder except those at the very top of PSU’s hierarchy.” In the same court order, Marshall said, “The Court has been presented with credible and, in many instances uncontroverted, evidence that Plaintiff (Barry) has been the subject to ongoing incidents of retaliation by Defendants ...”
The board’s hubris in denying a ballot position for incumbent Fenchak wreaks of further retaliation. Is our board so clueless and arrogant to ignore the gist of the judge’s ruling? What is so disheartening is that no one has worked harder than Barry to address our obvious budget woes ($100 million budget deficits, potential campus closures) and declining prestige (ranked last in Big 10 and 184/206 in U.S. News Best Value Universities.) Fenchak has consistently sought data and asked questions about financial and academic matters: a true “disruptor” challenging the status quo. Given our university’s woes, we need more Barrys, not fewer."
Read more at: https://centredaily.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article301169094.html#storylink=cpy
Written by Dr Al Soyster, former department head at Penn State, and Dean of the College of Engineering at Northeastern.
"Penn State trustees continue to retaliate On Feb. 27 the Penn State board of trustees’ nominating subcommittee reviewed the qualifications of candidates seeking approval to be on the ballot in the upcoming alumni trustee election. Candidate approval by the nominating subcommittee is required by the revised and controversial July 2024 bylaws. For the first time ever, a candidate was disapproved — incumbent Barry Fenchak.
This, of course, is no surprise. Our board has censured Barry, discontinued his social privileges and planned a vote to expel him only to have Centre County Judge Brian Marshall censure our board for obvious retaliation. Judge Brian Marshall said, “Allowing his removal would recast a shadow over the financial operations of the defendants to the detriment of every Penn State stakeholder except those at the very top of PSU’s hierarchy.” In the same court order, Marshall said, “The Court has been presented with credible and, in many instances uncontroverted, evidence that Plaintiff (Barry) has been the subject to ongoing incidents of retaliation by Defendants ...”
The board’s hubris in denying a ballot position for incumbent Fenchak wreaks of further retaliation. Is our board so clueless and arrogant to ignore the gist of the judge’s ruling? What is so disheartening is that no one has worked harder than Barry to address our obvious budget woes ($100 million budget deficits, potential campus closures) and declining prestige (ranked last in Big 10 and 184/206 in U.S. News Best Value Universities.) Fenchak has consistently sought data and asked questions about financial and academic matters: a true “disruptor” challenging the status quo. Given our university’s woes, we need more Barrys, not fewer."
Read more at: https://centredaily.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article301169094.html#storylink=cpy
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