Wish I Could Buy Put Options on Rhetoric/Composition

Regarding the split of the English department, a reader writes:

Thanks for spreading the word. You could also add the fact that there is absolutely no demand whatsoever for the BA degree in rhetoric/composition that they plan to create. There is no rational reason to create such a degree program.

Another reader writes:

The division is one of the most cynical and ill-advised moves I've witnessed yet. The very fact it is happening at the last minute and secretly (with claims it is all above board) tells the whole story. Hickey splits the college and cripples the humanities. CAH claims it can't afford a ream of paper--and then suddenly we have a new department with no majors and hiring plans galore…All chiefs supervising a few Indians, to what purpose?

All sad--since the people who are authorizing it are all going to be gone when the place looks like Brazil (the movie) or Mad Max country.

If only they would quit saying things like strategic plan and goals. They lie and lie and lie.

To use the idiot language of a UCF administrator, this is a win/win. Heads they win; tails we lose.*

* I stole this phrase from someone, possibly Paul Krugman. He was writing about the executives at big banks...I don’t even need to say it, do I?