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vatusay wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:50 amWhy do it in QC?
local media exposure or at least I hope that is the case
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Just read that SIU president Randy Dunn is stepping down.
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leatherneckcountry wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 4:44 pmJust read that SIU president Randy Dunn is stepping down.
Sounds like it is a mutual-separation agreement. Just this week, the SIU-Carbondale Faculty Senate voted 25-1 on a "No Confidence" statement.

SIU President Randy Dunn to step down.
From The Southern Illinoisan:
https://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu/ ... -top-story
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wiu712 wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:00 pm
leatherneckcountry wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 4:44 pmJust read that SIU president Randy Dunn is stepping down.
Sounds like it is a mutual-separation agreement. Just this week, the SIU-Carbondale Faculty Senate voted 25-1 on a "No Confidence" statement.
Yeah..."mutual separation" with a $215k severance and a $100k/year position at SIUE. :roll:
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ST_Lawson wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:27 pm
wiu712 wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:00 pm
leatherneckcountry wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 4:44 pmJust read that SIU president Randy Dunn is stepping down.
Sounds like it is a mutual-separation agreement. Just this week, the SIU-Carbondale Faculty Senate voted 25-1 on a "No Confidence" statement.
Yeah..."mutual separation" with a $215k severance and a $100k/year position at SIUE. :roll:
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sealhall74 wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:48 am
ST_Lawson wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:27 pm
wiu712 wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:00 pm

Sounds like it is a mutual-separation agreement. Just this week, the SIU-Carbondale Faculty Senate voted 25-1 on a "No Confidence" statement.
Yeah..."mutual separation" with a $215k severance and a $100k/year position at SIUE. :roll:
Small town Illinois kid (he went to Westmer HS in Mercer Country) striking gold in his golden years. My roomie at Seal for last two quarters was from Westmer.
Where was Seal located
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leatherneckcountry wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 7:53 am
sealhall74 wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:48 am
ST_Lawson wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:27 pm

Yeah..."mutual separation" with a $215k severance and a $100k/year position at SIUE. :roll:
Small town Illinois kid (he went to Westmer HS in Mercer Country) striking gold in his golden years. My roomie at Seal for last two quarters was from Westmer.
Where was Seal located
Where its always been, just south of Union. I am seriously thinking about getting one of the those big donor bricks for the "Men of Seal Hall". I was only there for a year before heading off to the the Army but it was a special place. It was a culture probably similar to that of a Greek fraternity house. I also spent some time in Higgins and Washington (or Jefferson, cant remember which) and they were like hotels. You slept and brushed your teeth there but that's about all you can remember about them.

Make that Lincoln instead of Jefferson. lol Like I said, so ordinary you dont remember much about them. After getting to my first job after graduating, I was sent out on a business/conference trip to LA. The conference was held on the UCLA campus. The best housing arrangement I could get was a dorm on campus as most of the hotels were booked solid.. I remember more about that Dorm stay even though I was only there for five days. In was summer time and the UCLA women's volleyball team was staying on the same floor as me. All were about 6'3 or better and blonde and tanned and not afraid to go in to the bathroom wrapped in nothing but a towel.
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leatherneckcountry wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 7:53 amWhere was Seal located ?
Seal Hall is still standing. It's main occupant now is University Housing & Dining offices. It is a three-story building just north of Tillman Hall.
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wiu712 wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:06 am
leatherneckcountry wrote: Sun Jul 15, 2018 7:53 amWhere was Seal located ?
Seal Hall is still standing. It's main occupant now is University Housing & Dining offices. It is a three-story building just north of Tillman Hall.
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We now have a brick. I dont know when it will be there, but look for one like this:

Dedicated to all the men
of Seal Hall. Our home
away from home was truly
one to write home about.
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My next home after Seal was at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. My barracks there made Seal Hall look like the Taj Mahal. :lol:

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Update: I did a little research this PM to see how Fort Leonard Wood has changed over the years. It was a big engineering training center when I was there back in the 70s and it still is today. Big difference I see now is that you have training detachments from the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps also engaged in engineering training there. Makes total sense. It is too costly to have that expensive training equipment spread all over the country and maintained separately by each branch of service. Put it in one location. Bring all the military dump truck drivers, crane operators, pavement specialists, ... to you. This is basically what the State of Illinois is going to have to do to solve their public higher education woes. I.E., let each school concentrate on core education programs with as little overlap as possible. Not easy but it can be done over a period of 10 to 15 years. So we need a BRAC (Base Realignment and Closing) for education. Not sure about the closing part. I was stationed at one place (Fort Monmouth, NJ) that was completely shut down as a result of the BRAC with about 6000 civilian jobs either eliminated or moved elsewhere. Today they are trying to revive the area into a "Technology Center" or something like that. Long road ahead for them. Change is hard but inevitable. Sometimes good things come out of it. Some dude got a complete bubble structure for his soccer facility for $40K. We should have been in the bidding for that one. BTW, that "old FBI Building" they talk about in the link below was next door to the barracks I stayed in when I was there for USMA Prep School back in 1975. I think the opening picture in the link below is the actually barracks I stayed in. It was about a quarter mile from the barracks to the front gate and there was a pub deli/pub right there. They had NY style deli sandwiches that were about 5 inches thick filled with pastrami, corned beef, turkey, ham, etc. Between the end of study hours (10pm) and before lights out (11pm), we washed many of those down with a mug or two of beer during my year long stay there. ;)

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