Editor,
Thank you for publishing Fernanda Ferreira's letter Monday complaining about the Bursar's Office's caustic warning to graduate students.
When I responded to the bursar's threats of disenrollment - with a disclaimer that I might not be disenrolled ... please check with someone else - with, "Is it so hard to check on our assistantships before you send out threats?" I was greeted with Joe Eggleston's wonderful response: "Is it so hard for you to understand what you read? In the e-mail you received, GAs and TAs are mentioned. If you can't understand it, give me a call and I will help you."
After some wrangling among myself, several administrators and Eggleston, I received no apology and no sign of improvement. Eggleston only saw fit to leave the argument at: "I took Mr. Flood's e-mail as a personal criticism against me and our office."
I've heard nothing since. Call me crazy, but I thought the point of working at a university was producing a better education, and not protecting the crazy bureaucracy and its little fiefdoms. I've been to several other schools, and this isn't a problem elsewhere.
Why not fix this, Mr. Eggleston? If you are making changes, then please let us know. Call me a dreamer, but I look forward to the day that I only get threats from UNM when I do something incorrectly.
Andrew Flood
English graduate student
