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Editorial:
The Daily's presidential pick
Issue date: 5/12/08 Section: Opinion
The candidate that we feel best fits with what SJSU needs in its next president is Jon Whitmore. He comes from a larger university (almost 30,000 students) than the other two candidates, has a huge amount of experience, values athletics, has experience in building stronger academic aptitude into athletic programs, wants to make the study abroad program more accessible to lower-income students and has raised more than $1 billion dollars for Texas Tech. And he has no plan to overturn the blood drive suspension.
He also seems ready for the job. He seems confident that he can do the job, that the execution of presidential duties would not even be a question for him.
We realize that Whitmore is not perfect. As of December, one month before Whitmore's contract ended, Texas Tech was put on accreditation probation for not satisfying one out of 87 criteria, he's leaving that university after five years and at 63 years old, we have to hope that he wants to push back the traditional retirement age of 65.
Whomever we get as president next year, we are sure that he or she will do a good job, which we will be happy to tell the campus about. Of course, if the president does something wrong, we'll tell the campus about that too.
He also seems ready for the job. He seems confident that he can do the job, that the execution of presidential duties would not even be a question for him.
We realize that Whitmore is not perfect. As of December, one month before Whitmore's contract ended, Texas Tech was put on accreditation probation for not satisfying one out of 87 criteria, he's leaving that university after five years and at 63 years old, we have to hope that he wants to push back the traditional retirement age of 65.
Whomever we get as president next year, we are sure that he or she will do a good job, which we will be happy to tell the campus about. Of course, if the president does something wrong, we'll tell the campus about that too.
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