I'm tired. This is boring. What time is it?

Yours truly tuned in via Zoom to the meeting yesterday of the systemwide Assembly of Academic Senate. On the agenda were 1) changes in the procedures for faculty discipline (basically speeding them up) to meet the Regents' new requirements; 2) removing "affirmative action" from the name and wording of a Senate committee; and 3) demanding policies that would require notifying anyone whose name was requested by the feds.

All of these items might seem likely to provoke controversy. But the first two were passed overwhelmingly with no real discussion. The third was the product of a series of Assembly meetings that modified the proposed resolution. But at this meeting, there was a motion to table the resolution, i.e., have no discussion and no vote on the substance. There was also a strong vote to table. And the meeting ended early.