Thomas Day

Angered by budget cuts that would eliminate departments and leave scores of faculty members jobless, a majority of San Diego State University professors who gathered for a vote Thursday favored seeking the removal of university President Thomas Day. In an unprecedented meeting of 872 professors, the vote was 55.7% to 42.4% in support of asking the California State University Board of Trustees to declare Day's position vacant and name a replacement. There were 1,175 professors eligible to attend.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas urged the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday to broaden its investigation of the county Probation Department and provide stronger oversight of the troubled agency. Ridley-Thomas' op-ed in the Huffington Post was published amid persistent reports of employee abuse of minor wards and a broken internal affairs unit. "The problems at probation are too great to drop at the feet of a new manager alone," Ridley-Thomas wrote. "The Board of Supervisors has attempted to fix the department over the years through various motions.

Frustration over the small number of nonwhite faculty and staff members at San Diego State University burst into the open Friday, when a special commission of the university's black employees issued a scathing report criticizing President Thomas Day for his lack of imagination and leadership on affirmative action.

Flanked by Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn and other city leaders Friday morning, Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas announced that he was convening a series of community meetings to reduce tensions in the aftermath of the videotaped police beating of a black suspected car thief.

The embattled president of San Diego State University was given qualified support by his bosses Wednesday in the face of a demand by faculty that he be dismissed. California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz alternately supported and chided SDSU President Thomas Day for proposed cutbacks that have brought the system's largest campus to an uproar.

About 470 San Diego State University professors vented their frustrations against university President Thomas Day and his budget-cutting plan Monday in one of the largest gatherings of faculty in the university's history. With all but a handful of votes in opposition, the professors reaffirmed their academic Senate's vote of no-confidence against Day two weeks ago and adopted a resolution to urge the Senate to disavow support of a "deep and narrow" budget-cutting strategy.

Thomas B. Day, whose 17 years as president of San Diego State University have been marked by recent clashes with students and faculty, will step down within the next 18 months, university officials announced Wednesday. California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz said he asked Day to step aside by July, 1996, but not because of faculty complaints.

Please take this letter from fantasyland--a.k.a. the sports pages--and deliver it to Dr. Thomas Day, president of San Diego State University. Dear Tom: Do it. Go ahead and hire Jerry Tarkanian as basketball coach. I have heretofore approached this matter carefully, cautiously and conservatively, just as you are, but I think it is time to acknowledge that this is the right direction for the university and the program. Remember what you said Friday?

Former San Diego State Athletic Director Mary Alice Hill hinted she may take legal action after university president Thomas Day ordered her Tuesday to use her accrued vacation time through Nov. 8, which has been set as her termination date. Tuesday, Hill was to have been briefed by Day on her new duties as assistant to the president. Day had reassigned her to that position Aug. 8, the day he fired Hill as athletic director.

Was the moon full Tuesday? I don't know if I have ever encountered a crazier day in one city's world of fun and games as Tuesday in San Diego. And none of it really had anything to do with the games themselves. This was board-room bizarre. This was hiring and firing and firing and rehiring and reinforcing. This was musical chairs in business suits and ties and, in one case, high heels.

Thomas B. Day, whose 17 years as president of San Diego State University have been marked by recent clashes with students and faculty, will step down within the next 18 months, university officials announced Wednesday. California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz said he asked Day to step aside by July, 1996, but not because of faculty complaints.

There is an uneasy calm these days at San Diego State University, the largest, possibly the most prestigious and certainly in the past year the angriest campus in the Cal State system. The faculty, recovering from a bare-knuckles fight with President Thomas Day over layoffs that were proposed but then rescinded, is willing, somewhat grudgingly, to give credit to the embattled president for finally bringing them into the policy-making fold.

The faculty and president of California State University's most prestigious campus are struggling with two troubling questions that threaten the school's very identity: How can they slice $10 million from San Diego State's budget and still preserve the institution's status in the Cal State system as a campus rich in graduate and research programs?

The embattled president of San Diego State University was given qualified support by his bosses Wednesday in the face of a demand by faculty that he be dismissed. California State University Chancellor Barry Munitz alternately supported and chided SDSU President Thomas Day for proposed cutbacks that have brought the system's largest campus to an uproar.

Angered by budget cuts that would eliminate departments and leave scores of faculty members jobless, a majority of San Diego State University professors who gathered for a vote Thursday favored seeking the removal of university President Thomas Day. In an unprecedented meeting of 872 professors, the vote was 55.7% to 42.4% in support of asking the California State University Board of Trustees to declare Day's position vacant and name a replacement. There were 1,175 professors eligible to attend.

About 470 San Diego State University professors vented their frustrations against university President Thomas Day and his budget-cutting plan Monday in one of the largest gatherings of faculty in the university's history. With all but a handful of votes in opposition, the professors reaffirmed their academic Senate's vote of no-confidence against Day two weeks ago and adopted a resolution to urge the Senate to disavow support of a "deep and narrow" budget-cutting strategy.

The faculty and president of California State University's most prestigious campus are struggling with two troubling questions that threaten the school's very identity: How can they slice $10 million from San Diego State's budget and still preserve the institution's status in the Cal State system as a campus rich in graduate and research programs?

There is an uneasy calm these days at San Diego State University, the largest, possibly the most prestigious and certainly in the past year the angriest campus in the Cal State system. The faculty, recovering from a bare-knuckles fight with President Thomas Day over layoffs that were proposed but then rescinded, is willing, somewhat grudgingly, to give credit to the embattled president for finally bringing them into the policy-making fold.

Please take this letter from fantasyland--a.k.a. the sports pages--and deliver it to Dr. Thomas Day, president of San Diego State University. Dear Tom: Do it. Go ahead and hire Jerry Tarkanian as basketball coach. I have heretofore approached this matter carefully, cautiously and conservatively, just as you are, but I think it is time to acknowledge that this is the right direction for the university and the program. Remember what you said Friday?

Frustration over the small number of nonwhite faculty and staff members at San Diego State University burst into the open Friday, when a special commission of the university's black employees issued a scathing report criticizing President Thomas Day for his lack of imagination and leadership on affirmative action.