A Triumphant Day in the Senate Share:
Yesterday evening, the Stanford Faculty Senate met and debated a resolution which sought to create a faculty committee to study the Universityâs relationship with the Hoover Institution. The faculty who proposed the resolution, led by Professor of Comparative Literature David Palumbo-Liu, gave a detailed presentation expressing their concerns, and delivered a litany of charges against current and former Hoover fellows for making what they call âa travesty of honest intellectual debateâ.
The resolution called for an ad hoc âimpartial committee.â As Professor Palumbo-Liu explained, the committee would have a âblank checkâ to study and critique the Hoover Institution and its relationship to Stanford, and to propose reforms. To be clear, the Faculty Senate has absolutely no jurisdiction over Hoover; that authority lies with the President and Trustees. But ignoring the jurisdictional question, we are