Wichita Eagle, 24 Oct. 2011: "Regents set Timetable for Replacing Wichita State's president"

There needs not to be, and should not be, any KU folks on the committee to select the candidates.  This time we need a new president that is not pre-committed to KU and KU policies, but instead is committed to the best interests of WSU, and will ask for our fair share of the State Board of Regents budget for new building construction, independent of the the Wichita 1.5 Mill Levy, so that Sedgwick County residents are not double taxed uniquely in the state from all other counties.  Nor should he be committed by the selection committee to any policies re sports, as the Board of Regents has no jurisdiction over sports at KU, K-State, WSU, Hays State, Emporia State, or Pittsburg State.  Further, pursuant to Kansas Law, any discussion of policy matters with candidates should be held in open public meeting, not closed meetings in which candidates are committed to policies without public knowledge.  Closed meetings should be for personal matters only.  Nor is the fiction of the difficulty in separating all policy matters from personal matters, sufficient legal rationale as an exception to the law, so as to vitiate the law itself.