As the Florida Legislature moves into its final weeks and begins wrapping up its 60 session, a quick review of Senate panels which confirm appointments reveals that FAMU BOT Chair Challis Lowe's name is not among those currently being considered this week. The Senate Higher Education Committee will take up appointments to the boards of trustees at FAU and USF this week, while the Ethics and Elections Committee will take up appointments trusttee positions at FAMU (Mc Williams), FSU, and the FL Board of Governors this week. Both committees will consider a "slew" of of appointments to colleges andd university boards this week. Mrs. Lowe's isn't among them.
It appears that the Senate Higher Ed Committee considers appointments made to boards by the Fl Board of Governors, while the Ethics and Elections Committee considers appointments made by the Governors office. We are told that, next weeks is probably the last week of committee meetings.
If the Senate dosn't approve her nomination this session Mrs. Lowe will become a two-time loser and not eligible for reappointment. The Legislature is scheduled to adjourn on May 4th.
Has Challis lost her mind?
There is a GOD! Hallelujah!
ReplyDeleteChallis Lowe is a loser any way you look at it...two times or not.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened at Virginia Tech on Monday makes our problems seem so insignificant.
ReplyDelete"Lowe is not on Senate agenda"
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Insignificant? Speak for yourself.
ReplyDeleteThat's right Lowe is not insignificant. She doesn't have the sense that God gave a Congolese Mountain gorrilla and she is on a losing team therefore she's a god damn LOSER!!
ReplyDeleteBetter days are indeed coming; however, in today's social climate, it's hard to rejoice about Lowe's non-reappointment in the midst of another university's overwhelming tragedy.
ReplyDeleteThis is indeed a national tragedy!
Yes, what happened at VT is a tradegy but what this woman and her friends on our current administration is our personal tradegy. These people were willing to hand over FAMU on a silver platter. If they were allowed to do so, would that not have been a tradegy in our own rights?
ReplyDeleteGentlemen, please!
ReplyDeleteFrom blogs.tampabay.com/schools:
ReplyDeleteSenate to Lowe: "The great Russian runaround"
The board that oversees FAMU appears headed for new leadership.The state Senate is unlikely to confirm Trustees Chairwoman Challis Lowe for another term on the bitterly divided Board of Trustees, opening the door for a new chair and a swing in the board's balance of power.
State Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville, told the St. Petersburg Times Tuesday his committee will dedicate the entirety of its last meeting next week to issues of campus security - in the wake of shootings at Virginia Tech - and won't have time to deal with executive appointments. Oelrich chairs the higher education committee, one of two committees that must confirm Lowe in order for her to continue serving. Without such approval, Lowe's term on the board will end when the legislative session concludes May 4.
Lowe, who is an executive vice president for Dollar General Corp., was out of the country Tuesday and could not be reached for comment. But the decision by key senators to not schedule her for confirmation hearings all but ensures she will fade from power without a potentially messy fight, or more negative headlines for an already reeling FAMU.
Said one high-ranking Senate staffer: Lowe is getting "the great Russian runaround."
- Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler and Ron Matus
Lowe is getting "the great Russian runaround."
ReplyDeleteShe is getting exactly what she deserves!
3:46--Jesus Christ! How cold and callous and heartless can you be? Lowe's reappointment or non-reappointment and all that is happening at our university pales in comparison to the carnage at VTech, no matter what kind of dire straits we are in. My goodness, what happenind there does not take away from what what is happening at our university, but at the moment, it still seems rather small, whether it is or not, it still seems that way. What kind of boob-head are you to not acknowledge that our problems at the moment cannot be set aside for a moment of acknowledging the severity of VTech's tragedy in comparison to our own debacles? You sure must be some kind of insignificant person to not know what insignificance really means in the larger context fo things. You're simply hopeless. You have my pity.
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ReplyDeleteNo you listen. the VT massacare is a very sad tragedy.
However this is RATLLERNATION, and ON THIS web, we like to discuss and dedicate ourselves to things concerning FAMU. There are umpteen VT dedicated websites to this tradegy where we can grieve and express our sentiments. I suggest you go to one of them if you feel like it's appropriate.
Respectfully, Hubba that.
ReplyDeleteI will be Confirmed, and with tooth and nail i will destroy everything that is famu. To better serve the higher and more prestigious education of Floria State University.
ReplyDeleteChairwoman Challis lowe said...
ReplyDeleteI will be Confirmed, and with tooth and nail i will destroy everything that is famu. To better serve the higher and more prestigious education of Floria State University.
4/18/2007 1:59 PM
You folks are really pitiful!
Rattler Nation may need to come to an end, cuz some of you posters are juvenile and sophmoric.
8:51--What side of the bed did you wake up on, boob-head. Damn, can't folks express two seconds worth of damn condolences here. There's enough stuff here to ride to Jamaica on a horse's back and then some. You gone get your gripe on, but what you need to do is get that steel arrow out of your heart, and replace it with a real, live, pumping one. In short order the VTech news will no longer dominate the news. Is it such an imposition that folks a couple words. You have GOT to be an ornery mf, to say the least. Damn. Obviously you've never experienced anything in your perfect life except happiness and cheer. Boob-head.
ReplyDeleteIt's so true, "What goes around, comes around." Thank God for keeping watch over FAMU!
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