By Marjan MacPhee
Arizona Daily Wildcat
April 10, 1998

Likins 'walks the walk'

To the Editor:

After reading the headlines in the April 7 Wildcat ("Likins takes blame in CatCard controversy") and Arizona Daily Star, I must admit Peter Likins is my kind of guy. We all know that we should all take responsibility for our actions and take risks. All the management babble says try new things, take risks and if they don't work, no big deal. Yeah right. The word that comes to my mind is "historically." Historically,a when someone (usually not me) has taken a risk that didn't work out, all hell breaks loose. This whole university is seated in that term "historically." Wonder what is going to happen now, with this new guy, who takes responsibility, takes risks and doesn't hide if things don't work perfectly.

Talk about walking the walk.

Hooray, we have a role model and the term "historically" may be taken out of the management arena as our U of A really does becomes a more forward-looking and-acting university!

Marjan MacPhee
Adminstrative Assistant
Engineering and Mines Department