The Minaret’s Diversity Issue (19 November) was a multi-faceted panorama, as revealing as a thick textbook.
Nearly a year has gone by since Bill Maxwell, the Times columnist, first tried and failed to secure an interview with President Vaughn.
Subsequently, the University hired the two candidates for tenure who are named on Page 3.
Over the past 30 years since the Benjamin case, there may (or may not) have been other tenure track African Americans.
But none of them ever got tenure.
Up to the present day, not one.
Yet a plurality of your 19 Nov. commentators, including UT’s senior administrators, turned their backs on this salient fact.
For them, things are just fine.
This University deserves better.
George F. Botjer
Professor, Geography and History