As the veil of presidential search secrecy settles now over Alcorn State University, I suppose it's time to stop griping about the absolute farce being perpetrated on ASU stakeholders by IHL Commissioner Tom Meredith and consultant Jan Greenwood — who are telling them they'll have "input." Fat chance...
I guess what I keep wondering at, as I read various blogs and editorials, is the unspoken assumption that there was ever any real transparency or power to the people in the past. There seems just a chance under the current plan that we can escape the stranglehold of backroom deals and old-boy networks.