I will not be doing these posts every day, but I will be doing them on occasion, say, several times a week.

“Let me think about this a bit,” Glorious Day said.  “I seem to recall Elektra did a piece of this, before she rose into the Upper House.”

“Quality of industry?” Elektra asked.  “Start with the industrial organizations.  Then out of fairness give other people their say.  Go with the majority of the faculty committee in charge of academic quality, with questions carefully phrased to trap them against the minority report that we pretend we have not yet seen, then the administration, with the same objective.”

“The minority authors had those tenure threats,” Glorious Day said. “I don’t want to cost people their jobs.”

“People who threaten our subpoenaed witnesses,” Elektra said, “will face severe legal consequences.   I piously hope educated people all know this. In this case, since it’s in major national security issue, there may also be more severe complications for anyone who does that.”

“Then bring in the students,” Michael said, “one of whom can be prompted to bring up the minority report.  The student report was actually very well thought out, but will need some non-NTC experts to vet it for points that the students missed or failed to understand.  Then summon the minority report authors. Mind you, the industrial complaints were sufficiently specific about what had gone wrong at NTC that we need to be casting about for a new Chancellor for NTC, who could also be the nominal new Chancellor for FTU, so that when it becomes obvious that the situation is unacceptable we can appoint the person.”