MSU's hunt for its 20th president shouldn't be as backbreaking and controversial as the MSU faculty members are making it out to be. I mean, the truth be told, they are proposing seven qualities for our future chief executive, each of which is pretty ambiguous.

The faculty believes very highly that the candidate should have experience teaching or working in an administrative position at a university. Now it doesn't take a rocket scientist nor an undergrad to figure out that the president of a Big Ten university, potentially ours, is not exactly going to be more successful bearing academic qualities as opposed to say, leadership skills.

Would a well-rounded business person or an awesome fund-raiser be out of the question? Would they be out of the selection process?

My biggest complaint goes out to the faculty members. Have they thought for once that the president of the school has more than one audience? How about the students, the community, the legislators, the nation and the world?

Believe me, the next president of MSU will certainly not fall short of making education and academia their greatest priority. After all, isn't that what the president of a university does? Of course MSU's trustees will look for a president that can clearly articulate oneself, have a vision and have experience in negotiation.

Britta S. Albrecht
communication graduate student