Date: 25 Mar 2005 23:11:10 -0000
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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@math.uic.edu>
To: nmaddox@ilsos.net
Subject: economic-interest misapplication

I'm a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I'm one
of many victims of an error by the University Ethics Officer: this year
a huge number of faculty members, not just department heads, have been
told to file Statements of Economic Interest.

I wrote to the Office of the Secretary of State to find out our options
in case this error is not corrected promptly by the University Ethics
Officer. Renee Paine gave me your name.

Suppose the Office of the Secretary of State is given a victim's name by
the University Ethics Officer; does not receive a Statement of Economic
Interest from the victim; and is informed by the victim that the victim
is not required to file the statement. What happens?

I presume that the Office of the Secretary of State doesn't blindly
trust the University Ethics Officer. There must be some sort of friendly
dispute-resolution mechanism.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago