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1 W f r iw W i Or . 5 -1559, JF: I understand you went to the Theatre Company Box Office to pick up tickets for their recent production and they asked who you were. This must be disconcerting, not having people know who you are. WALKER: Not really. lt's normal in any large organization for Presidents to be relatively unknown. The thing I regret about it is that I don't have time to get out and meet more students individually although I do meet a surprising number. But no, it doesn't distress me at all. I think the job of the President is to get things done, to create a climate on a campus where the juices can flow, because there is a great deal of innovative wit on the campus. The job of the President is not to do a grandstand show and have people marvel at the wonder of his presence, but rather to create a climate in which everyone participates, everyone shares the credit, everyone takes the bows, everyone wins the solutions, as well as the problems, and I think a relatively low profile, where ego needs are subordinated to the chemistry of the institution, is a style that I prefer and try to cultivate. The bad part of that is since l'm a Touch administrator andlike to move around and see people and like people, l'm frequently deprived of that. Now, I do have stand-up appointments once a week where students can come in with anything on their mind, but I must say that I get surprisingly few takers. JF: Well, why don't you tell us something about yourself. I understand, for instance, that you write mystery novels. WALKER: Yes, that is something that I do between midnight and the time I go to bed. I do like detective literature, I think it's a much more subtle form of literature, a genre that's sometimes neglected because the characters tend to be plastic, unreal characters, as they are not novels of personal development and character deliniation, although some detective writers do that S rs ' I rather well. I like the structure of the detective novel. People sometimes ask me whery I came by this morbid interest...but it isn't morbid! The detective novel is the modern morality play. People move in and out of a matrix of law and due process. I agree with G.K. Chesterton: People who don't like detective stories are anarchists! JF: Do you get ideas from everyday life or is this a totally different world? WALKER: lt's a totally different world, and you shouIdn't ask a detective story to reflect life, any more than you should ask the ballet to reflect life. Real murder is ugly, and usually quite simple. Eighty-five percent of the people who are murdered know their killer. lt's your friends that do you in. JF: You're a real student of human nature. Seriously, have you a degree in Psychology? ' WALKER: l'm a sociologist in poor repair. JF: How long have you been at SIVIU? WALKER: This is finishing up my third year, coming around into the turn. JF: What changes have you seen since you first came here? WALKER: lt's hard to tell, exactly. I hope the self-image of the Univeristy is improving. This is a first-rate teaching university. l've noticed some tendency to suffer from what Chopin referred to as EngIishman's Disease. Chopin complained that the Englishman tended to play the good notes with indifference and the bad notes with great feeling., I think to some extent that applied to the academic community when I arrived: it is less so now. I think that more creative things are going on - they tend to be invisible - but if you look at the number of new programs that have been instituted in the last few years - and not by me - they indicate a better, more concerned climate. I think the University has improved its position in the state tremendously because legislators have become more aware of what an excellent institution this is. There has been considerable improvement in our budget
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