"It's a good thing you made it clear that I wasn't currently at the Taj Majal," Jim Kelly joked. Prof. Kelly is the chairman of the public information committee for the SIUC teachers' union, the Faculty Association, who directed me to the Frequently Asked Questions at the union's website for more details about the 75(!) issues concerning the 680 faculty members represented by the union.

He said five people represented each side when talks were taking place, but didn't know whose move it was to resume negotiations. Where do the talks take place? In the Student Center? At the Taj Majal? Who are the talkers? Lawyers? Teachers? Administrators? Do they order out for lunch? What will the University's public information representative say?