We are searching for an athletic director, sniffing around for a law dean, on the trail of a police chief and hunting for a new HFS director.

Who’s running our school? And why does it feel like we are always losing people and searching for others?

The individual cases are unique, but the underlying and overarching issue is that the UW is not doing enough to keep its staff, and in the end it hurts the school and it hurts us.

We are losing professors left and right to schools such as Stanford, which can afford to provide its employees’ children with an education. And as far as I’ve heard, we aren’t attracting as many people as we’re losing. We are a major institution with a reputation for excellence, and every professor lost is like chipping a little stone off of the sculptures on Suzzallo Library’s facade.

As an editor and manager of The Daily, I have found that consistency is one key to success. The paper changes editors each quarter and this inconsistency confuses sources and staff members alike, making it difficult to develop relationships and trust. I don’t even know half of the staff that has tumbled through the newsroom. In fact, who am I? And what’s my job now?

The same idea can be applied to the UW administration. One part of a school’s success is strong, consistent and wise leadership (keyword: wise).

This wisdom comes from knowing your constituency and developing relationships. Administration officials cannot run away from the human beings affected by each decision they make. I would like to believe the administration would listen to me if I’m more to them than a student number.

Consistent leadership also clears up the little things, like learning how to do your job, and allows for long-range thinking and big ideas.

Since I arrived here three years ago, the campus has been in a constant state of flux, from search parties for administration bigwigs to the constant construction clattering around campus. Let’s do more to find people to run this school and then please, take a break.