University of Cincinnati faculty today will initiate their second vote of no-confidence in a decade against President Joseph A. Steger.

        Ballots — designed to defeat photocopying — are going into campus mail today and will be counted Nov. 12.

        Vote sponsors say Dr. Steger is an embarrassing foul-up who should quit so a successor can be chosen next year. His contract, with its one-year extension, expires in mid-2003.

        The no-confidence vote is sponsored by REFORM '95, an independent UC faculty group, according to spokesman Daniel Hershey, a professor of chemical engineering.

        “It will probably have as much impact as the last no-confidence vote,” UC spokesman Greg Hand responded. “The president has the confidence of the university's board of trustees and a mandate to make the difficult decisions that are required in the current budget situation.”

        On Nov. 25, 1991, 72 percent of the All-University Faculty approved the no-confidence motion and UC trustees responded with unanimous support for Dr. Steger.

        A similar no-confidence vote was threatened but never taken against President Warren Bennis in 1976. He quit a year later.

        Critics have focused on Dr. Steger's spending priorities.

        Meanwhile, UC and American Association of University Professors are trying to hire a mediator and resume stalled talks on the faculty's 3-year contract.

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