Yesterday, the ETH president resigned from his post. Apparently the majority of heads of the departments did not support him anymore. I have never met him personally, so I can’t say what he was like. What I can say, however, that he has helped to grow the MTEC department where I work at within two years from 2 to 15 chairs (or some number like that). For that I am thankful. Good bye Mr Hafen and good luck.
[UPDATE]: To give credit where credit is due, I’d like to emphasize that, as Mr Hafen has been President only for 10 months, the MTEC extension has been initiated and pushed mainly by his predecessor Olaf Kübler, who has been president since Dec 1997. So my thanks go to Mr Kübler as well.