Posted on 12/11/2014 4:40:08 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- Gutmann lay on the floor with student protesters when they took over her holiday party on Tuesday - their demonstration symbolizing the four and a half hours that the body of Michael Brown, a black teenager, remained on the street after being shot in August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
Members of the Penn police force who were working at the party and witnessed Gutmann's participation were "outraged," said Eric Rohrback, president of the 116-member Penn police officers' union.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Put her in the State Penn.
It is going to take these officers standing up and saying they fear for their lives and will not go back out to those demonstrations.
Yet another tenured criminal stealing money from taxpayers. What a PC idiot.
Bill’s latest squeeze?
I don't think so. Gutmann is a PC idiot, but she earns her keep: she lead an alumni fund-raising drive that in the course of, I think it was two years, raised $4 billion for Penn's endowment. (That the University of Pennsylvania, the private Ivy League institution.) If Penn earns only 1% per annum on its endowment, a mere twentieth of the investment income on the monies she raised will pay her salary in perpetuity.
OK...she’s stealing money from the donors. Either way, she represents the type of PC-infected idiots that “educate” our children in this country. Money isn’t everything.
But doesn’t that perpetuate the cycle of income inequality? /S
Give her a break, she was probably hoping to get laid........Evidently that failed too.
Ah, the University of Pennsylvania - always an embarrassment of embarrassments - this week’s reason to be glad I never send money to my alma mater......
Many of these college endowments are past critical mass where tuition could be free. Yet there is a competition in the Ivy League of who can accumulate the biggest endowment.
Nah...make her walk down an inner-city street after midnight with no protection other than her “I can’t breathe” sign.
Your personalization to Guttman of alumni wealth and interest is silly. She did not ‘earn’ such money. Nearly all major universities now routinely raise billions whomever the president.
I gave you a scale comparison of the amount of money Gutmann brought in and her salary. Do you really regard drawing a hefty salary for doing your job *very* well “stealing”? After all, the main job of a university President is fund-raising.
I’m inclined to cut her a little slack on this. Penn is in a largely African-American neighborhood, which it redeveloped with its endowment (interestingly this was a better investment than keeping it in the stock-market), and has a program of providing a full-ride scholarship to any kids from the neighborhood who make the admission cut. Good town-gown relations between Penn and its neighborhood have at times been a little tricky, and on that front this was probably a good move. One thing you might not have noticed is the size of Penn’s police force, and the fact they are real police, not the rent-a-cops a lot of colleges and universities have: Penn, at its own expense, provides an extra police presence, not just on campus but in a good portion of West Philadelphia surrounding the campus.
Actually I find President Gutmann amusing. Her last notable foible was occasioned by being photographed with all and sundry at a Halloween party she hosted for the students, including one who came dressed as a Muslim suicide bomber. I tweaked her by e-mailing her that I was glad to see her taking our national costume party in stride and not fretting too much about political correctness, and expressing the hope that next year she’d be photographed with some other horrors like faux Klansmen and pantomime Nazis, and suggesting that she find solace from the media storm by following the old Penn fight song’s advice and drinking a highball.
(Full disclosure: I’m an old Penn man, Grad A&S ‘84.)
Actually, she’s been an incomparably better university president (i.e. fund raiser) than, for instance, Sheldon Hackney, the bloke in charge when I was a grad student at Penn. She outstripped the target the Trustees had set both in amount and in time to complete the drive — I forget the details now, but I remember the reports of the first endowment drive under her stewardship being done early and raising more than hoped.
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