Boston U. Pays Its New President Just to Go Away

NYTimes ^ | November 1, 2003 | SARA RIMER

[RJCogburn]

I have a kid at BU now...tuition is already high enough.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Brace yourself.
I hope your "kid" isn't on the 7-year plan.

[stands2reason]

John Silber---his name sounds familiar...I think I read a column of his decrying the extinction of the "classical liberal"----

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Possibly in...
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control

"From Library Journal Originally published in the neo-conservative journal the New Centurion, the ten essays in this provocative anthology persistently attack present-day liberals for "betraying" their time-honored heritage of freedom and equality. The editors' introductory essay, which bears the book's title, argues that contemporary liberalism seeks to "impose an ideology of virtue" on society. The remaining essays relate this criticism to the areas of law, religion, foreign policy, historical narrative, and a construed connection between totalitarianism and liberalism. Although the essays range from philosophical analysis (Roger Kimball) and historical narrative (Keith Windschuttle) to autobiographical memoir (John Silber), the essayists focus their common disdain on the philosophies of famous political theorists (e.g., Rousseau and Marx) and on political treatises based on moral relativism (e.g., John Stuart Mill)--ideas that they believe have created a "liberalism" whose adherents today act like their historical adversaries on the right. For larger academic and public libraries.
-Jack Forman, San Diego Mesa Coll. Lib. "

[razorback-bert]

I will walk away from the presidency for only $900,000.

[kitkat]

A university board is thowing away possibly 1.5 million dollars to correct their own mistake, and nobody is questioning THEIR ability to conduct business?

[DaBearOne]

Boston. The place that pays and pays for the hole-in-the-ground. Could one expect anything different?

Maybe they could consult their wide-awake-drunk. (t kennedy} for sound advise {lies}.

Just a thought for the stupids.

[pt17]

A university board is thowing away possibly 1.5 million dollars to correct their own mistake, and nobody is questioning THEIR ability to conduct business?

LOL. University boards in MA don't conduct business. They conduct politics. I present this and what went on at UMass under Whitey Bulger's brother as evidence.

[patj]

ping

[tdadams]

The trustees had heard reports that Mr. Goldin had hired a psychiatrist to evaluate Dr. Silber, apparently in an effort to sideline him.

Gee, I can't see why that should ruffle any feathers.

Ditto, I'll gladly turn down any job I'm offered, for only $800,000.

[chilepepper]

As a BU grad (got my masters there) I have to say Silber has the "right stuff", Goldin most definitely does not (I met him but hold him responsable for many of NASA's present troubles)

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Parents save a bundle to pay for their kids to participate in this squander of money?

The only way to fix colleges is to starve them of money until they can again be declared sane enough to join the rest of the world.

People must demand an end to one-party (communist) rule over universities, balanced freedom of expression on campuses and a thorough accounting of the billions of dollars thrown away under the guise of "higher education."

[billorites]

Silber indeed has the "right stuff."

I went there as a cynical 28 y.o. and got a Master's Degree. I felt well treated by faculty and staff got a high quality graduate education.

But boy, what a muff!

[mo]

universities and hospitals...dysfunctional physical, intellectual anachronisms....for the most part run by those whose abilities and ideals pre-dated the modern information age...which somehow describes NASA as well.

[edwin hubble]

In the late 1970's an Esquire article described Silber as brilliant, arrogant and independence. He was portrayed as a powerful intellectual force. In his classes he would subject students to withering responses to their foolish questions.

At the time he had been teaching in Texas and had just moved to Boston. But the article described a very powerful figure dominating the landscape around him.

He hasn't changed in 25 years.

[edwin hubble]

typo above
... brilliant, arrogant and independent.

[rabidralph]

Maybe the administration will consider the guy who tried to shoot his lawyer; he might be less volatile.

[LS]

My only experience with Goldin was indirectly when he was NASA administrator and I was with the NASP program, and it wasn't pleasant. He was anything but a visionary.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Wouldn't you love to have been a fly on the wall in those offices? Talk about "fierce infighting".

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'll turn it down for $500,000.00. I'm not greedy, like you are.