Boston U. Pays Its New President Just to Go Away

NYTimes ^ | November 1, 2003 | SARA RIMER

[razorback-bert]

$375,000 is my bottom walk away price!

[kitkat]

****$375,000 is my bottom walk away price!***

You guys are selling out too cheap. They'll laugh at you. I demand 1.6 million to walk away, and they'll shake in their birkenstocks.

[kitkat]

***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.***

I'm not from MA, so would you tell me what happened under Whitey Bulger's brother?

[Hildy]

Why does the president of a university need a chauffered limo?

[pt17]

I'm not from MA, so would you tell me what happened under Whitey Bulger's brother?

He was a longtime sleazy Boston pol who, with questionable academic or administrative credentials, became president of UMass, played politics with the office, got in a fight with the governor, pissed off a congressional committee and did nothing to help find his fugitive murdering brother.

[AmishDude]

Why does the president of a university need a chauffered limo?

If his campus is anything like mine, it would take a couple of hours just to walk to his office from the nearest parking space.

[RJCogburn]

Why does the president of a university need a chauffered limo?

So he does not have to walk, of course.

I was thinking that perhaps Manny Ramirez, since he has to stay in Boston it seems, might be able to help out as he is demonstrably overpaid...."BU President Manny".

[tdadams]

I agree. A man's got to know his worth. I'm not about to not do a job for anything less than $800,000.

[x]

Silber ran for governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat against Weld in 1990 He lost because liberals deserted him in droves. He was also hated by the 1960s radicals when he took over BU. Silber was a mentor and dissertation advisor to Bill Bennett in a day when they were both Democrats and more or less liberal.

Silber must be hell to work with, but he is "diversity" in higher education. Love him or hate him, it's good to have someone around who definitely isn't a gray "organization man." He's something like the Margaret Thatcher of the university world. He doesn't sway with the winds of the Zeitgeist, and that is something in a world where backbone is rare.

[kitkat]

***He was a longtime sleazy Boston pol who, with questionable academic or administrative credentials, became president of UMass, played politics with the office, got in a fight with the governor, pissed off a congHe sounds lihis fugitive murdering brother.***

He sounds like a real gem. But we had our own gem of a university president in NY State. Here's his story:

The president of SUNY (State University of New York) at Buffalo, and his wifey were strolling along a mall one day when they came across an antique dealer's display which had two Frank Lloyd Wright chairs which originally belonged in the Darwin Martin house in Buffalo.

They struck a deal with the antique dealer to buy them for $2 each with the promise that they would put them in the Martin house and leave them there.

Some time later, the dealer contacted them to say that he had found two more chairs. They bought them for a tiny amount and swore they'd remain in the Martin house.

Still later, the dealer received a catalog from an auction house in Chicago. There were the chairs, listed as worth $40,000 each.

He contacted the local paper which investigated. The Chicago dealer promptly took them off his list. The university pres. and his wifey had to give them back to the Martin house.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the ping. I say they got off cheap. Golden would have run it into the ground like he did NASA.

[anymouse]

Space policy ping.

[steve-b]

Boston U. Pays Its New President Just to Go Away

Maybe somebody should have tried that with Clinton.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Dan Goldin orders YOU not to click the related thread below: Related thread: Will Massachusetts' Attorney General Tom Reilly do anything about Dan Goldin's recent $1.7 million dollar severance package, and especially the aerospace lobbyist / Boston U. board member Gerald Cassidy who brought this on tuition payers and U.S. taxpayers that subsidize B.U. (and most other universities nationwide)?

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

And I thought it was just football coaches that got cushy deals and buyouts?

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Well, coaches tend to show up for at least one day's work. Dan Goldin set a new record with this one. He got nearly $2 million tuition dollars from that tax-subsidized private university without even reporting for duty.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

New York Times article (Nov. 6th): "[Dan Goldin's] $1.8 Million Check for a Job Not Done Jolts Boston University"

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Here's a brand new, related thread discussing punitive actions that are being taken (and in some cases NOT taken, for now):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022819/posts