[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"----

[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.

[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.

[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".

[Hildy]

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

[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]

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