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Dan Goldin's `hit list' stunned trustees
Boston Globe ^
| November 2, 2003
| Marcella Bombardieri and Patrick Healy
Posted on 11/02/2003 2:02:24 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Boston University's Board of Trustees selected Daniel S. Goldin as president in July after a rushed search and only one brief meeting with him, then found themselves stunned by a series of demands from Goldin, including his plans to fire almost all of BU's top administrators and to live part time at his home in Malibu, Calif., several BU officials and sources close to the trustees said yesterday.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bu; goldin; space
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To: Semi Civil Servant; Tijeras_Slim
To: Cincinatus' Wife
after a rushed search Nonsense. Acadamia spends way too long in these searches.
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posted on
11/02/2003 6:32:34 AM PST
by
Drango
(Democratic fund rasing... If PBS won't do it, who will?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I got my masters at BU and have always had tremendous respect for John Silber. I've actually met with Goldin, and am less than impressed. Silber has the right stuff (going along with the Goldin pick shows he is starting to lose it though).
Golding has exactly the wrong stuff. Glad BU dodged a bullet, even if it cost them a fortune!
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posted on
11/02/2003 6:39:31 AM PST
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
What an innovative fundraising technique! Get a contract to run a university and then piss off enough people that they buy you out and finance your business plans. Entrepreneur Of The Year!
To: Dahoser
How true. Psychiatrists are part-time prostitutes when they work for lawyers.
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posted on
11/02/2003 7:35:07 AM PST
by
ampat
To: Cincinatus' Wife
NASA needs a mission. Dennis Miller has the right idea: have NASA build a high speed rail system here in the USA.
IMO a return to the moon would be a horribly expensive "so what?" enterprise.
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posted on
11/02/2003 7:46:44 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The old order changeth, yielding place to the old order...
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posted on
11/02/2003 7:49:28 AM PST
by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: aculeus
IMO a return to the moon would be a horribly expensive "so what?" enterprise.Think national defense.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Think national defense. Okay. I'll try that.
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posted on
11/02/2003 8:22:55 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Think national defense. Yeah. I'm waiting for the Chinese gov't to claim the entire moon for colonization when its probe goes there nearly 40+ years after Armstrong was playing golf there. Probably will receive UN backing for its claim based on the overpopulation myth and the UN's general hatred/envy of the US.
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posted on
11/02/2003 8:23:53 AM PST
by
Young Rhino
(http://www.artofdivorce.com)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The human body doesn't like zero-gravity. Or even low gravity -- a lunar colony would not work. Space warfare concerns are better served by robots, remotes. Even space elevators.
And rather than the moon -- a rotating space station at a lagrange point is more useful, technology-wise.
Mars is a better target colony wise.
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posted on
11/02/2003 8:30:50 AM PST
by
bvw
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Silber established Goldin as the front-runner, seeing him as a strong leader who could help land big donations and lucrative federal grantsWhen the trustees heard that, the search for a president was over.
To: aculeus
IMO a return to the moon would be a horribly expensive "so what?" enterprise.If NASA needs a mission and nobody can come up with one, it's time for NASA to go away. Any bureaucracy looking for a mission has outlived its usefulness. We have WAY too many government people running around looking for a mission.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
On Howie Carr's Boston based radio show last friday, he detailed the Boston University Trustees who had contracts (or who had ties to companies with contracts) with BU, for consulting or services. Many of these contracts were in the millions of dollars. Some contracts were with personal friends and associates of John Silber. It was a pretty amazing list. Supposedly Goldin also wanted to end these conflicts of interest on the board. That may be the biggest part of his not getting the job.
To: BansheeBill
Perhaps that was his motive but trust me he'd have run it into the ground. He can't manage, he bullies and isn't capable.
To: bvw
Humans and robots will work together. There is gravity on the Moon and we will learn to overcome problems. That's what this is all about, expanding our knowledge and capabilities.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
bump
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posted on
11/02/2003 2:09:04 PM PST
by
VOA
To: Cincinatus' Wife
lucrative federal grantsThis is what those big universities live off....our tax dollars.
And they have the audacity to call themselves 'private'.
To: jazzlite; Dahoser; Loyal Buckeye; harrowup; NoControllingLegalAuthority; Lessismore; Brian Allen; ..
To: Analyzing Inconsistencies
Golden is just another example of the wretched excesses of the Clinton debauchery. Some days I could slug 90% of my neighbors who still think Hilary Clinton should be in the United States Senate.
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posted on
11/02/2003 7:52:49 PM PST
by
harrowup
(So perfect I'm naturally humble)
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