30K isn't near enough for what Ann has to say. What are you, some kind of "progressive" (read: "socialist")?
Speakers are paid what the market will bear. It's called supply and demand (quaint concept) and Ann is in demand. I can't comprehend why she isn't getting as much as the top dollar speakers do, especially since she is the only prominent conservative in the country who says what she REALLY thinks.
Aint that something; cute little intellectual prodigy like Ann being the balls for the whole Republican party and conservative movement? They can't beat her with brains (cretins), but they can attack her with boorish bathroom antics and downright rudeness. It's amazing that UT is even in Texas.
"Speakers are paid what the market will bear. It's called supply and demand (quaint concept)..."
Yes, I understand market economics, I support and advocate market economics, I have even TAUGHT market economics. If hosting Ann brought in more money than it cost then it makes sense but University lectures are not profit making operations. If they charged $10 a ticket they would have to bring in 3000 people to break even. There were only a few hundred at the meeting. Sometimes the value people put on things gets out of whack, like the tulip mania in Holland many years ago. As much as I like Ann, imo it's crazy to pay that kind of money to entertain or inform a few hundred people.
BTW Nuclhead, if you think I am a socialist troll try reading some of my posts.