Our Chancellor is a greedhead
Mike Persley
Issue date: 3/15/10 Section: Opinions
Media Credit: Anonymous students on campusAt least some students are offended by the chancellor's world-class home. Above is a poster being distributed by students unknown and unaffiliated with the Flame.
I grabbed a copy of the Flame two weeks ago and lo and behold, right there on the front page something struck me.
If you haven't read the article "The Perks of Being a Chancellor," I highly recommend you visit the Flame's website, search through the backlog and give it a skim.
It appears our good Chancellor, Paula Allen-Meares went on a shopping spree with $500,424 of University money to renovate her home. Among the "necessities" were a regal $6,240 rug and $8, 810 dining room table, which I'm sure worked very nicely for her high end, university upper-stratum dinner parties. And let's not forget the all-important $130 sugar pot, the $486 appetizer plates and the mother of all wasted expenditures, a $215 teapot. Really? $215? What, does the tea glow when you pour it? Does it whistle a particular tune when the water's ready?
Let me give you a lesson in consumer products from someone who isn't and has never been as privileged as you are, Chancellor. The level of quality of a basic consumer item is greatly enhanced when you think in terms of spending $100, compared to $2. After that, everything is pretty much all the same. I hate to break it to you, but your sugar pot is not much better than mine.
Isn't this a problem, Chancellor? I know you've worked hard and worked your way up the ladder and I respect that, but now that you have gone to the top, you've gone and kicked the ladder out from underneath you. Now you're up there with all the other university upper-echelon who know as much about the struggle their students are facing as Burl Ives knows about rap.
You're out of touch, Chancellor. You've lost your way. You used to be a good young liberal woman. For goodness sake, you're a social worker! Now you're pissing on all the people you're here to represent.
But we don't believe you're all bad, Chancellor. You're not some soulless elite who spends $2,219 of university money on an "antique corner chair" while your students may miss out on school next semester and your professors are taking out furloughs to save the university money. That's not you, Chancellor. We know that. I know that.
You have to show it. Show us you're not out of touch. Take a pay cut why don't you? That ought to help.
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If you haven't read the article "The Perks of Being a Chancellor," I highly recommend you visit the Flame's website, search through the backlog and give it a skim.
It appears our good Chancellor, Paula Allen-Meares went on a shopping spree with $500,424 of University money to renovate her home. Among the "necessities" were a regal $6,240 rug and $8, 810 dining room table, which I'm sure worked very nicely for her high end, university upper-stratum dinner parties. And let's not forget the all-important $130 sugar pot, the $486 appetizer plates and the mother of all wasted expenditures, a $215 teapot. Really? $215? What, does the tea glow when you pour it? Does it whistle a particular tune when the water's ready?
Let me give you a lesson in consumer products from someone who isn't and has never been as privileged as you are, Chancellor. The level of quality of a basic consumer item is greatly enhanced when you think in terms of spending $100, compared to $2. After that, everything is pretty much all the same. I hate to break it to you, but your sugar pot is not much better than mine.
Isn't this a problem, Chancellor? I know you've worked hard and worked your way up the ladder and I respect that, but now that you have gone to the top, you've gone and kicked the ladder out from underneath you. Now you're up there with all the other university upper-echelon who know as much about the struggle their students are facing as Burl Ives knows about rap.
You're out of touch, Chancellor. You've lost your way. You used to be a good young liberal woman. For goodness sake, you're a social worker! Now you're pissing on all the people you're here to represent.
But we don't believe you're all bad, Chancellor. You're not some soulless elite who spends $2,219 of university money on an "antique corner chair" while your students may miss out on school next semester and your professors are taking out furloughs to save the university money. That's not you, Chancellor. We know that. I know that.
You have to show it. Show us you're not out of touch. Take a pay cut why don't you? That ought to help.
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