The problem with the public part is that they’ve got to put the head of the state senate on their board of trustees.
Now it says here that “The structure of the Board of Trustees has changed several times,” so there may be hope for the school’s reputation in the future. For the present, Cornell gets hit up year after year with whatever grifter’s got that job, which really lowers the tone, trustee-wise.
I know what you’re saying. Ex-officio, big deal! Everyone knows that means shit.
Not everyone knows that. The name’s emblazoned very close to the tippytop of your list of venerables entrusted with the welfare of the university. It says Welcome to Cornell. Welcome to our Board of Trustees.
Here’s some background on Trustee Skelos.
What to do? Albany will always be a whoremarket.
UD presumes that up to now the process of adding the latest Albany name has been like a children’s party game wee UD used to play: Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Blindfolded, you pressed a piece of paper drawn to resemble a donkey’s tail onto where on the wall you figured the image of the rest of the donkey might have been affixed. Then you pulled off your blindfold and laughed at how far the tail was from its proper location. UD‘s figuring that the process of state senate trustee name entry at Cornell involves the blind pressing but not the laughter. She figures it’s like I’m sticking this ass on this page but I don’t want to see and I don’t want to know. It’s a leap in the dark, a leap of faithlessness, a leap of joylessness.
Since there’s apparently precedent for changing the composition of the BOT at Cornell, UD recommends a quick chat among themselves to that, uh, end.
May 2nd, 2015 at 10:49AM
I don’t think Cornell can unilaterally change the BOT composition. I bet New York State has to agree and I doubt THAT will happen.
May 2nd, 2015 at 11:13AM
Those who are most “successful” in places like Albany graduate to work in DC, the ninth circle of whoremarkets.
May 2nd, 2015 at 11:22AM
Anon: I suppose you’re right – about many of them.
May 5th, 2015 at 12:43PM
UD. whoremarket doesn’t sound right. How about Market Of Whores?
Market For Whores? Mercado De Whores? Marketable Whores?