Just found this plea, back in January, for Brown University’s president, Ruth Simmons, to resign as a director of Goldman Sachs. It’s from a group of activists who want, among other things, financial reform.
The writer notes the stupendous hypocrisy of a champion of social justice profiting for a decade from her consort with vampire squids.
A commenter on the post addresses President Simmons directly:
When you resign, please do so in a news conference and articulate clearly in it the offenses of Goldman Sachs that force you to dissociate yourself from it. By doing so, you would use your resignation as a tool to induce Goldman Sachs to improve its business practices.
Of course we know that when Simmons resigned (she’s still on the board of directors for a few months), she merely muttered something about time constraints. She thus missed one of thousands of chances she must have had, given her long-term position at the pinnacle of the organization, to influence Goldman Sachs for the better.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:49PM
off-topic, but thought you’d be interested in this article about on-line education.
April 26th, 2010 at 4:17PM
How could she do it? The old fashioned way: it’s called losing one’s soul.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:24PM
I have time constraints – but I had to apply to teach a term abroad to get out of serving on the Committee on the Faculty.