The next day, food and drinks with another trustee, Hilton Kramer, and a second guest cost the university $707. Mr. Kramer [was] The New York Observer’s art critic and a media critic for The New York Post.
The meal charges were actually modest; it was the bar tab that drove up the grand total. The bill was $454 for the 1982 Brion wine and Martell 100 cognac that Dr. Silber and Dr. Diamandopoulos drank. And the 1983 Chaval and Martell that he and Mr. Kramer sipped cost $552.
Whenever UD reads about the efforts of this or that university administrator to blow the school’s money on personal indulgences, she remembers the golden age of Diamandopoulos/Silber/Kramer, and it all seems so small. I mean yeah the current chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities has apparently blown the money he got from hardworking parents on bogus moving expenses, double-paid housing allowances, school credit card abuse, $1,000 per ride chauffeured trips, und so weiter. But does all of that even begin to form the Russian imperial picture of the guys sipping five hundred dollar cognac? Babe, you know they left some of that cognac on the table, or hurled it at their server, just to say HAHAFUCKYOUFUCKEVERYBODY.
I’m not getting that intensity of vibe from Terrence Cheng, though the limo rides are impressive. But even they lack the FUCKTHEWORLD psychosis of his predecessors, one of whom was so spectacularly filthy that he got a whole book written about him.