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Saturday, January 08, 2005

UNIVERSITY VOICES
IN THE WILDERNESS



[A new University Diaries feature]



"Some chronically underpaid professors are appalled that the Board of Supervisors would consider paying $500,000 a year--at the top level of the national pay scale for college presidents--to a federal bureaucrat who lacks a terminal academic degree.

In a letter to The Times-Picayune, physics and astronomy professor A.R.P. Rau laments the money thrown at chancellors and football coaches while LSU trails most Southern flagship universities in faculty salaries, pays near-poverty wages to janitors and fails to offer health insurance to graduate students. Rau writes, 'In truth, it is not the poverty of the state that's to blame but a poverty of the imagination and a poverty of the soul.' "


A. Ravi P. Rau
Professor of Physics
Ph.D., 1970 - University of Chicago
Atomic Theory