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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Ladner, Act III

Wherein the pathos of a group of
Uncomprehending businesspeople
Compels our pity.



“The group of trustees that backs Ladner,” the Washington Post reports this morning, “… finished negotiating a proposed contract with him and pushed for the full board to get him back on campus. …The new deal would include compensation of about $800,000 for Ladner …”

With students staging Ladner-Out-Now rallies, and faculty voting no-confidence in him as background, a remnant of the trustees now appears onstage. Perturbed and disheveled, they speak:

“$800,000 is reasonable… If people only knew the full story… What a beautiful world it used to be…”