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Saturday, September 24, 2005

“We pigs are brainworkers.
The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us.
Day and night we are watching over your welfare.”




From tomorrow’s Washington Post :

Tensions with the board began last year, two trustees said, when Ladner asked for a $1 million bonus and several millions more in other compensation.




…[T]he father of a 2005 graduate said he and his wife had planned to make a "significant endowment" to AU, but they have changed their minds.

"The Board of Trustees has apparently condoned Mr. Ladner's free spending and unilaterally decided that the mission of the university is to enrich the president's lifestyle and NOT provide competitive salaries for professors or scholarships for deserving students," he wrote in an e-mail.
Posted at: 9/24/2005 12:41:00 AM