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Sunday, November 20, 2005
A Mote it is to trouble the mind's eye … …as it muses upon a world of overpaid university presidents: “The first rule of being a president is never redecorate,” explains President Dan Mote of the University of Maryland, where he controls a billion dollar budget but “drives a 1998 Ford Crown Royal and works in a 50-year-old building with lots of problems,” a campus reporter notes. “Simply put, [the administration] buildings are old. Since being built more than 50 years ago, the pipes leak, the paint smells funny and the staircases resemble echoing psychiatric wards.” Flecks from the paint seem to have made Mote mad. Listen to him rant! “The administration building has to be functional ... but not too fancy and especially not new… If I was to put resources into buildings, they should be for labs and academic buildings. I think my office is nice.” -------------------------- UPDATE: David Foster, at Photon Courier, blogged a few months back on a related subject:
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