Mickey Friedman
November 21, 2011
It’s been quite awhile since I dwelled in academia. So I’m out of practice. No longer speak the language. Maybe you do. Maybe you know what Chancellor Katehi is saying. Maybe it’s the wax in my ears. Maybe I need to sit in on some faculty meetings.
It sounds suspiciously like sophistry to me. You know, slightly deceptive reasoning or argumentation.
So concerned that events could get out of hand, so worried someone would get hurt, that she might have to inform a parent that somehow because she hadn’t acted she would have to inform them that their kid had been hurt … Following what in fact was the protocol …
Never really owning up to the fact that she was the one who, in fact, set in motion the very act of hurting students.
And having hurt her students, she won’t resign because she tells us: “I am committed to staying at this University. I have made the commitment to really make this university a better place than from what it is right now, a great place as a matter of fact in terms of providing a learning environment for our students. There is a lot of work which needs to be done and I have made the commitment to work really hard to make those things, to really make our campus the place we want it to be.”
Well see for yourself.
Just for the record:
Linda Katehi was provost and vice chancellor of the 41,000-student University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until she was appointed in 2009.
As chancellor of UC Davis, Katehi receives an annual salary of $400,000.
Consistent with university policy, Katehi also received:
• University-provided housing;
• An annual automobile allowance of $8,916;
• A relocation allowance of $100,000 (25 percent of base salary) to offset various costs associated with her relocation to California, subject to proportional repayment if the position is resigned within the first four years of appointment;
• Payment of packing and moving costs for household effects, library and related equipment;
• Reimbursement of travel expenses for business-related visits to the campus during the transition period; and
• Eligibility for a Mortgage Origination Program loan and payment of relocation costs if she continues in a tenured faculty position after stepping down as chancellor. An annual allocation of campus funding will be established if an active research program is maintained during the appointment as chancellor.
Katehi will receive standard pension, health and welfare, and senior management benefits, including senior management life insurance, executive business travel insurance, executive salary continuation for disability, accrual of sabbatical leave and an administrative fund.
http://chancellorsearch.ucdavis.edu/archive/new_chancellor.html
Anyway, there’s the academy and then there’s Anonymous. Or someone claiming to be Anonymous. I really don’t know Anonymous or any of the Anonymous so I can’t really tell. I do think this is relevant to the discussion. Anonymous is suggesting there are other ways to understand the word. It would certainly be interesting to witness a debate between Anonymous and the anything-but-anonymous-Chancellor.
Herewith in the interest of a free and open debate and discussion, Anonymous’ message to the 99%:
And lastly, the photoshop masters and mistresses are photoshopping. A small token of pepperspray the world:
