Goodbye, Doctor.
May the door hit your rather warm keester on the way out.
Sir, your return on investment, as Ramzy will note along with some brief tragedy, is unparalleled. But, where others note it as an unbelievable salesmanship on behalf of the university, I call it a pursuit of the almighty dollar. For, with it, I note the efforts to bring the second-year students under the auspices of student housing, and with it their money, saying it will force the University slums to improve. Such only removes a slight bit more of demand, as less than ten thousand of the undergraduate population will be removed from the demand pool. However, the block program, meant to continue to glean off the unexpended pennies from students eating meals (and dollars at the end of semesters when blocks remain unspent), remains in force as extra expense on top of the housing costs - even with the improvement of housing facilities, the obvious answer to the problem is to reduce student costs for housing on-campus, thus making an actual *choice* in the matter.
But perhaps a more visible example is called for. Take the Campus Partners project and their Gateway, from which the only affordable option added is the cinema. All the eateries there were meant to replace bars and campus staples. It amounted to gentrification, which is a word I had to learn at a Ralph Nader rally back in Toledo later on. The students are no richer today then they were in 1998. There is still max compensation at the university of $10/hour for undergraduate students; grocery store cashiers top out at a higher rate for less skilled work. In a world where scholarships are the preferred method of allowing better affordability to students, his #HigherEd hashtags refused to discuss the glaring problem - tuition is too damn high for what people are getting out of it, both in enlightenment and employment.
More obvious? Okay, lets talk outsourcing. Let's talk about Sodexo being day-laborers every Saturday instead of the students that used to reside *inside the stadium* for that purpose - a special arrangement for students who had no dreams of otherwise affording tickets to the games (tickets even more outrageous now, both in face value and scalping value). Let's look at CampusParc being sold a long-term lease of our parking lots, with a cap on maximum yearly parking pass increases as an afterthought - and, by afterthought, I mean after a near uprising that was not nearly quelled by the public meetings...held during EXAM WEEK. (My letter expressing outrage over that piece of timing was answered by now-interim president, then-provost Joseph Alutto. It amounted to, "We know, we're going ahead with this anyway.")
See, it's not the lines he's spouting - it's always what's behind it. When he's calling other universities, "Sisters of the Poor," he's saying these universities aren't getting the money OSU is. Or, for that matter, the money *he* was. He reguarly donated his salary increases from his second tenure to the scholarship program; his benefits, however, were nothing short of outrageous. He does not fly anything but first class. He has a bowtie budget. The competition up north flies coach, and has just as large an endowment. His retirement just vested, and he'll be taking that money and running now.
Specifically, running his mouth, now that he's not a figurehead for a billion-dollar organization that calls for at least dignity while robbing students blind.
Sir, your return on investment, as Ramzy will note along with some brief tragedy, is unparalleled. But, where others note it as an unbelievable salesmanship on behalf of the university, I call it a pursuit of the almighty dollar. For, with it, I note the efforts to bring the second-year students under the auspices of student housing, and with it their money, saying it will force the University slums to improve. Such only removes a slight bit more of demand, as less than ten thousand of the undergraduate population will be removed from the demand pool. However, the block program, meant to continue to glean off the unexpended pennies from students eating meals (and dollars at the end of semesters when blocks remain unspent), remains in force as extra expense on top of the housing costs - even with the improvement of housing facilities, the obvious answer to the problem is to reduce student costs for housing on-campus, thus making an actual *choice* in the matter.
But perhaps a more visible example is called for. Take the Campus Partners project and their Gateway, from which the only affordable option added is the cinema. All the eateries there were meant to replace bars and campus staples. It amounted to gentrification, which is a word I had to learn at a Ralph Nader rally back in Toledo later on. The students are no richer today then they were in 1998. There is still max compensation at the university of $10/hour for undergraduate students; grocery store cashiers top out at a higher rate for less skilled work. In a world where scholarships are the preferred method of allowing better affordability to students, his #HigherEd hashtags refused to discuss the glaring problem - tuition is too damn high for what people are getting out of it, both in enlightenment and employment.
More obvious? Okay, lets talk outsourcing. Let's talk about Sodexo being day-laborers every Saturday instead of the students that used to reside *inside the stadium* for that purpose - a special arrangement for students who had no dreams of otherwise affording tickets to the games (tickets even more outrageous now, both in face value and scalping value). Let's look at CampusParc being sold a long-term lease of our parking lots, with a cap on maximum yearly parking pass increases as an afterthought - and, by afterthought, I mean after a near uprising that was not nearly quelled by the public meetings...held during EXAM WEEK. (My letter expressing outrage over that piece of timing was answered by now-interim president, then-provost Joseph Alutto. It amounted to, "We know, we're going ahead with this anyway.")
See, it's not the lines he's spouting - it's always what's behind it. When he's calling other universities, "Sisters of the Poor," he's saying these universities aren't getting the money OSU is. Or, for that matter, the money *he* was. He reguarly donated his salary increases from his second tenure to the scholarship program; his benefits, however, were nothing short of outrageous. He does not fly anything but first class. He has a bowtie budget. The competition up north flies coach, and has just as large an endowment. His retirement just vested, and he'll be taking that money and running now.
Specifically, running his mouth, now that he's not a figurehead for a billion-dollar organization that calls for at least dignity while robbing students blind.