I'm going to mail this article to as many Comcast locations in my area as I can. I'm also going to mail it to the other media outlets here in Denver, with special emphasis on Fox31.
I already dropped our home's Comcast cable, but still have their, unpredictable and over-priced, broadband. I guess its time to jettison that, as well. Comcast is just an evil corporation, all the way around. Fox (Faux) and Newscorp (NewsCorpse) need no explanation.
Good, but sad, article!
Sorry Tale of UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Office: easily grasped by the public, lost on University of California’s President Yudoff. The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. His reasons range from the need for impartiality to requiring the consultants "thinking, expertise, & new knowledge".
Does this mean that the faculty & management of UC Berkeley – flagship campus of the greatest public system of higher education in the world - lack the knowledge, integrity, impartiality, innovation, skills to come up with solutions? Have they been fudging their research for years? The consultants will glean their recommendations from faculty interviews & the senior management that hired them; yet $ 150 million of inefficiencies and solutions could be found internally if the Chancellor & Provost Breslauer were doing the work of their jobs (This simple point is lost on UC’s leadership).
The victims of this folly are Faculty and Students. $ 3 million consultant fees would be far better spent on students & faculty.
There can be only one conclusion as to why inefficiencies & solutions have not been forthcoming from faculty & staff: Chancellor Birgeneau has lost credibility & the trust of the faculty & Academic Senate leadership (C. Kutz, F. Doyle). Even if the faculty agrees with the consultants' recommendations - disagreeing might put their jobs in jeopardy - the underlying problem of lost credibility & trust will remain. (Context: greatest recession in modern times)
Contact your representatives in Sacramento: tell them of the hefty self-serving $’s being spent by UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer.
I'm curious to see when they (BP) will actually have to pay up. I think BP will try to follow the way of Exxon and the valdez debocle. A majority of the people directly affected by the Valdez oil spill had passed away by the time their awards were determined. I would be curious to see how much of that money actually went to the people most affected by that spill.
I don't think there many people left that would put any stock in anything BP has to say anymore. Between the Texas City fines, The gulf oil spill and the breakdown of the Alaskan Pipeline their credibility is just about shot. I personally don't see how they will stay afloat. But as history has shown us with these big corporations and the trouble they cause, a short while passes and folks soon forget about it. If this doesn't happen then these guys seem to just fold up shop and reopen under a different name a short while later.
Its disgraceful to the citizens of the U.S. that BP had total control of the gulf situation including the information that was allowed or not allowed to circulate. The only reason a big corporation or anyone else for that matter would have to hide and censor information is if they themselves were hiding something. You don't have to be a genius to see that. But they got away with it and we all know its because they have the financial power to buy that kind of power only reinforcing the difficulty of the U.S. citizens to trust those that are supposed to be looking out for us.
This is a good letter and you are right. Look at what Mother Jones' Kevin Drum does in its last issue to the Tea Party goers. (Aug. 2010) He describes them with at least 23 terms from medical psychiatry and concludes that they are just a "symptom of an old disease." This is more like Fox than Mother Jones--or at least I thought so till I began to read their Tea Party stuff. There is absolutely nothing in it to suggest that many of them are sincere and have very many justifiable grievances.
Advice: Publish your name. Teachers in order to be true teachers must also be warriors.
This is my first time on this site and I am disappointed by this article. There is a huge area of common ground between both parties. This is almost totally ignored and there can be only one reason for it, politics as usual. Mother Jones supports the party of the people but not the people. They are closet elitists. What about the Center For Medal and Democracy? Does democracy belong just to the left, or to all of us? J. Warren Clark, educator
Sorry Tale of UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Office: easily grasped by the public, lost on University of California’s President Yudoff. The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. His reasons range from the need for impartiality to requiring the consultants "thinking, expertise, & new knowledge".
Does this mean that the faculty & management of UC Berkeley – flagship campus of the greatest public system of higher education in the world - lack the knowledge, integrity, impartiality, innovation, skills to come up with solutions? Have they been fudging their research for years? The consultants will glean their recommendations from faculty interviews & the senior management that hired them; yet $ 150 million of inefficiencies and solutions could be found internally if the Chancellor & Provost Breslauer were doing the work of their jobs (This simple point is lost on UC’s leadership).
The victims of this folly are Faculty and Students. $ 3 million consultant fees would be far better spent on students & faculty.
There can be only one conclusion as to why inefficiencies & solutions have not been forthcoming from faculty & staff: Chancellor Birgeneau has lost credibility & the trust of the faculty & Academic Senate leadership (C. Kutz, F. Doyle). Even if the faculty agrees with the consultants' recommendations - disagreeing might put their jobs in jeopardy - the underlying problem of lost credibility & trust will remain. (Context: greatest recession in modern times)
Contact your representatives in Sacramento: tell them of the hefty self-serving $’s being spent by UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer.
I'm curious to see when they (BP) will actually have to pay up. I think BP will try to follow the way of Exxon and the valdez debocle. A majority of the people directly affected by the Valdez oil spill had passed away by the time their awards were determined. I would be curious to see how much of that money actually went to the people most affected by that spill.
I don't think there many people left that would put any stock in anything BP has to say anymore. Between the Texas City fines, The gulf oil spill and the breakdown of the Alaskan Pipeline their credibility is just about shot. I personally don't see how they will stay afloat. But as history has shown us with these big corporations and the trouble they cause, a short while passes and folks soon forget about it. If this doesn't happen then these guys seem to just fold up shop and reopen under a different name a short while later.
Its disgraceful to the citizens of the U.S. that BP had total control of the gulf situation including the information that was allowed or not allowed to circulate. The only reason a big corporation or anyone else for that matter would have to hide and censor information is if they themselves were hiding something. You don't have to be a genius to see that. But they got away with it and we all know its because they have the financial power to buy that kind of power only reinforcing the difficulty of the U.S. citizens to trust those that are supposed to be looking out for us.
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