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In Praise of UT's Genius
RECEIVED Tue., Feb. 2, 2010
Dear Editor,
I was thrilled to hear about UT's new cost-cutting measures this week! It is truly inspirational that in this era of obscene Wall Street bonuses and Caligula-esque corporate executives, the UT Board of Regents was willing to magnanimously dock their own bloated salaries just the tiniest little bit in order to reduce the university's budget. And to go the extra yard by cutting slightly into the multimillion dollar raise they're planning for their football coach was just an amazing display of human decency. Can you imagine how much outrage and fury they would have provoked if, instead of shaving a meager percentage off of their own orgiastic millions, they had done something insane like shutter yet another legendary Austin live music venue to save the paltry sum of its operating costs? Why, they might just as well have done something so indefensibly stupid as cancel an informal class program that has improved the Central Texas economy by increasing the knowledge base and earning potential of thousands of low-income Texans over the years!
Kudos to you, regents, for averting a public relations disaster of (French) revolutionary proportions; you should in no way be brought up on federal corruption charges for investing in foreign corporations that support terrorism, or selling off UT-owned biotech patents for your own personal profit.
I was thrilled to hear about UT's new cost-cutting measures this week! It is truly inspirational that in this era of obscene Wall Street bonuses and Caligula-esque corporate executives, the UT Board of Regents was willing to magnanimously dock their own bloated salaries just the tiniest little bit in order to reduce the university's budget. And to go the extra yard by cutting slightly into the multimillion dollar raise they're planning for their football coach was just an amazing display of human decency. Can you imagine how much outrage and fury they would have provoked if, instead of shaving a meager percentage off of their own orgiastic millions, they had done something insane like shutter yet another legendary Austin live music venue to save the paltry sum of its operating costs? Why, they might just as well have done something so indefensibly stupid as cancel an informal class program that has improved the Central Texas economy by increasing the knowledge base and earning potential of thousands of low-income Texans over the years!
Kudos to you, regents, for averting a public relations disaster of (French) revolutionary proportions; you should in no way be brought up on federal corruption charges for investing in foreign corporations that support terrorism, or selling off UT-owned biotech patents for your own personal profit.
Jason Meador