Dec. 16, 2004 - 21:13 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Mobius Strip ?

Progress ? Dec. 6th I made an entry about an item buried back in the news. Every Time

A new item also buried in the paper a day or two later in the Rocky Mountain News tells what happened.

GREELEY - -UNC president sorry for handling of pay issue

"University of Northern Colorado President Kay Norton on Tuesday suspended $189,000 of incentive pay for 19 administrators, including herself, and apologized for the way the issue was handled."

"In a campus wide letter, Norton said she approached the matter with good intentions that "were not very well executed."

"Faculty members had criticized the payments, noting they came at a time when professors were increasing their teaching load to help cope with state funding cutbacks."

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Some of my thoughts and opinions. "Norton said she approached the matter with good intentions that "were not very well executed," my question is how could something like that be WELL executed ? Some diplomatic twist that would give the bonus to the big dogs without all the hurrah ?

From what I hear most states are cutting back on educational funding, and it is beyond my understanding just how a university president could even think there was money to give to the upper echelon, just due to the cutbacks alone. But when the ones doing the actual work have been extending themselves to make the wheels turn, why weren't they rewarded if a surplus that won't disappear exists.

The amount mentioned in the article is larger than the $103,000 amount mentioned in the earlier article. Coupled with that was that it would go to nine top administrators now the words are that 19 administrators were involved. Difference in the amount first mentioned and the latest combined with the total of the administrators from nine to nineteen administrators perhaps indicates that figuring that a hand in the cookie jar at this time is not wise and the figure was adjusted to the nineteen. At least that is the way it looks to me.

Maybe I should be super happy that Kay Norton is backing off the gifting of taxpayer money to the brass. But what I wonder is, will people like her with her philosophy (including our administration) will stick it to the people doing the extra work and to the taxpayers in the bitter end ?

So, take a strip of paper, twist it once, glue the ends -- then make a pencil mark that apparently is endless. Is Kay Norton building a Mobius Strip ? . . . . . . . . .

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