I tell you, I should’ve gone into academia. Where else can you be asked to resign, then take a six month paid vacation on a salary well into six figures? Yes, life is good inside the ivory towers. Well, execpt for the students who are being milked for a hefty tuition raise this year.

Then there’s the case of N.C. State Chancellor James Oblinger, who resigned today as emails surfaced contradicting his earlier statements of non-involvement in the hiring of Mary Easley. Oblinger was either lying or he admitted that as chancellor of one of the nation’s leading technical universities he didn’t know how to search his own emails. I’m not sure which is worse.
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