Along with other questionable payouts, the school's spending spree exposed the servile Board of Trustees not only as rubbery stamps but also as a a useless cancelled postage stamp, serving at the will of a president that it somehow decided to hire, despite a rickety track record .
Some faculty people say it was either Scarborough or Jim Tressel, so there really wasn't an option But it does raise another question as to how a campus that was so free to offer a new president $450,000 and endless perks failed to draw a standing- room-only crowd of applicants from academia. Was it because UA ranked so low on the collegiate scale that folks simply wanted to enhance their careers elsewhere?
So Scarborough got what he wanted, even if the generous trustees with a top-heavy Republican majority blindly acted as if their school's destiny lay solely in his hands.
You don't hear that very much from the brain trusts on the Beacon Journal's editorial page It has become an apologist for the new regime and its latest editorial to that effect appeared under a pleading headline: UA has a good plan. It really does. The "really does" part weakly suggested that it needed a bracing modifier to support the "good plan".
Although some articles in the paper, along with Bob Dyer's column, have pointed out the gaps in the regime's armor back at the catbird seat, the ed page advises the readers that there are good things going to happen now that Team Scarborough is on the scene with a plan for the "university moving forward in a credible and promising way."
It's unkind and nitpicking, I know, but I keep thinking of that olive vase adorning the House of Scarborough. Good luck on that, campus. But first you must behave yourself.
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