The Wall Street Journal reported today that the President of Vanderbilt University receives compensation of $1.4 million. The school also spends in excess of $700,000 on frequent parties, and a personal chef. Theres also the issue of $6 million of improvements to the mansion where he lives, which the university paid for. At least six colleges in the country are now paying about a million a year to their Presidents.
You will remember President Clinton was publicly criticized when Air Force One sat on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport. The President was having a $200 haircut by an LA stylist. When Air Force One is on the ground, nothing moves. Commercial airplanes can not take off or land, due to Secret Service restrictions.
Well the President of Vanderbilt University with his wife were on the way to Dubai in the Middle East, and supposedly made a stop in Rome, so his wife could have her hair cut. Assuming these stories are true, WHATS GOING ON? Is this arrogance, this I dont give a dam attitude. I realize there are people in the world starving to death, and we probably will never be able to get the food to them anyway, but a little HUMILITY and GRACE,...