Big money at Chapman U

This morning, the OC Register’s OC Watchdog zeroes in on some stunningly generous salaries at Chapman University in Orange. According to W-dog, the university’s “chief money guy earned total compensation of $509,294 in 2007….”

Meanwhile, Chapman’s Prez Jim Doti earns $497,718.

Here are some other Chapmanesque salaries:

Parham Williams, dean of the law school: $467,229
Art Kraft, dean of the business school: $425,581
Henry Butler, business professor: $275,599
Michael Lang, law professor: $218,902
Francis Tuggle, business professor, $220,656

As you know, the SOCCCD's Chancellor, Raghu P. Mathur, gets about $300,000 a year, thanks to the "fiscally conservative" Mr. Tom Fuentes, his GOP pal.

The Reg also reports that “[Los Alamitos] Mayor Dean Grose on Tuesday apologized for an e-mail he sent to [a local businesswoman, Keyanus Price, who is African American] that showed a photograph of the White House with a watermelon patch imposed as the White House garden. (Disgust over mayor's White House watermelon e-mail.) See graphic above. 

I dunno. I don't know a thing about Mr. Grose. But isn't it possible that Grose was inviting Ms. Price to laugh at an outrageous image based on an old stereotype of blacks? 

I'm German, and if a friend were to send me a graphic of the "Bauer Compound" as, say, the Kehlsteinhaus (Adolf's Eagle's Next), I'd get a pretty good laugh. I think I'd appreciate the humor. 

And that doesn't mean that I'm not appalled by Hitler and the Nazis.

Or maybe a Photoshopped image of Herr Bauer driving a WWII Kübelwagen in an Anaheim parade? That's funny stuff, man.

UPDATE:

Mayor who sent White House watermelon e-mail to resign

“The attention brought to this matter has sadly created an image of me which is most unfortunate,” he wrote. “I recognize that I've made a mistake and have taken steps to make sure this is never repeated.”

Laptop Lap Dance?

via The Orion, Chico's online newpaper:

As Mary Lee Barton, professor of management, spoke to her students, she couldn't help but notice a couple of her students laughing and pointing at another student's open laptop in front of them. The laughing and pointing continued, so she told the student to put it away and went on with the lecture.

Curious as to what was so funny, she pulled the giggling students aside once class ended, she said.

"I asked some of these fellas afterward, 'What was so funny on his laptop?'" Barton said. "And they said he was looking at pornography."

Since that day, no laptops have been allowed in her class unless there was a great need for them, she said. It's even stated in big bold letters in her syllabus.

"I was horrified," Barton said. "I just want to say one kid can ruin it for everybody."

For more details, click here.

This is one reason why Rebel Girl regulates technology use in her classroom.

(Tip of the hat to University Diaries.)