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Date: Feb 1, 2005

We're not on the list

Date: Feb 1, 2005

I guess we spent the endowment on the airplane.

Date: Feb 1, 2005

...and the "ad" and the lawsuits and the redundant positions and the settlements and the plans for the library renovation and the reorganization and the reorganization of the reorganization and and and...

Date: Feb 1, 2005

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Originally posted by: Monopoly money
"...and the "ad" and the lawsuits and the redundant positions and the settlements and the plans for the library renovation and the reorganization and the reorganization of the reorganization and and and..."

Speaking of reorganization, it was suppose to "reallocate" $1.8 million form administration to academics. However they never remind us of the $4 million Lassen took from the department’s end of year money for_______ (administration?) and has yet to return it. I guess if they don't return it by May we can say they "swept" the funds and they won't have to correct us for saying “swept”.

Date: Feb 1, 2005

Reporter,

Didn't Lassen sweep the funds for raises?

RC

Date: Feb 1, 2005

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Originally posted by: Robert Campbell
"Reporter,
Didn't Lassen sweep the funds for raises?
RC"

For the last g-ddamn time, I did NOT sweep the accounts! I invite anyone who thinks otherwise to visit my office for a lesson with monopoly money.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

I noticed last year that USM was not in any of the data that the Chronicle puts out about schools every year. I suspect this is another case of "we forget to report the data," or "nobody sent us the form." At the time I was irritated, because it looked as if we didn't exist. Now I think that Shelby and co. have probably never read the Chronicle of Higher Education--probably not even the huge piece they did about the Glamser-Stringer crisis.
We're so world-class that we don't have to act like we exist.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

last g-ddamn time

USM should certainly be on the top 5 list for having the most boorish, crude, foulmouthed, inept, egotistical CFO ever seen in an academic environment. No real university would subject their personnel to the type of foul tyrannical rants put forth by Lassen in meetings with chairs and directors.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: also disgusted
"last g-ddamn time USM should certainly be on the top 5 list for having the most boorish, crude, foulmouthed, inept, egotistical CFO ever seen in an academic environment. No real university would subject their personnel to the type of foul tyrannical rants put forth by Lassen in meetings with chairs and directors. "

That surprises me. I would argue that Lassen is ill-suited for making academic decisions, overly political and somewhat arrogant but I never would have associated the criticisms you raised with him.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Ryan is the one I have seen behaving as you describe.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: Fair criticism?
"That surprises me. I would argue that Lassen is ill-suited for making academic decisions, overly political and somewhat arrogant but I never would have associated the criticisms you raised with him. "

As an attendee at meeting of chairs/directors last week, I'd agree with the criticisms of "boorish, crude, & foulmouthed." I certainly don't have the cleanest mouth in the world, but at least I know better than curse like a sailor in a meeting of professionals. His ranting was offensive.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: Music patron X
"Ryan is the one I have seen behaving as you describe."

I am thinking that you mean Tim, not Maureen. I would not have expected it of either. I will assume it was out of character and attribute it to stress.

Of course, this may be one of those examples of subordinates assuming the characteristics of their leader. I hear himself has something of a potty mouth from time to time, too. In the vernacular: Monkey see; monkey do.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.