the proverbial hand in the cookie jar - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: May 2, 2005

the proverbial hand in the cookie jar

Date: May 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Professor Bob
"http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-3/111492828291150.xml Just curious as to whether or not our distinguished president has access to such luxuries?"

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-3/11149282 8291150.xml

Date: May 2, 2005

Thanks Hot Link...my linking skills leave a little to be desired.

Date: May 2, 2005

Prof Bob, your link seems to be missing something. Where is the article?

Date: May 2, 2005

From the Times-Picayune

Ex-chief lived high on gifts to UNO
Foundation got bills for gifts, Cher tickets
Sunday, May 01, 2005

By Coleman Warner
Staff writer

Former University of New Orleans Chancellor Gregory O'Brien got into hot water with higher education officials and the state ethics board after he spent UNO Foundation money on his two daughters' weddings. But a review of O'Brien's spending habits reveals that the weddings were by no means the only occasions on which he or others lived well at the foundation's expense.

Business trips with his wife to Europe and the Far East, Godiva chocolates, Cher concert tickets, wedding gifts, Rex membership dues, liquor for the annual Washington, D.C., Mardi Gras gathering, car maintenance costs and an unspecified 2002 "chancellor's retreat" were among hundreds of expenses for which O'Brien or his office sought reimbursement from the foundation, records show.

O'Brien also turned to foundation accounts to make donations to nonprofits with no formal UNO ties, ranging from the Audubon Zoo to the New Orleans Museum of Art; to entertain dignitaries at pricey New Orleans restaurants, including Commander's Palace and the Windsor Court Hotel's Grill Room; and to pay travel costs of congressional staffers who visited UNO in February 2002 -- during Carnival's final weekend blowout.

Date: May 2, 2005

Cher tickets. That's worth firing him for all by itself.

Date: May 2, 2005

I agree with the remark about Cher tickets. Just like Iowa State had plenty of reason to fire Eustachy just on the basis of his drinking Natural Light

Date: May 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: foot soldier
"Cher tickets. That's worth firing him for all by itself."

Purchasing Cher tickets does not merit firing; it merits firing and permanent exile to Siberia.

Date: May 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: USM Sympathizer
"Purchasing Cher tickets does not merit firing; it merits firing and permanent exile to Siberia."

Hey, wait a minute...how can you not like "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves?" "Half-Breed??" The woman is a musical genius! (Not to mention her Oscar for Moonstruck and all of that plastic surgery...she's indestructible!).

Date: May 2, 2005

O'Brien was one of four finalists for President at Clemson in 1995. (You may recall that Horace Fleming was another one of the four.)

O'Brien also came across as more likeable than a couple of the others. Of course, most candidates would have come across as more likeable than Deno Curris, who eventually got the nod from our Board of Trustees.

Whew! Clemson was lucky not to get O'Brien.

Robert Campbell

Date: May 2, 2005

If you don't like Cher, you should see Suspect. she and Liam neeson are terrific!