The piece of journalism everyone in Ohio is talking about that doesn’t have to do with a woman accidentally marrying her father (you know you clicked on that one, don’t lie) is courtesy of the Dayton Daily News. The paper pried a bunch of public records from OSU that showed President Gordon Gee has expensive taste in . . . well, just about everything.
Since Gee grabbed the top job at the school in 2007, he’s pulled down about $8.6 million for the effort; according to the paper, in that same time period he’s racked up $7.7 million in expenses. Obviously, with those types of numbers, we’re not talking about the occasional Moons Over My Hammy or a night at the Howard Johnson off I-76. Although those costs aren’t fronted by taxpayers, they are hitching up some eyebrows, what with Gee already in the books as the highest paid head of a public university in the country.
Some of the perks Gee is able to pass off to the school seem pretty reasonable for a guy with such a large job. Is this one really any surprise?
His contract and university policy provide him with up to $20,000 a year in financial planning and tax preparation, a car for business and personal use, a fully staffed residence, and authority to charge to the university the cost of business breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2012.
Underwear Boy and the owners of the censorship rag in Columbus have more control over the OSU money and power aspect of education then perhaps any other giant university in the country. Columbus is run by at least ten powerful individuals and their networks of power and control. Underwear Boy and his wife are at the top of the list….and also Censorship, republican newspaper of 100+years Boy and family also share the top power of the top of the Columbus power network. There is pretty much only one guy who says anything and that is a lawyer who seeks political office with the green-party. He has a newspaper in Columbus, or did, which is less known than the Amherst News Times (Amherst Ohio, and not NY). The conservatives have owned Columbus for over one hundred years and now have the wonder boy in the Governor’s Mansion–No, he said he’d rather live in Westerville where he can be a little closer to Underewearville…or is it New Underwearville?
Ugh.