Fake Goldin
Daniel Goldin backed out of the President position at Boston University just before a vote was to be held by the Board of Trustees to determine his future. Goldin also got a $2 million severance package for a job he never had–that’s $2 million more that John Silber has cost the University he abuses like a red-headed stepchild.
Dr. Aram Chobanian, the dean of the BU Medical School, will be the interim president as the search begins anew. Silber supposedly stepped down as chancellor/fuehrer (don’t know how to do umlauts, so I added the “e”) and as a Board of Trustee member at the meeting, but I won’t believe his iron hand has let go of the Unversity until I see his death notice in the paper. And even then, it might take driving a wooden stake through his icy heart to convince me.
For another alumnus’ perspective, check out this letter to the editor, with which I completely agree.