CALIFORNIA HATIN’
(In response to Greg Dillard’s Oct. 25 article “Volleyball excited for Pac-10 expansion.”)
[The University of California] Berkeley is forced to cut sports. When UC Berkeley announced its elimination of baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics, and women’s lacrosse teams and its defunding of the national champion men’s rugby team, Chancellor [Robert Birgeneau] sighed, “Sorry, but this was necessary!”
But was it? Yes, the university is in dire financial straits. Yet $3 million was somehow found to pay the Bain consulting firm to uncover waste and inefficiencies in UC Berkeley, despite the fact that a prominent East Coast university was doing the same thing without consultants. […]
Students, staff, faculty and California legislators are the victims of [Birgeneau’s] incompetence. Now that sports teams are feeling the pinch, perhaps the California Alumni Association, benefactors and donators, and the UC Board of Regents will demand to know why Birgeneau is raking in $500,000 a year despite the abdication of his responsibilities.
[This letter writers], who has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at University of California Berkeley, where he was able to observe the culture and the way the senior management operates.
Milan Moravec
Online Reader
