Another Voice of Dr. Wise

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Apparently the $900,000 taxpayers pay U.W. president Mark Emmert isn’t enough; he gets another $220K for squatting on the board of Expeditors International.

EI has a contract with the U.W., worth $250,000 a year, to handle international shipping of goods used by the U.W.

And Emmert gets another $140,000 a year to squat on Weyerhauser’s board of directors. That’s a lot of money for “attend[ing] a meeting once every couple months,” which makes me think the Big W’s 140K buys influence, not time or skills.

And U.W. Provost Phyllis Wise has come under fire for accepting a $200,000-a-year gig with Nike to supplement her $650K university pay. Nike has business dealings with the U.W.: It licenses trademarks to sell merchandise with the U.W. logo, among other things. Nike also has a slimy public image from, among other things, allegedly exploiting workers in third world countries under what amounts to slave-labor conditions to make its products on the cheap, and it’s reasonable to assume the company benefits from having people like Wise on its board to project an aura of respectability that, in real life, it may, allegedly, in fact not have.

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/12/possible_uw_sanction_against_n.php

SO WHERE IS GOVERNOR GREGOIRE?

I mean, isn’t the U.W. a state agency? Isn’t the U.W. funded, at least to some miniscule extent, by federal and state TAX DOLLARS? Is the governor asleep? Isn’t she supposed to be the boss of bosses, the person who supervises the bosses of state agencies and universities, the gal in charge of doing something about agency heads and top managements, who get paid big bucks to act in the public’s name for the public interest, who are on the take from private corporations in what clearly are conflicts of interest and/or socially undesireable activities? Isn’t Gov. Gregoire supposed to be the ultimate protector of the values we hold dear as citizens? Such as NOT USING OUR STATE’S PREMIERE UNIVERSITY TO FACILITATE THE ENSLAVING POOR GUATEMALAN WORKERS to enrich soulless tycoons like Phil Knight?

Hello? Gov. Christine? Is anyone alive out there?"