10.31.2003
Goldin questions potential BU trustees' conflicts of interest
Patrick Healey for the Globe: "Goldin, who accepted the BU presidency in August and is scheduled to take office tomorrow, has alienated top BU trustees and outgoing leader John Silber, sources have said, because he planned to let some of the current trustees go, appoint new ones, sideline Silber from university affairs, and overhaul business practices on the board of trustees -- major changes after 32 years during which Silber, as president and then chancellor of BU, appointed close allies to the board and largely crafted BU's current management and business policies..."
Silber has stepped down, according to this article by Marcella Bombardieri. The university will try to get out a severance package, but Goldin is looking like he's going to fight for it, since he hired the Clintons' lawyer, Robert Barnett.
Globe columnist Brian McGrory has this lead: "You know it's gotten bad at Boston University when the owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey quits the board of trustees in a huff because the whole thing has become too much of a circus..."
Kevin Rothstein writes that it was a speech Goldin made to the board of trustees that sent them scrambling to get rid of him.
And from the campus press: Several members of the board of trustees won't be attending, for several reaons.
Students express their sentiments: some have been "talking about it all day," others don't know, don't care.
October 18 DFP interview with Silber. He comments on Goldin, and answers a DFP question about his severance package:
Silber: ...But I don’t have any financial reward. There’s no golden parachute out there waiting for me. I’ll float down on the basis of what I’ve already earned. Lord, you’re nosy.
DFP: Well, that’s our job.
Silber: Well, that’s okay. That’s a perfectly fair question.
The editorial opines on the end of an era. In the letters arena, "Students must fuel change," writes one, "BU Trustees wise to question Goldin temperament," writes another. An alumnus comments, "Silber leadership past expiration date."
Silber has stepped down, according to this article by Marcella Bombardieri. The university will try to get out a severance package, but Goldin is looking like he's going to fight for it, since he hired the Clintons' lawyer, Robert Barnett.
Globe columnist Brian McGrory has this lead: "You know it's gotten bad at Boston University when the owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey quits the board of trustees in a huff because the whole thing has become too much of a circus..."
Kevin Rothstein writes that it was a speech Goldin made to the board of trustees that sent them scrambling to get rid of him.
And from the campus press: Several members of the board of trustees won't be attending, for several reaons.
Students express their sentiments: some have been "talking about it all day," others don't know, don't care.
October 18 DFP interview with Silber. He comments on Goldin, and answers a DFP question about his severance package:
Silber: ...But I don’t have any financial reward. There’s no golden parachute out there waiting for me. I’ll float down on the basis of what I’ve already earned. Lord, you’re nosy.
DFP: Well, that’s our job.
Silber: Well, that’s okay. That’s a perfectly fair question.
The editorial opines on the end of an era. In the letters arena, "Students must fuel change," writes one, "BU Trustees wise to question Goldin temperament," writes another. An alumnus comments, "Silber leadership past expiration date."
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