U of I President’s Chief of Staff resigns due to investigation
Lisa Troyer, Chief of Staff to President Hogan, resigned Friday "amid an investigation into whether she sent anonymous emails posing as a faculty leader to try to influence a faculty decision."
Link to the Chicago Tribune.
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Just to stimulate conversation, the following is what I posted at N-G online in response to this article.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/education/2012-01-10/questions-remain-about-ui-execs-future-campus.html
ust think how informative it could be if the N-G wrote an investigative article about the cost to the university, hence taxpayers, to “compensate, pay off, or whatever term” to all of the people who have recently been removed for the various issues that have happened at the university. Most of the costs are public domain information, but retirement and health insurance costs would have to be added. Another variable might be added—the huge increase in administrator salaries and huge increase in number of administrators within the last 3 years. Then take this estimated bottomline amount and figure out how many individuals who lost their jobs at the university could have remained employed.
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The News-Gazette is not run by a publisher, a corporation, or other for-profit organization.
It is an unelected mouth organ of the University of Illinois. The News-Gazette is run by a “foundation.” For real.
That Newsletter/no-newspaper will never run a story critical or even questionits biggest advertiser, the university. Especially since its foundation board members profit from keeping the community in the dark.
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The News-Gazette’s reluctance to criticize its advertisers have led to some hysterical juxtapositions in its news coverage. So timid was it to ruffle the feathers of its biggest sugar daddy, the University, the N-G and its radio station sat on a story years ago that was brewing for weeks among the basketball team. It seems that three of its players, a group that included starter Luther Head, were suddenly and without reason disciplined by having to sit out the first three games. Official reasons according to the News-Gazette was “in-house discipline regarding some team rules”. Then came a call from one of the news anchors from the radio station that somebody better put some journalism on the story, because the Chicago Sun-Times had interviewed Luther Head’s high school coach to find out what happened, and it turns out, Luther and the boys had been caught stealing and damaging about $3000 worth of electronic equipment from somebody’s apartment while the occupants were home. State’s Attorney John Piland then talked to the victims of the residential burglary and convinced them to not press charges because the “firestorm” in the media for them would be similar to what happened to the hapless fan who got in the way of the foul ball during the Cubs NL Championship series in 2003.
Not that it’s just the University the N-G cowtows to. Provena Hospital was the first hospital in the nation to have their tax exemption pulled on account of mistreating the poor. The Wall Street Journal did a four page cover story on it, and all the national papers, including the Chicago papers, covered the story as being an alarming trend for hospitals who did not offer charity care for indigent patients, and the first domino to fall was the outrageous things this hospital did in Champaign, IL. You wouldn’t have known that from local coverage, as the N-G and WDWS did its best to not cover the national story in its own backyard. Eventually, the N-G offered itself as a platform to defend Provena, though the courts upheld the ruling against Provena years later.
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represent, Matt.
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