Comments on: A commencement myth debunked http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/quadview/2008/03/05/a-commencement-myth-debunked/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:49:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mitchell http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/quadview/2008/03/05/a-commencement-myth-debunked/#comment-1533 Mitchell Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:04:31 +0000 http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/quadview/2008/03/05/a-commencement-myth-debunked/#comment-1533 If by "using the University's resources on other things" you mean things like an ugly arch on the Quad, new structures to hang fliers around campus that came down as quickly as they went up, and expensive plaques to replace greek letters on the dorms, then you are correct. But to say that the resources are going to faculty is a serious embellishment. If this were true, their salaries would match the salaries of similar universities, not lag behind. Lets be serious, President Hatch makes four times as much as the highest asking price for a speaker, and all he's done is thrown away the SAT. So, when a student who has just paid over 120,000 dollars for an education wants a speaker she will remember at her college commencement ceremony, I don't think it is unreasonable. If by “using the University’s resources on other things” you mean things like an ugly arch on the Quad, new structures to hang fliers around campus that came down as quickly as they went up, and expensive plaques to replace greek letters on the dorms, then you are correct. But to say that the resources are going to faculty is a serious embellishment. If this were true, their salaries would match the salaries of similar universities, not lag behind. Lets be serious, President Hatch makes four times as much as the highest asking price for a speaker, and all he’s done is thrown away the SAT.

So, when a student who has just paid over 120,000 dollars for an education wants a speaker she will remember at her college commencement ceremony, I don’t think it is unreasonable.

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