{"id":4496,"date":"2012-01-28T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:09:27","slug":"what-will-be-the-last-sordid-act-for-richard-mccormick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"What will be the last sordid act for Richard McCormick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a researcher, Richard McCormick has been a political historian. As president of Rutgers University for the past decade, he&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsoltan.com\/?p=31983\">a jockstrap-sniffing disaster<\/a>, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-08-16\/rutgers-boosting-athletics-at-expense-of-academics-fails-to-emulate-texas.html\">funneling of money from academics to athletics<\/a>\u00a0has been roughly the same order of magnitude as declines in state support: FY 2010 athletic subsidies of $27 million against the $29 million loss in annual state funding in the FY 2010-12 period, and that doesn&#8217;t include more than $100 million in construction on the football <del>church<\/del>\u00a0stadium. McCormick&#8217;s motto: &#8220;Who needs phones in faculty offices? I wouldn&#8217;t answer their calls anyway.&#8221; As a followup to this magnificent management of funding dilemmas, McCormick&#8217;s administration took the logical step: they openly violated labor agreements, including an attempt to force faculty being promoted to accept dry (i.e., no-raise) promotions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s starting to fall apart now for McCormick as he begins his last semester as Rutgers&#8217;s Unterverwalter. Overpaid football coach Greg Schiarno left Rutgers this week for the hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u00a0The faculty union at Rutgers pressured the administration into a settlement and new collective bargaining agreement\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutgersaaup.org\/ratification-vote-2012.html\">ratified this week<\/a>. Cynical observers of Rutgers have to wonder: on what craptastic note will McCormick leave ? He has to work hard to pack some final corruption in this spring, before his yearlong sabbatical and post-Dear-Leader life as the second-most-overpaid historian in the world, behind Newt Gingrich when he was working for Freddie Mac. Will it be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/gloucester-county\/index.ssf\/2012\/01\/gov_chris_christie_supports_me.html\">breaking apart of Rutgers<\/a> with the Camden campus tossed as a bone to Rowan University while the annexation of UMDNJ becomes McCormick&#8217;s &#8220;legacy&#8221;? Will it be the hiring of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/rutgersfootball\/index.ssf\/2012\/01\/how_much_will_rutgers_pay_for.html\">another overpaid football coach<\/a>? Or is there another boondoggle sitting out there?<\/p>\n<p>I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a researcher, Richard McCormick has been a political historian. 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