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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>>>…<span style='color:#1F497D'> Today’s headlines hit close to home, being heavily invested as I am in online education…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>… What headlines? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This one. I paid them thousands, and it all went bad:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/08/26/south-florida-woman-arrested-for-botched-penile-enlargement-that-left-patient/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork">http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/08/26/south-florida-woman-arrested-for-botched-penile-enlargement-that-left-patient/?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kidding, bygones. This one (sheesh):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/02/clinton-sought-invite-laureate-state-dept-dinner">https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/02/clinton-sought-invite-laureate-state-dept-dinner</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My own alma mater had an honorary chancellor. He didn’t need to actually do anything, and was “paid” with the tacit understanding he would donate all the money back to the college (so the honorary (and honorable) recipient didn’t pay any tax on his “salary.”) The college gave him a plaque to note his generosity and support in giving back his honorary paycheck. They intentionally chose a rich guy (O.D. McKee (the founder and owner of Little Debbie Bakery Products)) hoping he would give back more than he was paid (which he did several times over (so do devour Little Debbie products.)) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This story makes it sound like Laureate International University’s “honorary” chancellor Clinton may have kept the “salary.” Those of us who performed heroics of meager frugality, making our finest achievements in the field of parsimonious austerity in our college days to get by on practically nothing while working our boney asses off to pay the tuition will likely take note of this story. Plenty of us have been there. When students are living in… well never mind… and in some cases selling their bodies (not mine (couldn’t give it away)) to pay the bills, honorable people do not keep “salaries” for “honorary” positions. That’s something a Dishonorary Chancellor would do. Bad move, BillC, baaaaad move, shame.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>