Westy03 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Good for her. Finally someone tells biondi to shove it. This is the exact way he runs the athletic department and is probably the main reason why our academic rankings as a whole have been slipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Good for her. Finally someone tells biondi to shove it. This is the exact way he runs the athletic department and is probably the main reason why our academic rankings as a whole have been slipping. ++ That letter is scathing. How are they going to fill her position now, in light of all this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy03 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 ++ That letter is scathing. How are they going to fill her position now, in light of all this? Yeah this will set the law school back even further. Sad thing is Biondi won't even blink an eye at this. Just keep doing what he's doing. Don Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouisvilleBilliken Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Wow! This is not good, considering all of the recent developments of for the law school. Biondi about to get some bad press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Why do I get the feeling that every Dean in the university could write a similar letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbofive Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 why am i surprised? i don't care if he's a priest or not. he's a gotdamn ######. i can't wait to find out that he's been funding his own little secret joy brigade for years w/ all these cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Rich Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Why do I get the feeling that every Dean in the university could write a similar letter. Nearly every middle manager at every firm or corporation in America could write a similiar letter at the present time. Must be nice to be able to afford to burn a bridge so completely........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Why do I get the feeling that every Dean in the university could write a similar letter. Cheryl Levick certainly could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikendave Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 here is the long form letter to university faculty and staff. Same things but more detail. http://www.scribd.com/doc/102368276/SLU-Law-Dean-Annette-Clark-Resignation-Announcement-to-Faculty-Staff-8-8-2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 -wow, i guess she posted the letter and that is how it became public, as Billiken rich said a complete bridge burning EXCEPT she says she will keep her faculty position, not quite sure how this is possible or how long the U will allow this, does it show more if she left the U as opposed to still being employed by it?? to me it would have, a big step no doubt but could have been more powerful if she left -can it be true that SLU gets the gift of the bldg downtown and FrB declares it to be the new home of the law school without the law school knowing about it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 can it be true that SLU gets the gift of the bldg downtown and FrB declares it to be the new home of the law school without the law school knowing about it?? That would not surprise me one bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikendave Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 would That would not surprise me one bit. me either. The downtown law school thing (while I think overall pretty good for the university) was from left field. The announcement was that it was to open this fall -- a ridiculous time frame if you have seen the state of the building and have considered all the things that would have to be done to make that happen. That got walked back to next year. It sounded anything but methodically planned out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy03 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Whats the point of having Deans/Heads of departments? Biondi runs everything anyway, if we cut all of them out it would save the university a lot money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Biondi giveth and Biondi taketh away. We're only getting one side of the story here but she seems to lay out some valid points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 How soon before the, "Yeah, but the campus is SO much nicer now then when I went there 30 years ago" argument? I'm also curious, A-Bomb, to see what his response is, if any. But what could the other side be- that none of these things happened? That the $260,000 he transferred from the law school to his own discretionary fund was just coincidentally in the amount of 20 summer research stipends? That informing the law school dean 3 days ahead of the public that the new downtown building would be the new law school counts as a mutual decision? He's got a lot of explaining to do- or he would, if he were ever held accountable by anyone for anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy03 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 That the $260,000 he transferred from the law school to his own discretionary fund .This happens to the Athletic Department more then people would want to believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Hey, at least our rankings are up. Oh, wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillikenFriar Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 A dean position is separate from a faculty position. If she was already faculty or brought in as a dean, she negotiated a step-down position and salary for herself. In other words, she can tell Biondi to lump it and he can't do shite about it. At least not above board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouisvilleBilliken Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 A dean position is separate from a faculty position. If she was already faculty or brought in as a dean, she negotiated a step-down position and salary for herself. In other words, she can tell Biondi to lump it and he can't do shite about it. At least not above board. Don't be so sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billiken Law Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 when I was part of SBA Biondi told us "I don't give a damn about the law school." It (like many other law schools, to be fair) has been viewed as a revenue generator for the university and not much more by those outside of the law school administration. In 2005, when I graduated, we were ranked in the top 80, now we're what, 105? Michigan State, my "if nobody else accepts me I'll go there" school was 4th tier in 2002, now they're above SLU. I applaud what the Dean did here but unless things significantly change they will have one hell of a tough time getting anyone worth a damn to take the position. it would be nice if when I tell people I went to law school "at Saint Louis" for the response to not be "Oh, Wash U?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbofive Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Don't be so sure. little orphan annie sleeps with the fishes. biondi will kill her himself, in public. biondi don't give a FUOK. got his windows down and his system up. sprayin' all over motherfuokers from up high. no mercy. hope fools is thirsty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCoastBilliken Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 it would be nice if when I tell people I went to law school "at Saint Louis" for the response to not be "Oh, Wash U?" haha, yes. Every single time. "No, its a school like five minutes from there though" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 This happens to the Athletic Department more then people would want to believe That's my fear- that it's not just the law school (at least twice, per the letter), but every department. How can Biondi get away with taking huge lumps from individual departments' funds and putting them in his own discretionary fund? He apparently answers to no one. I honestly don't have a strong grasp of how the Jesuits operate, but doesn't he report to a larger province? Do they weigh in on matters at each university at all or do the presidents make their own decisions? Is there any review process? He appears to have fleeced the law school for $1,060,000, and that's just what her letter details. I really wonder how much he takes from other departments to pad his own fund. And I wonder how this is possibly acceptable to the Jesuits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Metzinger Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 Isn't Biondi from Chicago? No further questions, your honor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 There are a couple other things that stand out to me from this letter, aside from the larger questions about how SLU's president operates. For one, I could not believe he insisted that law professors have cubicles instead of offices. It's crazy that a school president would get into that level of detail for an individual school or department's new building. But it's disturbing that he'd treat tenured professors like interns. Certainly this would be unacceptable to the professors themselves and in the long run would be bad for morale, then retention, and definitely can't help the school's already plummeting ranking. Second, and even more troubling, is that he'd de-fund summer research interns. A law school's ranking depends partly on the research done by its professors; if they don't have assistants, they're way more limited in the research they can do. To take this away because he's miffed at the dean (assuming her hunch is correct), Biondi's pettiness is directly hurting the law school's ranking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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