When the parents of the meager number of 2009 Summer graduates of ULM enter Fant-Ewing Coliseum, they will greeted by an extra chair on the head stage for Her Highness the Commissioner of Higher Education, Sally Clausen EdD ($377,000 salary). Seems she called at the last second demanding a place.
The last time Sally came for a tête-à-tête with a president at ULM it was Lawson Swearingen, Jr. JD. During their private din-din in the Tower of Power, she lowered the sword of Damocles on Swearingen. He was gone in a few months after, although half of his salary was still paid from the ULM operating budget until last year.
This time Sally is coming to sup with James Cofer Ed.D ($252,886 salary on the table), and the odds are very good that they won’t be talking about the mostly women faculty and staff assassinated this summer by him and his Gang of Four; nor will they be discussing the myriad of successful academic programs he and the Gang of Four have killed; nor will they be talking about the miserable failure of his athletic programs.
No one in the legislature or the boards of higher education and control really cares a wit about faculty, staff, academic programs, or students for that matter. Sally and Jim will be talking about the $80,000,000 in debt that Cofer has saddled the state with for the construction of “dormitories.”
You see up to now Cofer has only been paying a smidgen of the interest on this money from the ULM budget. This school year he has to start paying all the interest and when the final domino falls in a couple of years he will have to pay the principal too. For a school with enrollment levels being maintained by concurrently enrolled high school students who do not occupy dormitories, where is the money going to come from?
So Saturday Jimmy will be served his last supper a la Swearingen by Sally and Airmark Inc. Sayonara Jimmy Boy.
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