“Will work 3/4 time so have time to campaign,” Madden wrote in an e-mail after accepting the $110,000 per year position. “Dream job for me!!”
Higher education in America faces a slew of serious problems. Discussions in blogs and journals and at academic conventions show that professors around the country are well aware of these
“If scholarship athletes are in fact employees — they must be paid minimum wage and overtime for all hours spent devoted to their employment. This would include mandatory study halls, weight training and any time the student was restricted to campus, dorm or hotel. This creates huge potential liability under federal and state law…”
In an ideal world, Xcel would extract as much as possible from Boulder and its citizens, force their rates way up, then give the rest of its customers a break on our rates. That’s an updated version of Soapy Smith’s old dictum: “We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.”
