Important to consider that Northwestern is a private school and probably subject to slightly different pressures than publics. Not sure exactly how that changes things, but it might matter.
Public or private, though, schools are, despite whatever storied pasts they claim, businesses and beholden to their owners—moneyed interests whose values seldom extend in meaningful ways to those of the public.
As you have written elsewhere, this is yet another example of the chop-shop mentality that strips organizations down to the parts that can be sold or commoditized (if that’s a word).
Employees — or “people” as they were once known — are not currently commodities that can be bought and sold, with the possible exception of athletes.
But looky there! It’s the Ryan SPORTS Family (“family,” my ass) that has demolished the heretofore marginally public, grubby old asset and replaced it with a new one.
It’s not a donation. It’s an investment. A down payment on the Northwestern house, which the Ryan mob (and others like it) will soon own, free and clear. Screw the people.
The only Northwestern employee that matters in this acquisition is Schapiro. He’s gambling that if he sucks up sufficiently, he can become a player. The Ryanmacht and similar thugs will always be able to find capos like him to carry a meat hook and drag the dead bodies out of the way. He will get his, if there’s any justice (be prepared to discuss on the exam).
I don't know about the 'old house.' Haven't visited Evanston since the last year of the last century, but Northwestern once played more honest cards. By the way, you write extraordinarily well--not often a 'reply' is couched in language that shames my work.
I guess we must settle for every decade getting shittier, except for cel-phones and the internet. The price we paid for that is teenage suicide, Trump and conspiracy theory but, what the hell, everything has its costs.
Thanks for your comment--it was a ring-a-ding-dinger...
Important to consider that Northwestern is a private school and probably subject to slightly different pressures than publics. Not sure exactly how that changes things, but it might matter.
Public or private, though, schools are, despite whatever storied pasts they claim, businesses and beholden to their owners—moneyed interests whose values seldom extend in meaningful ways to those of the public.
As you have written elsewhere, this is yet another example of the chop-shop mentality that strips organizations down to the parts that can be sold or commoditized (if that’s a word).
Employees — or “people” as they were once known — are not currently commodities that can be bought and sold, with the possible exception of athletes.
But looky there! It’s the Ryan SPORTS Family (“family,” my ass) that has demolished the heretofore marginally public, grubby old asset and replaced it with a new one.
It’s not a donation. It’s an investment. A down payment on the Northwestern house, which the Ryan mob (and others like it) will soon own, free and clear. Screw the people.
The only Northwestern employee that matters in this acquisition is Schapiro. He’s gambling that if he sucks up sufficiently, he can become a player. The Ryanmacht and similar thugs will always be able to find capos like him to carry a meat hook and drag the dead bodies out of the way. He will get his, if there’s any justice (be prepared to discuss on the exam).
Is your old house still standing?
I don't know about the 'old house.' Haven't visited Evanston since the last year of the last century, but Northwestern once played more honest cards. By the way, you write extraordinarily well--not often a 'reply' is couched in language that shames my work.
I guess we must settle for every decade getting shittier, except for cel-phones and the internet. The price we paid for that is teenage suicide, Trump and conspiracy theory but, what the hell, everything has its costs.
Thanks for your comment--it was a ring-a-ding-dinger...