By: Karl Spaulding

Karl Spaulding
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:09:15 +0000

I appreciate knowing this information, and in my opinion, University elites need to be more receptive and available to both student journalists and other student, faculty and staff organizations. Unfortunately, my impression of academic administrators is that they are comprised of a separate subculture, overly influenced by their obscenely high pay, weird perks and other trappings of power. They’ve moved solidly within the perview of Lord Acton’s dictum and thus are unable to relate to “the commoners.”

As such, the Academe has become a severely stratified institution of limited thought patterns, being led by an elite steeped not so much in academics as in socioeconomic privilege and hierarchical values instead of human ones.

If OSU were a private corporation I wouldn’t be complaining. However, we’re supposed to be a “land grant university.” We’re all supposed to be “public servants.” Unfortunately at OSU, some of these “servants” think nothing of their six figure salaries and their five and sometimes six figure bonuses, and that’s only one aspect of my criticism!

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” -Patton

“People, ideas and hardware–In that order!” Col. John Boyd, USAF

Karl