Susan Safran, Chair of
the UNCG Board of Trustees followed this by saying, “When the evidence comes
out, I hope you’ll understand the actions we took.”
The time has come that the truth must be told.
Provost Dunn, you have had two months since that statement
to familiarize yourself with the situation. Chairwoman Safran, the evidence is
out and it has only clarified the specious nature of the charges and the
firings.
The only conclusion that the faculty
and staff at UNCG can draw from this is that they were lied to.
It may still be unclear what all of the motivations were for
the lies, but that they have been told is not in doubt.
It is hard not to begin to wonder why Brady is protecting
Paul Mason and why the Board of Trustees is protecting her. What does Linda
Brady offer that is strong enough to hold together this melting mess that she
created?
Has her openness to real estate development ‘for’ the
university been sufficiently expansive to win her the support of ‘people who
matter’?
I can only imagine that anyone else who had so monumentally
failed in all that they had tried to do would be cut loose so quickly their
head would spin. If Mason believed that the university relations office didn’t
do enough to put a positive face on Brady’s continued flaunting and floundering,
he can’t possibly believe his own little contribution to UNCG’s presence in
papers has been anything short of disastrous.
Brady’s best hope at this point is that she will be
forgotten, allowed to run out the clock and collect her handsome retirement.
Mason is hoping he’s just elaborated his resume for further positions as
hatchet man.
Rather than turning away and passing the damage on in the
hopes that one day it will disappear of its own accord, let’s reclaim UNCG for
its students, staff, and faculty. It starts by showing support – print the owl
and display it somewhere, as your facebook profile picture, in the window of
your car, or in the window of a sympathetic store.
There are fewer of them than there are of us and army of
owls lets them know that we’re watching.
All I want for Christmas is a clean house.
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