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Like it or not, the good professor did invite a certain level of public scrutiny arising from his published utterances. That is all well and good, as we are constantly reminded that sunlight is the best disinfectant and so on, and by golly, it's pretty sunny where he's at, so what's he complaining about? A casual read indicates he's neither an Indian nor much of a scholar though, allegedly he plagiarized numerous works and artwork/sketches.

Maybe he's not a bad guy, but he really stepped into it. What gets me, if I had a bit of money to deal with - the tax angle on university donations is quite nice - I would find another school for my largesse and make sure the regents understood; exactly why this doesn't happen more often is inexplicable.

The tax angle works most of the time. However, and this is ONLY MY OPINION, you take a school like UT, here in Texas. Old family money, legacy money, OIL money, and basically UT acts like it's untouchable. Sometimes, the new money potential just doesn't excite the big schools. UT has a great case of "big-school-itis." I used to administrate a molecular biology lab there. I absolutely love the students and admire MOST of the bio researchers. Of course, the sports teams are wonderful too. Dealing with the beaurocrats is another story altogether. It's like talking to martians!