Posted on 06/28/2007 7:44:11 PM PDT by george76
BOULDER — University of Colorado students paid $160,000 in April to hear former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan say the people of the world must work together to bring about peace.
The amount came as a surprise Wednesday to several members of CU's board of regents, who saw the figure on a routine list of speakers and their fees for the school year that just ended.
Annan was far ahead of the second-highest-paid speaker, liberal historian and activist Howard Zinn, who received $15,500.
The amount for the one-hour speech brought calls from some regents for more frequent audits of student government, which has a $33.8 million annual budget and oversees most campus speaking engagements. It hasn't had a full review in four years, though the student health center has been monitored, campus auditor Jean Stewart told the board.
"It's a large budget, and you have young, inexperienced people (in student government)," Regent Tom Lucero said following the Wednesday meeting. He raised the question of Annan's fee.
Of the $160,000, Annan received $100,000. The rest was for transportation, lodging, food and two security men...
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Ward is still getting his paycheck and benefits too.
Last week CU was crying that they had to raise the tuition...
geeze
Boudler is expensive, but not that expensive...
How many students could have received their education for that amount?
Nice ‘work’ for kids ?
student government has a $33.8M budget? with little or no oversight???
I’m in Colorado, and had we known Kofi was going to be here, we would have Freeped him. I’ll share a little story about CU:
Back when the anti-gunners and Million Mom March were in full swing, Charlton Heston came ot speak at CU. The university paid him $25,000, and the leftists had a fit. They organized a big protest and the local Tyranny Response Team came out to counter protest.
Visualize this: Two hundred screaming college kids, a line of police tape, a street full of cops, more police tape, and two hundred pro second amendment counter protestors screaming back. It was wild. The little college girls were chanting some litle chant that went “2,4,6,8, blah, blah, blah...” over and over. Suddenly there came the opposing chant from our side “GUNS STOP RAPE! GUNS STOP RAPE!.........”. The horror on their faces! You would have thought someone had just kicked their dog. LOL!
Hestons speech was excellent, I thought CU got a good bang for their buck.
... liberal historian and activist Howard Zinn, who received $15,500Make that "Leftist (the very leftest) historian..." So Zinn commands $15K a speech? Only at a university. I'd love to see his tax return. It's probably a chapter unto itself in the "A (rich, greedy, & hypocritical) People's History."
Apparently, no one knew that Kofi was speaking.
He deserved a FReep.
Kofi got a sweet NYC housing deal too.
Hmmm, 60 Grand to cover transportation, lodging, food and two security goons.
Did they buy an airline? Rent an entire hotel? Buy food for the entire illegal immigrant community? Pay the goons $20,000 per night?
This smells like 4 day old Hillary fish.
Mom and Dad are going to get hit another 14 percent next year on tuition.
Cheaper for illegals ?
Where were you Kofi when people were getting slaughtered in Rwanda???
$100,000 to hear Coffee Cup Anal?...A total rip-off!
If Annan revealed to the audience just how to set up and run a multi-million dollar oil for food scam it will be money well spent.
The students will all be set for life..
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Thursday he would head a new green group bankrolled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to help reverse Africa's declining food production and double output.
How could they do business with this moron?
Things like this drive me "nucking futs"!
They would have to pay me that much to go listen.
They billed the parents for the student fees...like to increase next year too.
Thank you mom and dad.
some speeches are worth $160,000, but Kofi Annan has never given one ...
If the University of Colorado student government has so much money that that it can squander a speaker’s fee of that size on the vapid musings of the former United Nations secretary-general, as it did in April, maybe that’s a sign that it is grossly overfunded.
http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/onpoint/archives/2007/06/carroll_pricey_kofi_klatch.html
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