Insanity in CT

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

This has me very, very jealous. I miss the days of 1am DP Dough deliveries and waking up at noon and grabbing and ice cream from the Dairy Bar.

I can taste that cheeseburger grinder from Teds, washed down with a chocolate shake from the Dairy Bar.

We'll agree to disagree. I was there before you and after you (hiatus in the Marines). While it's less of a "party school" now, even when it was a party school, I would not call it a place where public safety was a major challenge. How much violent crime occurs there? Not much at all. The security forces at Yale (New Haven), Trinity (Hartford), and Wesleyan (Middletown, CT) have it much tougher (in my opinion) because of the socio-economics of the surrounding areas.

Even if the guy has some good accomplishments, he should not be a multi-millionaire on the backs of middle class taxpayers. Not in this economy. He probably makes more than the Commandant of the Marine Corps. I have trouble swallowing that in terms of relative responsibility. And he for sure makes more than the top cop in New York City, which I find mind-boggling...



I liked my time there, though the math department was pretty weak IMO. Not a bad place to spend a few years, that's for sure.

[RIROCKHOUND]

So, if 36% of there money comes from the state and the rest is tuition generated, then the state is paying approximately 90K of his salary, as opposed to NYC that is paying all of their chief.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

So, if 36% of there money comes from the state and the rest is tuition generated, then the state is paying approximately 90K of his salary, as opposed to NYC that is paying all of their chief.

Congrats, you did the math correctly. Can we (the taxpayers) get our 90k back? Because if his salary was 90k less, or 160k, I am sure that the state would still have many qualified candidates to choose from.

There are no students living there for 24 weeks out of the year. It is a ghost town during that time.

Unbelievable...

[RIROCKHOUND]

I'm doing the math in jest.

Is it an easier job than the Chief of NYC? Probably.

Are there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of a states economy than the chief of police at the states largest public university.... absolutely.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

I'm doing the math in jest.

Is it an easier job than the Chief of NYC? Probably.

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No, not probably. Certainly. By many orders of magnitude. One guy has 34,000 employees, one guy has 30. One guy has 8 million residents to protect, one guy has 20,000 residents for 60% of the year,and zero for 40% of the year. One guy deals with murders every single day, one guy has a murder every 10 years.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

I'm doing the math in jest.

Are there are much bigger fish to fry in terms of a states economy than the chief of police at the states largest public university.... absolutely.

True, and many of the problem areas will have the same cause...public unions, in bed with democrats who give the unions a blank check in return for campaign support...