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Reading this and having a grim chuckle. Some of it is at my alma mater's expense; my OSU experience was decidedly mixed, so of course I'll read this uncharitably. But at a deeper level past my own peculiar schadenfreude, it's bleak to look at this because it says some very bad things about university administration. This is small-g graft. The university president tried to allocate university resources to a woman for a PODCAST (and it must be added, an especially shitty looking one); when that failed, he wheedled a state agency into giving her tens of thousands of dollars. If there's a silver lining, it's that the university managed to inoculate itself against their bullshit, but this was so transparently corrupt: it really makes me worry about the stuff people are getting away with, and the fact that universities aren't just budgets for legislators to rob; they're also prizes for the rent-seekers. https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-inappropriate-relationship-sunk-ohio-states-leader-a-new-report-spills-the-details