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Prairie Gates

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6. You try to wrap your head around the dopes who negotiated THAT deal

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Nov 12, 2023, 02:58 PM

Nov 2023

But then you remember that they're professional university admin, with the genius trustees signing off, and all becomes clear.

These are the same trustees that spiked Kathleen McElroy's hire *after the fact* for political reasons, costing the school a $1 million dollar settlement (she went back to her tenured position at UT and banked the mil...nice work, dumbasses).

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