Whether you’re fighting off attacks of midday munchies due to boycotting vending machines or not, you’ve probably heard about the recent administrative activity that has the student body talking quite angrily – actually, they’re just downright pissed off.
At its most rudimentary level, the current tíÈte-íæ-tíÈte between students and the FAU administration is over the subject of financial compensation. Students across campus feel that the amount of money allocated to Lawrence Davenport, former executive vice president of university advancement, was unjustly earned and worse yet, believe that the money used to do so rightfully belongs to the students.
University of Florida transfer student Johann Rodriguez doesn’t mince words, saying, “Those machines take my dollar every now and then, and I get all pissed off… Now I know why it does so,” Rodriguez says. “Every dollar that the machine takes from me and doesn’t give me a Coke, it goes to this. f&*K that! I want my .003 percent of $577,950 back!!!!”
FAU President Brogan recently issued a university-wide statement, wherein he attempted to quell the bloodlust of students by matter-of-factly explaining the situation in an orderly, albeit monotone, fashion. In his message, Brogan referred to the recent uproar of students as “considerable commentary.” But students like Josef Palermo, a senior majoring in Pre-law, refer to the current scandal as the “Davenport Debacle.”
Palermo, who has recently achieved cult-level fame on Facebook for both his battle-cry rallying students to boycott vending machines and his Payne Stewart-eqsue chapeau, says, “I’ve worked hard on campus.
I’m not the type of person that makes waves. The more and more I thought about this, the more I became pissed.”
All joking aside, Palermo is not the only student concerned about Brogan’s manufacturing of golden parachutes.
Just ask senior Kay Trudel, who, in a recent post for the Facebook group ,said, “Hey, President Brogan: WE WANT OUR $577,950 BACK!…Let’s plan another protest! We need to make more people aware of this, because we cannot let Brogan get away with this. They say the reason there aren’t more classes offered is because lack of funding, but somehow there was $577,950 to give to Davenport! BS; and this personally affects me too, because now I can’t graduate until December. It’s time we take action!!”
In case you missed the university wide e-mail from Brogan you can read it at http://www.fau.edu/explore/statement.php.
