Sell the Japanese Garden? Here is another way to save $139K
by islandbruin on Jan 24, 2012 6:24 AM PST
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PrintFire Dan Guerrero !!!!
We could certainly find somebody at $139K less per year, who would be competent.
In the meantime, with the fixation on facilities, as a cost saving measure, there is another piece of real estate which is not being used for academic or research purposes- Dan Guerrero's office.
Let's move him out of his office, and sublet the space. The university gets money (which Block wants above all else, apparently) and we don't lose anything in terms of academics or research.
Dan Guerrero clearly needs space to work. Otherwise, how could he continue to strap it on every morning for our benefit? Let's get him a chair and desk, and park it on Bruin Walk.
That way he could do his job, and he could hear first hand from some of the people he is affecting most- the students who he wanted to park in the wrong seats at the new Pauley.
To be fair to Dan, he should get bathroom breaks and lunch breaks. So let's have Chancellor Block man his station on Bruin Walk in his absence. This could be the first time he feels so connected to his dreaded student body. It would do him some good.
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At least $139K -
Again it can’t be said enough – Dan Guerrero reportedly is the highest paid AD in the Pac-12 making 700k per season.
Unbelievable, isn't it?
So if we lop off $139K (the amount they want to save on Japanese Garden), that would still leave $561K for the new athletic director. I am guessing that we could find somebody for that amount who would not blow off wealthy alums, would not schedule all “home” games on the chief rivals campus, would not set up coaches to fail with hand-picked coordinators, etc.
Chancellor Block is acting like Selig’s elite committee, which has been looking into possible locations for the A’s for the last 3 years with no recommendation.
If he wants money for the school (and he should), there is low hanging fruit right in front of him- oust Dan and watch the alienated supporters come back with their ticket revenue and donations. Seems much easier than having his facilities guy looking under every rock to uncover buildings which don’t fit Block’s narrow definition of utility. Oh well.
when Blockhead dismissed criticism of the Penguin months ago.....
….. I questioned how many other UCLA departments are being screwed up at this time. Pawning the Japanese Garden is another indicator…
This stinks
the whole thing reeks. Now UCLA will be selling off donated properties and gifts. Anyone else for a limb and a leg? How will future alumni make any kind of gifts to the university knowing that it might just get sold off for a quick buck
The Japanese Garden Monetary Unit of Measure- Fight Hunger Bowl Cost 3 Gardens
Thanks to DG’s actions in allowing (or causing) our football program to plummet, the school only sold 3300 of the committed allotment for the Fight Hunger Bowl. Assuming the same distribution of sold seats as unsold seats among the 3 price categories (no way to know, but it seems reasonable as any other assumption), that meant a $400K shortfall which the school had to cover. So DG cost us 3 gardens ($139K each) with that action alone.
Stanford had no trouble selling their allotment for the Fiesta Bowl. And for sure Oregon had no trouble selling their allotment for the Rose Bowl.
We need a new gardener.
by islandbruin on Jan 24, 2012 9:01 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
I already changed a bequest.
I was leaving the ultimate gift to the UCLA med school – my cadaver. I really don’t think it’s very classy to sell a bequest, so I’m not going to tempt Gene “Show Me The Money” Block. I don’t want him re-gifting my knee.
Well...uh...
…that’s already happened at UCLA…sadly…
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
The Japanese Gardens
reflect peace and spirit, and are an honor to culture and tradition.
Kind of the exact opposite of Chianti.
Make the trade, Chancellor.
greg in denver, U.C.L.A. guy for life - BruinsNation.com
Instead of cutting $139k from the budget
I volunteer to take the job of AD for just $139k because I’m such a nice guy like that.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I tweeted my followers to ask which I should take
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jan 24, 2012 2:04 PM PST reply actions
UCLA now Blocking communications
When I googled “UCLA Japanese Garden”, there were a bunch of sites with reaction to the sale, but no reference to a UCLA official site.
This seemed rather odd. In going through the sites, I came across a UCLA Faculty Association blog
http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com
This blog points out that the administration shut down the Japanese Garden website. They also sent the phone number for the Japanese Garden, which is listed in the faculty handbook, into the stratosphere. Apparently, if you call that number, it just rings and rings- no ability to leave a message.
So now Block is turning his back on the faculty on at least one of his decisions. We already know that he doesn’t give a damn about alums. Who is left?
They took a survey
And the majority of the people they responded to wanted to sell. This survey may or may not have consisted of Block himself, but the point is that there was a survey and the result is to be interpreted as the will of the people.
It was probably the same pollster
saying students would love to have separate sections in Pauley.
Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.
There is a lot of precedent for this sort of survey, island
In 1991, Saddam Hussein took a survey of his generals as to whether it would be a good idea to invade Kuwait. The surveys in Tripoli kept coming up with unanimous votes that brother Moammar should say as the Big Cheese. Stalin always came out as the overwhelming favorite to run the Soviet Union. No comparisons are ever allowed to N*zi G*ermany and, we’ll call him, Badolf Bitler.
I think you get my point. We are alumni of a university run by a complete douchebag. I wish I could add an ending to this post that is Walter Cronkite signing off – “And that’s the way it is.”
The sad irony of this all
is that by trying to sell the property, UCLA’s administration has made awareness of the Japanese Garden greater than ever before.
The Garden has always seemed like a little secret. Hardly anyone on campus knew it existed until recently. For students, it was too far away to visit amid weekday classes, anyway, and for staff and alumni, it was inaccessible on weekends. Thus even those who knew it existed had almost no opportunity to appreciate it in person.
If the Garden gets sold, the sale will be an affront to the generous Carter family. If any positive outcome results from a transaction, it may be that the Garden will become available to visitors on weekends. Even if UCLA’s administration keeps the property, maybe the responsible staff will finally make it easier for the community to understand where the Garden is, when it’s open, and how to visit it.
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