Kevin Carleton is the university’s mullet. Is he going to say anything other than what his bosses want him to say? If most alums were and are so mesmerized by their experiences at BU, then why is the alumni giving rate so poor? What’s Kevin Carleton’s excuse for that?
Dr. Silber has gone on record several times saying that students do not pay his salary, nor are they his customers. With such an indifferent attitude toward a constituency that he is going to be hitting up in the future, with tear-jerky references to supporting their alma mater, is it any wonder that the alumni giving rate is so poor?
I for one will not give BU so much as a tin nickel or so little as a red cent, until I am convinced that the ‘Caudillo on the Charles,’ Dr. John Silber, is no longer part of the administration.
Ahmad H.M. Ali CAS ’91