Putting $8,500 in perspective

So it cost $8,500 to clean up and repair the Occupy UC Davis site. Let’s put that number in perspective. $8,500 is:

* What Chancellor Linda Katehi is paid in just over a week;

* Less than the $8,916 “automobile allowance” offered to hire Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter two years ago;

* About what the average assistant professor earns in six weeks;

* Half a year tuition for California resident undergraduates.

But look on the bright side. Maybe those cleanup custodians picked up some well-deserved overtime pay for the holidays.

R.P. Neuman

Davis

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Posted by Letters to the Editor on Dec 20 2011.
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