Apparently, some people in the area have not heard that Wendell Lewis is
leaving UCD (and the neighborhood) when the current term of his contract
expires
in June 2009. Do you think:
1. He was worried that the Campus Inn would go through and lower the
value of his house even more than the recession, so he thought he'd better get
out while the getting was still good.
2. The string pullers at Penn finally realized that all the non-core
activities at UCD were not only wastes of money but among the chief reasons
why
the organization is so unpopular and why the NID attempt failed so badly, so
they decided to rebuild the organization in a "leaner, meaner" form with a
real operations guy to manage "clean and safe" cost-effectively instead of an
empire builder to install expensive flags on poles along Baltimore Avenue.
3. Wendell really wants to move back to New York and live in his condo,
like he was quoted as saying in The UCReview, so his children could get the
benefit of a better private school than he could find in Philadelphia.
4. He can make more money as a consultant (maybe team up with Omar
Blaik, who undoubtedly has more work than he can handle teaching other urban
universities all about the Penn Model... whether as something to follow or
something to avoid is not known).
5. Other.
6. All of the above.
Al Krigman
reminding you that you read it first (or maybe second), here, on the
popu-list
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