Comments on: When is a “stipend/salary adjustment (not a raise)”

By: jonpelto

jonpelto — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:51:00 +0000

I’ve certainly made my share of mistakes but I don’t think I ever did a project to back up Austin. I was involved in the Pfizer controversy – on the wrong side – as history revealed.

I recall a statement I made that was less than diplomatic when the opponents of the project said that the Pfizer project would destroy horsebarn hill and the sledding area.

Having spent much of my early life sledding on that hill I took issue with the claim. I understood why people would be concerned with the destruction of the trees and area north east of horsebarn hill – but to say that the project was on horsebarn was misleading.

Maybe that is what you are recalling.

Even now I’d argue that the project had its good side and bad sides – but the reason to reject it was not that it was on horsebarn hill but rather based on other issues..

By: Platon

Platon — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:21:00 +0000

It was my recollection that you were briefly running a private consultancy a couple of years into the Austin presidency which was hired by UConn at one point to poll Mansfield residents on how they felt about how UConn was handling community relations. I received one of the phone calls. The comment about “tempest in a teapot” was made by you to a reporter for the Willimantic Chronicle, which was published. I feel pretty certain these facts are correct, and of course I apologize if they turn out not to be, but my comment about Austin’s work ethic stands…

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By: ctguy

ctguy — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:51:00 +0000

I would say when it does not exceed the cost of living or inflation but unfortunately this does not appear to be the case here. In an environment of all too scarce resources dedicating this amount to bureaucrats is revolting.

By: Magister

Magister — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:22:00 +0000

That article is terrifying and sad to read. I was one of those academic migrant workers for awhile before becoming a high school teacher. And now the same phenomenon is coming for us…

By: Magister

Magister — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:44:00 +0000

That “stipend” would have just about paid for a full time faculty member. I wonder how many full time instructors Eastern employs compared to adjuncts?

By: Linda174

Linda174 — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:05:00 +0000

To answer your headline…when it is for a Malloy sycophant. Once you agree with him and support him publicly, the benefits are all yours.

By: Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:02:00 +0000

And the shells keep on shuffling . . . ad infinitum

By: guest

guest — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Interesting information on the ride in this morning. WSHU had a brief piece about the republican minority leader demanding an investigation into Malloy’s knowledge of the BOR pay raises. I can’t find the link on WSHU’s site. About time someone from the legislature started investigating this nonsense.

By: jonpelto

jonpelto — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:53:00 +0000

I think you have me mixed up with someone else. No one was more critical of austin then I was. I left the legislature in 1993 years before austin arrived. There have been two other state representatives in the last 19 years.
I never did any polling about austin. I did publicly call for his resignation and called for investigations including criminal investigations,
Can you recheck you information because it definitely wasn’t me you are talking about,
Sent from my BlackBerry please excuss typos