I mean, a sharply targeted reminder by more than 325 concerned campus and around-town UA supporters sent a graphically clear message: lot of folks are quite fearful that the school is going to hell under Scarborough's teflon management. It wasn't the first time that the anger and frustration have erupted on the campus.
The best that the front office could offer in its official porous defense was forwarded to the ABJ readers by UA spokesman Wayne Hill, who responded with an authorized version from on high:
"We believe that what is best for the University of Akron and the greater Akron community is for those who care about both to work together to ensure the university's long-term success and continued positive impact on the community."
Nice try.
It should be obvious by now that from the time Scarborough settled into the job some 18 months ago, he was driven by his own ideas on how to attack the school's $40 million shortfall - ideas that were rejected by the faculty at the University of Toledo where he once worked - and God help those who declared, "Whoa there, pony." He arrived with a sense of entitlement that shaped the tone and execution of his mission.
Work together with his critics? As he once put it, his critics simply didn't understand what he was trying to accomplish .By his narrow standard, it takes only one to tango.
And the trustees who sat quietly in the wings as the school's debt grew under Scarborough's predecessor Luis Proenza? There appears to be a sacred board rule that only chairman Jonathan Pavloff can speak for the other political appointees. It's fair to ask what do the trustees really do beyond showing up for meetings for a public university. You tell me.
So the bow is bent. More arrows will fly in the paper on Saturday and Sunday with ads 2 and 3.
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