Opening Remarks Part 1

yeah. seriously.

the man is lying through his teeth... but don't take my word for it check out the facts at universityprobe (dot) org -- that's the blog of a Berkeley physics professor who retired to study the UC budget for the last ~15 years.

yeah the UNIVERSITY may get through it ......but the students WILL NOT .....uh will someone shut him up

It's very simple. Mark Yudoff should step down. He has proven that they cannot tackle these budgetary matters with any sense of imagination or innovation. Yudoff arrived since the UC caved to Schwarzenegger on funding, but he since he's arrived he's hired administrators at higher salaries than their predecessors. He has signaled that he is out of touch with even basic notions of fairness. It's time for Yudoff to be dismissed and a more innovative governing body brought in.

The UC President and Regents, who have otherwise been conducting themselves in a way that indicates a clear alienation from the daily realities of the university. The video is a positive step in the right direction, but it does not point to any newly opened channels for communication of ideas, suggestions, or questions. It was rather poor form of the UC President to criticize "misinformation" without taking a proactive step to remedy the lack of information that is coming from his office.

Yudof challenged "anyone" to come up with a better budget plan than his. If he is serious about this, he should consider putting together a task force that broadly represents the student and employee population of the university with the sole mandate of reviewing the proposed budget, the current state of financial affairs, and "coming up with a better budget plan." This would harness the peerless talent and energy among the students, faculty, administrators, unions, and service workers.

It seems to me that, despite his position, the situation is still out of his hands. The state only allots a certain amount of money and he didn't really have a say in the state legislature's determinations.  I think we have a tendency to focus blame on one figurehead while the problem arised from the combined failures of hundreds of people. Anyone?

Let's cut funding from everything that doesn't come up on the High School Exit Exam... If it's not on the exam, students won't need to know about it...

*sigh* The system as a whole needs some re-working...

Bah we've always had this problem. Just last year the English department lost it's number 1 slot to Havard.

It is really hard trying to refrain my dislike for Mark Yudof. He talks about dealing with a broken system, (which it is), but with no plan to attempt to reform the broken system. He complains about a 10% pay cut from his 828,00 salary, and how it is comparable to a 4% pay cut for others that make a thirtieth of what you make. You're kidding me, right?
Talk about a fat cat...I don't think Mark Yudof will ever go hungry.