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(January 21, 2005 ) Listen to this. Isn’t there a disconnect somewhere? UCSC’s new chancellor, Denise Dee Denton, will receive a salary of $275,000 per year plus moving expenses of $68,750. She also managed to have her longtime partner, Professor Gretchen Kalonji, hired at UCSC also for $192,000 per year. This while UC student fees have just been raised by about 29%, and that is a real hardship for many. This also while lower-bracket UC employees receive minimal wages and are having difficulty getting even small raises. UCSC this past year received gifts of around $35 million, probably from alumni, from whom they solicit all the time.

Likewise, one of our own county administrative officers, Susan Mauriello, when I looked several years ago, gave herself $192,000 per year, same as the vice president of the United States, plus a hefty pension for herself and the Board of Supervisors, who at that time were giving themselves close to $100,000 per year for two or three meetings per month. No doubt they give themselves yearly cost of living raises in addition. All this while many of our county needy like stroke victims are told that there are no longer funds in the county coffers to continue to give them free bus or cab transportation for shopping or doctor visits. This pattern of heartless, shameful greed by those on top of the public sector from the federal, state, county and local levels is occurring all over our country. Those on top take the cream for themselves first in the form of high salaries, high pensions, high health insurance premiums which We the People pay for, and at the same time, they all cry poverty and ask for more and more funds to get the job done. It is all so immoral. What is happening to fairmindedness and sensitivity in our society?