The article below is just another sad example of the almost nonexistent moral base evident within the privileged elite of America today. While one graduating class after another is churned endlessly through the debt serfdom assembly line we call “higher education,” their “star professors” and university leaders are purchasing vacations homes in luxurious locations such as East Hampton. Of course, it’s merely a symptom of the rot and corruption institutionalized at the top of the military-indsutrial-Wall Street complex flowing downward and infecting the entire culture, but it is an untenable social dynamic that will snap back with a vengeance upon all of us sooner rather than later. From the New York Times:
Follow one of Fire Island’s quaint footpaths away from the ferry dock, past modest cottages and better-appointed vacation homes, to an elegant modern beach house that extends across three lots. A composition in bold, unadorned planes, it has a perimeter of green and two separate entrances, each outfitted with the long ramps that are the local custom.
The house, which is owned by John Sexton, the president of New York University, was bought with a $600,000 loan from an N.Y.U. foundation that eventually grew to be $1 million, according to Suffolk County land records. It is one of a number of loans that N.Y.U. has made to executives and star professors for expensive vacation homes in areas like East Hampton, Fire Island and Litchfield County, Conn., in what educational experts call a bold new frontier for lavish university compensation.
Richard Revesz, who recently ended a decade as the dean of New York University Law School, lives with his wife, an N.Y.U. law professor, in a handsome West Village town house that was financed by N.Y.U. They also have a home on more than 65 acres near the Housatonic River in Litchfield County, also helped by an N.Y.U. loan, according to land records in both locales. According to the university’s most recently available tax return, they owe the university $5.7 million altogether.
He declined to comment on the terms of most of those loans, like interest rates and any provisions for forgiveness, citing the privacy of the parties.
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