2008 Woodie Awards
Video related to this article is available below.Issue date: 7/17/08 Section: Opinion
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Letters to the Editor
Boycotting the U. of Perelman
To the Editor:
The renaming of Logan Hall to Claudia Cohen Hall is really an outrage because it was done without forethought. Perelman donates his money and expects something named after him or a member of his family.
Why not rename the school as University of Perelman instead? Because that is where it's headed with Perelman's money.
I'm sure Benjamin Franklinis spinning over in his grave over this.
But I'm also sure that my sister and other alumni will fondly refer to it as Logan Hall r gardless of the name change. It doesn't make sense.
Sylvia Marciniak
Passing down the President's raise
To the Editor:
I am very optimistic that with the 41% raise Penn President received, she will realize that even one million does not buy what it used to anymore.
Hopefully, she will also find the shame and decency to extend the courtesy to all lecturers from Penn by giving them a similar raise - especially those making less than 50K. And that's per year - not 100K a month like Gutmann is making.
Just think of that, Amy dear - could you make a living during an entire year with about half of what you earn each month? I just don't think so.
I know some Penn lecturers living by the ghettos of Philadelphia who are thinking of moving away because their neighbors just cannot stand these new Ivy League poor. After all, if you are poor, you're poor. Don't try to misrepresent your poverty by hanging your Ivy League diplomas on the wall.
As Mark Twain once wrote, "honest poverty is a gem that even a King might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out. I have sported that kind of jewelry long enough."
So I leave with a challenge to Mrs. President. Try to live with my salary for just one month and you will understand that it's no use to push the West Philly poor too far away from campus.
That is only going to make us late for work.
Glauco Ortolano
Lecturer of Portuguese
Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies
To the Editor:
The renaming of Logan Hall to Claudia Cohen Hall is really an outrage because it was done without forethought. Perelman donates his money and expects something named after him or a member of his family.
Why not rename the school as University of Perelman instead? Because that is where it's headed with Perelman's money.
I'm sure Benjamin Franklinis spinning over in his grave over this.
But I'm also sure that my sister and other alumni will fondly refer to it as Logan Hall r gardless of the name change. It doesn't make sense.
Sylvia Marciniak
Passing down the President's raise
To the Editor:
I am very optimistic that with the 41% raise Penn President received, she will realize that even one million does not buy what it used to anymore.
Hopefully, she will also find the shame and decency to extend the courtesy to all lecturers from Penn by giving them a similar raise - especially those making less than 50K. And that's per year - not 100K a month like Gutmann is making.
Just think of that, Amy dear - could you make a living during an entire year with about half of what you earn each month? I just don't think so.
I know some Penn lecturers living by the ghettos of Philadelphia who are thinking of moving away because their neighbors just cannot stand these new Ivy League poor. After all, if you are poor, you're poor. Don't try to misrepresent your poverty by hanging your Ivy League diplomas on the wall.
As Mark Twain once wrote, "honest poverty is a gem that even a King might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell out. I have sported that kind of jewelry long enough."
So I leave with a challenge to Mrs. President. Try to live with my salary for just one month and you will understand that it's no use to push the West Philly poor too far away from campus.
That is only going to make us late for work.
Glauco Ortolano
Lecturer of Portuguese
Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies
Viewing Comments 1 - 10 of 26
Alum '08
posted 7/17/08 @ 9:19 AM EST
The second letter is so poorly written that it justifies whatever low salary the writer receives. I don't know what's more embarrassing: the fact that the second letter in broken English was published by the DP, or the fact that it's written by an Ivy League "lecturer. (Continued…)
Alum 07
posted 7/17/08 @ 10:16 AM EST
Agree with '08 completely. If you want more than 50k a year, stop lecturing Portuguese.
G. Baez
posted 7/17/08 @ 3:08 PM EST
Glauco is absolutely right. If Amy Gutmann deserves a 40% raise, then all faculty members deserve the same. Glauco is talking about percentage increases, not whole figures. (Continued…)
NIDETZ
posted 7/17/08 @ 4:21 PM EST
Equal raise for all!!
The Daily Pennsylvanian should do a follow up story at the beggining of the next academic year and compare the salary raise Penn will give to lecturers to the one given to Gutmann. (Continued…)
Hoffmann
posted 7/17/08 @ 7:10 PM EST
Glauco Ortolano's letter was not "poorly written in broken English" as Alumnus 08 has stated in his/her letter. Ortolano writes very well in English as an International Language (EIL) which can be quite different from standard American English. (Continued…)
Alum
posted 7/18/08 @ 10:58 AM EST
Stop lambasting Penn for honoring its word to Ronald Perelman. The deal was he would get to name a building if he dontaed the money for the restoration of core buildings surrounding Houston Hall. (Continued…)
'86
posted 7/18/08 @ 12:27 PM EST
The word "wig" in this context is spelled without the h.
"Perfectionist" is not an adverb.
"Losing" is spelled with only one o.
"Poorly written in broken English" implies that the passage is well written, unless a comma is inserted after the word "written. (Continued…)
Alum
posted 7/18/08 @ 4:44 PM EST
Clearly, the Penn "lecturers" are just as uninformed as some of the liberal students they teach. Individuals' wages, by economic necessity, reflect their contribution to the economy. (Continued…)
Student
posted 7/18/08 @ 4:48 PM EST
When Glauco leads the largest capital campaign in Penn's history, serves as the chief executive for the largest private employer in Philadelphia, and oversees an Ivy League school with multiple hospitals, a full police force, and massive real estate holdings, then he can argue for a raise on par with that of Amy G. (Continued…)
Dr. Truth
posted 7/19/08 @ 8:01 AM EST
Glauco Ortolano wrote an excellent letter. Maybe he doesn't write as a native speaker of English but his arguments were so strong they have prompted people to react. (Continued…)
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