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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With regard to the apparent disagreement about
Yudof's "salary," there are some games being played on both sides of that
conversation. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interviewer: "$828,000 in <U>annual
compensation</U>"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yudof: "My <U>salary</U> is $540,000" (after
cutting it $60,000)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yudof is right about his salary, but that's not the
same thing as annual compensation. (As an aside, $540,000 plus $120,000 for
housing is $660,000 -- still not anywhere near $828,000.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the same time, the interviewer and Wikipedia
both falsely suggest his "annual compensation" is $828,000. It isn't. They're
basing that figure on an amount reported in the <EM>Daily Californian</EM>,
which does indeed list his <EM>first year </EM>compensation package at $828,000,
but $228,000 of that total is a first-year contribution to his pension -- it
doesn't repeat. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Yes, I know, Wikipedia is <gasp> wrong.
Maybe I'll go back later and correct it. That gets exhausting after a while,
though.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At any rate, when he says his compensation has been
exaggerated, that's doubtless what he's talking about. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As a rhetoric nut, I have to say I got a kick out
of his ability in one answer to limit discussion of his compensation just to
salary -- but several questions later, when the interviewer tries to do the same
thing with the compensation for the President of the United States (asserting
his pay is only $400,000), he calls her on it, throwing in the President's plane
and housing. That's pretty smooth. Gutsy, too. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Gray</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ctuell@ucr.edu href="mailto:ctuell@ucr.edu">ctuell@ucr.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kent1381@earthlink.net
href="mailto:kent1381@earthlink.net">Kathleen Gurnett</A> ; <A
title=englecturers@lists.ucr.edu
href="mailto:englecturers@lists.ucr.edu">englecturers@lists.ucr.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 26, 2009 7:55
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: UWP Lecturers interview with
Mark Yudof</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Kathleen,<BR>I asked myself the same questions about how this
interview had <BR>been edited. Did the interviewer want Yudof to look like a
<BR>clownish character out of a Beckett play? Did Yudof want to <BR>appear so?
He does say he likes a joke.<BR><BR>By the way, if you add the $10K a month to
what he says his <BR>salary is it comes up to over $800K. I do think housing
<BR>allowances should be officially part of salary.
<BR><BR>Cynthia<BR><BR>Cynthia Tuell<BR>Lecturer, University Writing
Program<BR>UC
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