I'm not sure if its appropriate to laugh at this since it's a serious and well-grounded point, but I just had this awful Usual Suspects-style lineup in my head with some guy dressed as HomeStar Runner and another as Superman with boxes of Franzia under their arms when I read this.

So namedropping is an adequate substitute for original thought and ideas in your mind, is it?

I didn't say that they shouldn't be concerned about the drinking event or any of the things you're attributing to me, actually. The point of my comment was to flag the fact that this college doesn't take sexual assault seriously, as correctly noted by its students.

Um, the article cited the administration, itself, as quoting a 20% rate of disciplinary action against Tour-de-Franzia participants and the recent lawsuit filed by students and former students related to the "rape factory" was the source for my sexual assault prosecution rate... which I prefaced with the word…

so it's a tad specious to claim (as many students are via Twitter and Facebook) that participating in Tour De Franzia is automatically considered worse than sexual assault from a disciplinary standpoint

Please! Just organize one in your house every Saturday night! I found the kitchen!! White Granache! I found the bedroom! White Zinfandel! Wow! The LIVING ROOM! Cabernet Sauvignon!

The argument you make is not a bad one (I happen to be a lawyer.. but only an associate with no real power, unfortunately.. woe be to me), but again it would be difficult to get people to take on corporate responsibilities in C-level jobs if they have a better chance of having their personal assets captured in the…

So we actually agree on quite a bit. I do know quite a few CEOs personally, but we all know about a bunch of them through hearsay.... the really bad ones that have done really bad things at the direct expense of others. I don't know anyone - for or against high executive salaries - that would agree that it's OK for…

Royal "we"-ing me now, huh?

I was the president of a $1M plus annual budgeted NFP and in charge of executive compensation for years. People do deserve to get paid for their skills and should have adjustments where appropriate. NFPs are competing, but if you choose to work for an NFP, then you choose a lower payscale. However, my problem with…

Seriously? Grow up.

In that case, it sounds like the entity you have a problem with is the board of any particular company or NFP that has a nonperforming CEO....

Power structure being that someone's in charge and makes the most money? That's actually not meant to be snarky, just an honest question.

Not crazy...I just happen to be rank-and-file myself, but am friends with a few CEOs who do try to do the right thing and are lumped in with the people who plunder and pillage. It's really easy to have the opinion you do when you forget that the people who hold those posts also have lives and families and might just…

Red ain't a bad color and I totally know where you're coming from.... but look how well this has worked out wherever it's been attempted. Not great. I also happen to be close to a number of CEOs who are constantly worrying about the welfare of their employees, balancing board/investor demands with making their…

OK, so explain to me how you get someone to agree to run a company without paying them a lot of money. Annnnnnd.... GO!

Yes, but..... CEOs also have about 400 times the responsibilities (or, at least, the blame if things go wrong) that the rank and file do and as hard as it is for us "regular people" to get jobs right now, there's only so many CEO positions out there. If you are a CEO and you get let go, you're probably looking at a…

In terms of the "back-breaky-ness" (to use Buffyspeak) of the work, I totally agree with you. A ditch digger probably even works harder in that regard than a CEO. But someone who is digging ditches also probably works 8 hours a day rather than pretty much around the clock, isn't hounded by email and phone calls 24…

Totally. The board decides. I was the chair of the second-largest rape crisis center in the country for years and we always approved executive compensation. However, this board could have screwed themselves by entering into a trap-door contract that simply expands the CEO's salary no matter what, without any…

I totally get and respect that you love that class. I would never take it for the reasons I stated, but I'm also not a zealot telling other women they shouldn't pole dance (in Chicago there's a lot of "stripper fitness" classes, some with poles, some without). I prefer to run. Some people think I'm nuts for running…