{"id":621504,"date":"2010-01-05T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010707906_provostwisesconflictofinterest.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-05T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:32:18","slug":"provost-wises-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/621504","title":{"rendered":"Provost Wise&#8217;s conflict of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She needs to enroll in Ethics 101<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your excellent article on the financial abuse of power by our leading educators [\u201cProvost\u2019s Nike ties draw fire at UW,\u201d NWTuesday, Jan. 5]. You are right on target.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as a University of Washington alumna, I am discouraged by educators who constantly shout loudly for more state public education funding while, at the same time, are receiving outrageous state salaries and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Also, UW Provost Phyllis Wise should take a refresher course in Ethics 101 if she cannot see that a conflict of interest exists when she receives a huge salary from a company that has a $35 million contract with the UW.<\/p>\n<p>Irresponsible acts such as these undermine community support for the UW. We have the right to expect better, less expensive leadership at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Merle Hanley, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She needs to enroll in Ethics 101 Thank you for your excellent article on the financial abuse of power by our leading educators [\u201cProvost\u2019s Nike ties draw fire at UW,\u201d NWTuesday, Jan. 5]. You are right on target. Speaking as a University of Washington alumna, I am discouraged by educators who constantly shout loudly for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BGg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}