Dishonesty about the living wage
By Ben Van Dyne | July 6, 2006UNIVERSITY President John T. Casteen, III is upset about the Living Wage Campaign, and thinks he can lie his way out of the issue. That conduct isn't relevant to the Campaign except inasmuch as it has to do with securing the future of the University and its most neglected members, as numerous economic studies have shown a "living wage" would (theoretical economic objections notwithstanding). But a university president undermines his own position as an educator when his example teaches that deception and slander are okay as long as they serve your self-interest. That is the lesson of his recent open letter in the Alumni Association's University of Virginia Magazine, where he makes so many untrue claims that there's simply not space to fully go into them here.
