If Rome burns, no Nero here… Parsky succeeds as UC Regents’ Chairman

Americans applaud Roman virtues including gravity, resolution, temperance, self-control, authority, honesty, and justice when we find them. The Roman model of self-governance including reliance upon the rule of law, recognition of human dignity and freedom of choice form the basis for our own democracy. Don’t blink now… but the UC Board of Regents is showing signs of ‘going Roman’.

Initiatives to expand educational opportunities to minorities; to professionalize the business of academia and to continue the management of our national nuclear laboratories all bring exceptional economic benefits to the state. Accomplishing all three initiatives within a year or two’s timeframe is nothing short of extraordinary. Kudos to the UC Board of Regents. More kudos to the Chairman of the UC Board of Regents, Gerry Parsky, and from the Los Angeles Times, no less.

About Parsky, the LA Times states he is “Taking an unusually activist approach to the volunteer job, he has testified before — and helped calm — lawmakers angered by the compensation scandal. He arranged an outside audit of UC managers' pay and perks and proposed administrative and structural reforms to help the university's embattled president, Robert C. Dynes. He played a key part last year in UC's ultimately successful effort to hang on to a share of its historic contract to run the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico.”

With the Los Angeles Times singing hosannas to Gerry Parsky, where is the next ParskyWatch when the news is good?