Jim Buck, seen here as portrayed by Ken Lay during the wildly successful, Tony-winning play "How I Got Poop to Roll Uphill", was called a "good sport" by Belck for apparently putting up with the media asking him to be accountable for the state of the UNO athletic department. Although I personally feel this is a team-flub on part of the short-sided, UNL appeasing administration, why exactly was Buck so resistant to question his accountability?Long story short, Supreme Chancellor Belck let everyone know that Buck's perks are very common in the administration biz. His perks included, but sadly aren't limited to:
* Country Club dues
* 2005 Cadillac lease payments
* OTHER Country Club charges "beyond dues"
* Omaha Press Club dues
* Insurance on said Caddy
* Maintenance on said Caddy
* Satellite radio subscription
* Travel not directly related to athletics (OWH, 8/15/06)
Oh ok, well if Chancellor Belck says that all of this is common for vice-chancellors, then it must be hunky-dorey. Well lets take the current "word-of-the-day" of Super Regent Randy Ferlic when he calls the previously mentioned perks, "EXCEPTIONAL". Judging by the general disposition of Regents when they address UNO, I would assume that this word definitely had a negative connotation to it.
The most gross example of incompetence on the part of EX-CHANCELLOR Buck would be his actions at a charity golf fundraiser for UNO athletics. Paying the $500 entry fee for his daughter and her husband, Buck later used his authority to recoup the money he had paid to participate. Mind you, Buck's official duties related to general oversight of university non-academic affairs. If you are filling out the scorecard at home, this means that Buck very well participated in event at which he managed, meaning to attribute to the betterment of our athletic program. So, not only did he take all of the aforementioned things listed above, he also took home a $197,500 salary. OH, and he took home the $500 he originally paid for a round of golf with his daughter and son-in-law. Sources say he was later reimbursed for his loss...
What is absolutely unreal is that Supreme Chancellor Belck is supporting Buck, even after all of this negligent use of athletic funds has come to light. She almost takes the tone of one half of a failed celebrity couple, blaming the media attention for all of their problems. She went so far as to deny the OWH access to Buck's full financial records from his administration. After the World-Herald threatened legal action to explore other potential improprieties, we see that Jeffrey Skilling, er, Jim Buck resigned.
What he have here is the beginning of the end for certain persons in our university, especially within the administration. Oddly enough, a physics oddity foreshadowed in this article perfectly describes situations just like these in real life! When he see the heads of corporations, presidencies, etc., on their way to falling, we first see their cronies initially take the heat for them. Then, with no one to deflect overwhelming attention from personal actions, we see them go down as well. As for the physics oddity we call the experiment, "Shit Rolling Uphill".