The Next 171,250 Rounds Are On President Simmons
Day-umm! Brown President Ruth Simmons is richer than Scrooge McDuck. The Herald reports today that Brown paid Simmons $685,000 in 2005 — up almost 20 percent from the year before. Setting aside our temporary confusion over why the school’s vice president would earn more ($709,000 — down, actually, from $781,000 in 2004), we’ve done some quick math to see what that kind of scratch buys in Providence …
171,177 hacky sacks
978 lbs. of marijuana you buy from friends
16,692 lbs. of pencil shavings you sell to friends
13,170 copies of The O.C. Season 2 on DVD
34,235 “You’re With Me, Leather” Deadspin t-shirts, inspired by Chris Berman ‘77
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September 6th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
They’re footbags, dammit, not hackysacks.