Following a nine-month hiatus, UNLV’s Barrick Lecture Series is back. The first address under UNLV President Len Jessup’s watch was delivered Tuesday by writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria.
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Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.
People ask what makes a worthy column for me. Often, it’s when I mutter, “Huh? I didn’t know that.”
How does $27 million become $8.3 million and then revert to $27 million? Penn & Teller?
Always thought Chancellor Dan Klaich was a straight shooter, but after a series of questionable actions on his part, I’m starting to have doubts.
Call it a tale of two cases of plagiarism within Nevada’s higher education system. And two is too many.
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