Many on the Clemson faculty object to the administrative pay increases that have gotten attention in FITSnews, as well as the decision, back in 2006, to pull the plug on what had been a rather feeble merit increase program for professors.

There are also serious problems in some of the Colleges, for which the upper administration is at least indirectly responsible. For instance, the Dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science is grossly overpaid. He was expected to raise 10s of millions of dollars for the College; he hasn’t come anywhere near meeting that expectation. Instead, he has put his efforts into punishing virtually everyone who works in the College, driving morale into the basement.

The reason Mr. Bednar’s meeting drew so few supporters is that Clemson faculty members do not trust Mr. Bednar, and do not consider him to be an honest or capable advocate. If FITSnews is truly concerned about happenings at Clemson, it should inquire into Mr. Bednar’s stormy career at the university, and his early retirement.

It is time that the Board of Trustees demonstrate integrity and fire the top administrators.

A(nother) Citizen, you are exactly, not a nanocentimeter off – We know witnesses are pre-programmed but, what’s even worse is the very, hidden, humiliating strong arm tactics that are used to intimidate the victims. In one case, a young Clemson employee, who after running from and begging a Senior Clemson to stop, was sexually groped and had to fight off further attempts to perform unwanted “amarous” acts. The victim reported the incident to the Asst Dept Head (the individual’s supervisor), who in turn relayed it to a Department Head – That Department Head told the Supervisor to just “make it go away” – the victim was then taken into a room, door closed (being refused the privilege of having any chosen witness present), positioned across a table facing 5 Clemson male employees, Departmental Supervisory level (all of whom worked directly or indirectly for the Department Head). The Asst Dept Head then proceeded through a long demeaning tirade, cursing the victim, calling the victim vile names, belittling and threatening the victim with various types of retalliation to the point of bringing the person to tears, physically shaking and emotionally distraught – then, the victim was virtually thrown out with final threats on job, reputation and opportunity for any future. This again was bravely and properly reported. then, in meetings with the very people of Barker’s Staff that are hired and chartered to protect victims of this type gross, humiliating and illegal behavior- – the person was told that if she insisted on further investigation into the situation. “powerful” people would get angry” and that they could not do anything about that. So, their advice was “just quit, find another place to work”. This is a sickening situation – and, it is, truly and factually, carried on with the knowledge and condonement by Jim Barker, the Clemson(?) President.

These are travesties being experienced at Clemson that go far and beyond the concern that Prof Bednar is expressing – however, it is east to connect the situations if you only see who are getting the big, fat rewards for covering the dirt, administering the punishment to the victims/complaintants.

When Barker proclaims that the “facts are incomplete and misleading”,he is unintentionally telling a part truth. The facts on favoritism, nepotism and attempting to cover rewards given to those involved are only part of the facts that should be raised and published throughout the State of South Carolina. When you consider only the facts that have been brought out about the questionable antics of Mr. Barker and the salaries and the other facts working their way to the surface through Mr. Troutman’s suit, you must realize that these only reflect the compensation and financial wrongs being done to the students, parents, taxpayers of SC, the midlevel adminstrative employees and faculty. Far more detrimental to the mental state, the ability to perform their work and their pursuit of a career in the State (owned – the State, not Barker) University is the ugly face of sexual harassment, discrimination, retalliation in the workplace, bullying in and out of the office and tortuous emotional stress.

But nobody wants to talk about THAT. N-O!

!Godspeed! to you, Mr. Bednar, Mr. Troutman, ALL THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE at Clemson, and any good lawyers you have found to help.

I just like see if Sic will post some of my tirades. So far, I am batting at least a million.

He is no fan of Mitt Romney, you know…