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Did you catch the other figure of $473 million dollars - the amount raised by the fundraising campaign that the university was in the middle of then? Given that it's an established university, even if he was only directly responsible for bringing in 10 percent of that, that's still an enormous amount of money.

Considering the millions thata good president is responsible for raising, not to mention many benefits that can't be measured in cold hard cash, I don't begrudge expenditures on behalf of a school executive.

The airfare in question was for the president's wife to accompany him on a trip. She flew the same class he did. He was the president at the time.

It may look like big guns to most people, but it's just the cost of executive class airfare, the same as any other executive gets, and a few expenses at a conference.

And that's coming from a debt-riddled student who's still paying her way through many years of post-secondary. If we want good people at the helm of postsecondary institutions and don't want to lose their skill to the much higher-paying private sector, nickel-and-diming this stuff is just stupid. And $13,000 is chump change in the big picture.