“The Bears Roar” – Outrage against President Simmons’s relationship with Goldman Sachs hits The New York Times! « Brown University Open the Books Coalition!

“The Bears Roar” – Outrage against President Simmons’s relationship with Goldman Sachs hits The New York Times!

02Mar10

Brown President Ruth Simmons served on the board of Goldman Sachs for ten years until just recently, a position that earned her over $300,000 a year and illustrated the increasing corporatization of the University. Simon Liebling B2012, who is a member of the Open the Books Coalition spotlighted this conflict of interest in December in a column for the Brown Daily Herald, demanding that Simmons no longer associate Brown with the “single starkest symbol of corporate greed to emerge from the recession.”

Simmons resigned from the board a mere two months after Liebling’s column, and today is subject of a New York Times article, Goldman Sachs is described as a lurking bogeyman on Brown’s campus.