Professor's attitude on pay needs adjustment

Suspended University of Iowa professor Malik Juweid feels that his getting $300 less than last year's salary of $241,026 is unfair, and “the injustice with my salary must be corrected immediately.”

Are you kidding? Three hundred dollars is about one-eighth of 1 percent of his salary. I do not begrudge him making that much money. But while so many are doing without complete salaries, he decries a paltry $300. It is this kind of privileged mentality that is preventing the common people from reclaiming our local educational institutions, and especially our government, so that they will once again actually work like they are supposed to, rather than to the whim of those expecting us to bow to their power base, especially as they yell and scream about what they deserve.

Such an attitude holds us back from true reform that will actually benefit the people, not a select entrenched few.

Terry Wilkinson

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