Youfit is on Richmond right on my path to and from work. I just really want to know if they have showers. Probably just run by there Thursday and check it out. Not looking for anything extravagant as most of my workouts are on the bike/running. I just need to mix in some damn weights.
[jumpingsmile] @ UL. I mean... [roll]
U of L has been rocked by theft, embezzlement and other scandals in recent years, as well as recent allegations that a university employee supplied escorts to basketball players and recruits. Another scandal was triggered when President James Ramsey and his staff dressed in stereotypical Mexican costumes at a party at the president’s mansion.
In the series of embezzlement, from 2008 through 2014, authorities alleged that U of L employees stole, misspent or mishandled at least $7.6 million at the College of Education, the health science campus, the law school, the business school and the athletic department's ticket office.
The string of offenses began when Education Dean Robert Felner was accused of defrauding U of L and another university of $2.3 million. He pleaded guilty to nine federal charges, including income tax evasion, and served 63 months in prison. U of L last year announced it was adopting accounting and other reforms recommended in an audit to tighten financial controls.
Ramsey also has been criticized for his lucrative compensation after The Courier-Journal reported this year that he and his two top aides were paid millions of dollars in deferred compensation and that he was paid 2 ½ times more than the average of the Atlantic Coast Conference's other 14 presidents and chancellors — all of whose universities are ranked far higher academically than U of L.
Some faculty also complained after disclosures that the university foundation had paid a full year's salary to outgoing vice presidents Michael Curtin ($252,350) and Larry Owsley ($248,255) and to the assistant to the president, Vivian Hibbs ($66,391), in part to induce them not to "disparage, demean or impugn the university or its senior leadership," and paid another $346,844 to its top lawyer, Angela Koshewa, to induce her to resign without suing the university.