So after 2 swings and 2 misses (ex-UA Prez Hart & Robbins), the demotion of its Chairman, i.e. the ever-slippery Fred P. DuVal, Esquire, and the recent appointment of a prominent whitecollar crime attorney, Lee Stein, to watch ‘em all…. ABOR* finally decides to do the right thing.
They hire, after virtually no other selections & interviews, a no-nonsense Indian tech-guy, Dr. Suresh Garimella, Phd.
Dr. Garimella, with expertise in things aerospace related from that industry’s #1 university, Purdue, is a degreed mechanical engineer. That background should come in handy if UA can clean up its act, i.e. trying to employ most of Tucson, stop with its failing med-biotech nonsense, and get prepared for a serious American pivot to the Pacific, as well as Tucson’s other natural advantage: the future space-based economy.
For these coming battles I suspect Dr. Garimella is fully accustomed.
For the last 5 years, he’s been fighting the sinecured, Hard-Left bozo-class of atavistic regressives at the University of Vermont. And not without some success, there in Ben & Jerry’s, and Bernie Sanders’ Kingdom of the Pampered Snowflakes; a trustbaby nightmare-landscape of unfulfilled entitlement.
For the preppie socialists in Vermont, our new UA Warrior Garimella was considered Lucifer-Reeking-of-Turmeric, as evidenced by this hysterical 2021 headline, “Thousands Voice No Confidence in Garimella as…..”
Compared to that extended and brutal Vermont baptism of fire, UA should be a cakewalk.
So welcome to the desert Dr. Garimella, contact me anytime.
And just to bring you up to speed, here’s a list of my ADI ‘missives from the wilderness’, the last ~5 yrs on UA:
How Arizona Beats Its Water Curse & Creates a Global Tech Industry
Writ Large: UA Is The Tucson Left’s “Milkcow”
UA: The Tucson Beast Eating Arizona’s Budget
UA’s “Institutional Capture” of Tucson: Vast Bloat Hiding in Plain Sight<
Sonora Awakens; Discovers Pacific Rim
AZ’s Water Crisis: Textbook Doom & Gloom Socialist Powergrab
Note to Legislature: Fixing the University of Arizona, the Short Form
Chomsky, Epstein, Wilbur? What UA Gets Away With Continues to Baffle & Amaze
AZ Legislature: Rein-In Your Feral University and Its AWOL Regents
Tucson-UA Left’s Clever Scheme Scams Taxpayers Out of a $9-Fig. Land Parcel
Tucson & UA: “Change Agents? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Change Agents!”
My Letter to ABOR Regarding Their Selection of a New UA Prez
*ABOR: Arizona Board of Regents
Sellers is a Southpark Republican living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization