Chaw

Hard to swallow

I nearly swallowed my chewing tobacco when I saw on a Charity Navigator web page that Andrew Golden, the President of Princeton University Investment Company, a department of the university, not an independent entity, was paid $1,444,892 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006. That was more than double the amount paid to the president of the university. It also appears that two other employees of the Princeton University Investment Company, one by the name of Jonathan Erickson (who appears to have been 39 or 40 at the time, and a graduate of Penn, which of course is not indicative of anything) and the other Daniel Feder (age unknown, but he appears to have received a masters in economics in 1996 from Trinity, a school of which I am fond, although I didn’t know they had an economics department), each were paid more than President Tilghman, and that the combined pay of messrs Golden, Erickson, and Feder exceeded $3,000,000. I don’t know if it’s the tobacco juice or those numbers that's making me nauseous.