{"id":10338,"date":"2015-09-11T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10338"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:37:22","slug":"what-role-did-marthapiper-and-bmo-play-in-ubc-gupta-resignation-bced-ubcnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/09\/what-role-did-marthapiper-and-bmo-play-in-ubc-gupta-resignation-bced-ubcnews\/","title":{"rendered":"At #UBC, #RBC counterbalances #BMO, no worries #bced #ubcnews #highered #ubyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Was<\/a>

Were Martha Piper and BMO waiting in the wings?<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the known unknowns, as E. Wayne Ross explained<\/a>, is that\u00a0Martha Piper and BMO must’ve played a role in the “transition” or removal of Arvind Gupta from the President’s Office at the University of British Columbia. Now is the time to speculate<\/a>. What was that role?<\/p>\n

We\u00a0may have missed it, but no one has explained\u00a0how and why Martha\u00a0was so readily available, at the drop of a dime, on resignation day<\/a>, to race back\u00a0into UBC’s\u00a0President’s Office and begin sweeping things under the rug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The known knowns of admin include\u00a0the devices and mechanisms that churn and turn in the background as these types of what UBC still calls “leadership transitions”<\/a> play out.<\/p>\n

Another known known is that bank Corporate Directors do very little and so theoretically Martha could have been just hanging around with nothing better to do on that August day when John Montalbano gave her the call. And then John begins to call around to faculty members<\/a> and admin, of course with different messages for the two groups. But that’s way too recent of a history to this thickening plot.<\/p>\n

So is it way too fantastic that Martha just cares for\u00a0the “magnificent University”<\/a> that UBC is and jumped at the chance to save its languishing admin\u00a0from certain failure. This is the righting of the ship\u00a0theory that Wayne mentioned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So yes, we need to know. Has the Bank of Montreal<\/a>\u00a0bought its way into UBC’s\u00a0President’s Office? Over\u00a0$2.2 million in recent “financial support” to UBC<\/a> (chump change for BMO) can buy a bank a lot. $500k to the Sauder School of Business can buy a bank a lot. A BMO Corporate Director in UBC’s President’s Office can seemingly buy the bank something. Can it not?<\/p>\n

The questions are\u00a0exaggerated, for sure, and let’s have faith in the UBC Board of Governors<\/a>. The Acting Chair of BoG is a Corporate Director of RBC<\/a>, so what’s the concern?\u00a0All the Canadian universities do this, so what’s the big deal?<\/p>\n

At UBC, RBC counterbalances BMO. Trust the BoG and the administrators, Trust the chartered banks. Cut interest rates.\u00a0End of\u00a0question period. So, it is time\u00a0to look forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Piper now needs to please\u00a0come clean on\u00a0the August\u00a0“leadership transition”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*Yes, this is satire. Yes, this is parody. UBC says now is the time to speculate<\/a>. Yes, this is gentle mocking. And the BMO connection is a conflict, is it not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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