Mar 28 2008
Gabel’s Grand Illusion
Evidently, ex-trustee Peter Gabel’s grand illusion to rise from the ashes of the havoc he personally wreaked is just more of the little rich boy’s endless supply of hubris. I’ve lost count now of how many preposterous five-point, ten-point, and now thirteen-point plans he’s proposed since the New College financial scandal hit the front page last July, but I expect that despite his enormous inherited wealth, his latest scheme is also doomed to failure. Indeed, psychologists might have a hay day making sense of his recent comments on KPFA about inhabiting a parallel universe. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this is where he has resided for some time.
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When I was an NCOC student in the mid-90s, the financial aid office didn’t even know that federal Pell grants had been raised. They were so out of touch. I had a friend who worked at another school fax them the new Pell grant chart. Offices would be open when the workers (many of whom were Gabel’s chums and lived in Santa Rosa with him) felt like opening them; the arrogance and paternalism in all aspects of administration were really out of hand. Back then, WASC issued an accreditation report in which NCOC admins called students “highly intelligent misfits” and other nice things. NCOC has a long history of screwing its teachers and students. I’m glad Martin Hamilton is getting well deserved bad press finally. But it’s too bad that Gabel and his cult didn’t do right by students and get accreditation in hand last summer. Cripes! I earned my degree in 1998. I’m sorry for you folks who were midway through your careers there. A lawsuit really should be considered. Alumns might want to pay attention to this–who has our data and will issue our transcripts? I’m sorry as well to see what was actually a really neat program and a SF institution finally crumble.