I took the above photograph of the University of Denver's Ritchie Center the other evening, around sunset, from the living room of my condo. It is the university's sports center and was paid for entirely by then chancellor Dan Ritchie. Ritchie took over as chancellor when DU was struggling, and donated his own money and put the arm on his wealthy friends to build the University of Denver into a major institution. He was (and still is) a man of principle, and truly cared about the faculty, staff, and students. He resigned to become head of the Denver Center of the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, his replacement turned out to be a tool of the business-oriented Board of Trustees. I truly believe the DU Bookstore, where I worked for almost 30 years, would have not been outsourced to Follett Higher Education Group, throwing the staff's lives into turbulence, if he remained chancellor. But I am still not bitter. Very much.
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