Robert Paxton, until recently an Iowa community college president, resigned over controversy involving a photo of him holding a keg and apparently pouring beer into a young woman's mouth.
So he resigns over the controversy and gets a severance package that officials said was valued at about $400,000. This includes 2 years salary and health care for a while. How many people would resign right now, after having done nothing wrong, if they could get paid for doing nothing the next 2 years?
Intersting article on how US schools are having trouble getting kids to school on the bus because of gas prices. Some are moving to 4 day weeks...