They say you should never make enemies with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
We're not sure if that holds up anymore but clearly, making enemies with an art professor with access to acrylic polymer has its drawbacks too.
With the latest chapter in the ongoing saga at Capilano University being a dispute over a quintuple-chinned effigy of president Kris Bulcroft, we worry the discussion is getting off track.
The nastiness stems from the poor handling of consultation with faculty during the 2013 budget season that saw courses cut, including studio arts. Then there's the fallout from a court ruling that affirmed the administration was running afoul of the University Act when it passed the budget.
Faculty have a right to be angry and the administration has an obligation to operate in the confines of the legislation. But meanwhile, there's a new budget challenge to face and consultations to be had, and this fiasco isn't helping.
Perhaps not wanting to bite the hand that feeds them, both the administration and the faculty have remained conspicuously silent when it comes to a lack of funding from the province. Out of 24 colleges and universities in B.C., Capilano's funding places it 23rd thanks to the Liberals reneging on promised funding that would come with the college transitioning to a university.
There are so many fingers pointing at Bulcroft these days, you could lose an eye just walking across campus. There may be others worthy of George Rammell's sculpture and wrath, but we humbly submit they don't work at the university. They work in Victoria.
