Government Pay
“It Doesn’t Always Pay to Be the Best” (April 9) described the plight of university professors who are forced to take big cuts in pay and perks to take lower-paying government jobs. In the article, Prof. William Happer (formerly of the Princeton Physics Department) was described as giving up a $200,000 income and subsidized college educations for his kids to take a $112,000 government position as director of energy research in the Energy Department.
What are we coming to when the “academic” pork barrel has more pork and better pork than the government’s pork barrel?
No wonder average Americans, who make a fraction of either income, can’t send their kids to Princeton.
RONALD V. HARPER
Encinitas
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