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Date: January 27, 2015 08:40PM
Strange day today. We have the morning announcement about gays at a news conference and the release of of Kim Clark as president of BYUI in the afternoon.
His replacement, Clark Gilbert, is currently the President and CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media. Did the church want to get this guy out of town to avoid the thrashing in the media about the "gays" press conference? The timing just seems odd.
A little information on Gilbert. He comes from a wealthy TBM family, was a student at Harvard Business School when Kim Clark was the Dean and Clark was reportly was a mentor to Gilbert. Gilbert was hired at the Harvard Business School under Clark's tenure.
Shortly after Clark came to BYUI, Gilbert had applied for the Athletic Director position at BYU--he didn't get it but Clark made a place for him at BYUI as the associate academic vice president of Academic Development. A position that was created for Gilbert.
Gilbert is a clone of Clark and BYUI is going to have more of the same dismissive, arrogant, GA seeking, bilge. The employees and the students will continue having to cope with a repressive, fundamentalist, administration that has something to say about everything--like wanting older women to dye their gray hair--I kid you not.
Clark Gilbert was in the midst of building a home within a stone throw from the BYUI president's home, and another VP that Clark brought in, Henry Eyring II. (We have our own little Heber,UT subdivision). Gilbert let people know that he was "building the biggest house in Rexburg." It wasn't the biggest house in Rexburg but it said a lot about what kind of guy he was.
Funny thing, though, they had just about finished the house when it caught on fire and burned completely to the ground. It burned to the ground because the subdivision was new but there was no water in the fire hydrants to put it out.
They re-built the house but Gilbert was appointed the CEO of the Deseret News and Deseret Digital Media. I don't know if he ever lived in the house. It sat empty until about two years ago when it was finally sold.
It's my opinion that Q15 is grooming Gilbert for a GA position and he's getting a lot of "church experience" so he can go higher.
Now Kim Clark can now go and live in his custom built house in that Heber City, UT area that the GA's are living in. Clark built the house in 2009, now he can live in it.
In summary, it's going to be bohica "bend over here it comes again."