Vanderbilt chancellor responds to WSJ report

He won't divorce his wife, who allegedly smokes pot, and his high salary is nothing to be ashamed of, Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee told the Hustler, the school's newspaper. The interview follows a front-page report in the Wall Street Journal detailing the chancellor's apparent profligacy (not only did his wife allegedly use pot for medicinal purposes but they also have a personal chef) and the negligent-to-no oversight of his board. "Yes, I am the highest-paid university president in the country . . . yes, we live in a very big home, and we do a lot of entertaining," Gee said in the interview. He also pleaded guilty to something else: "the fact that we have raised lots of money and the university is doing incredibly well."

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