The VSU Foundation has invited SAVE to dinner Monday. No agenda is known, but the Foundation gets four attendees and SAVE gets two.

Foundation attendees are to be:

• Wayne Edwards, Chairman, who responded to SAVE’s fossil fuel divestment request with “your well-intentioned request is impractical”. According to Georgia Secretary of State, he is also the Foundation’s CFO.
• Carolyn Eager, who is on the Foundation investment committee. She resigned as chair of the Industrial Authority in 2009, and was one of three former VLCIA chairs who in 2011 published a statement backing school system consolidation.
• John Crawford, CEO, who is also Vice President for University Advancement. and was on the inauguration steering committee for
• William J. McKinney, ninth president of VSU, and ex-officio VSU Foundation board member, who at the solar canopy inauguration said “I am committed to developing a culture of sustainability on this campus”.

The two attendees from Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.), each apparently twice as heavyweight as a Foundation Trustee, will be: Continue reading →