Port Authority Salaries

I usually avoid ribbing civil servants about their salaries, because a) they are usually low, and b) if they're high, many (perhaps most?) of our public servants are talented, unsung heroes who could have made bank with their skills but chose to serve the public instead, so bravo if they can make a decent living.
Today, however, I freely mock the reported salaries of employees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, generally speaking. Here's a public agency that just raised its tolls (so the fat salaries look bad), has failed to rebuild the WTC site projects in a respectable time frame (so the fat salaries look bad), and seemingly towards giving at least one airport tenant a free pass on a recently passed labor harmony/employee retention policy (which just makes me angry) and turns out fully one sixth of Port Authority employees make upwards of $100 K a year.
The one caveat is that I think the outrage over police officers making over $100 K a year is distasteful. Why shouldn't someone who risks his or her life to save your ass make just as much as the bureaucrat who processes his paperwork?

Blacklisted for Being Anorexic and Innocent at University of Northern Colorado

The administration at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO has posted a list of "persona non-grata" at the University. These are people who are not allowed to step foot on campus and now have their faces thrown out on the web for violations such as being anorexic or not appearing for a campus disciplinary hearing at the advice of his lawyer for charges that were ultimately dropped.

Following the Virgina Tech tragedy, I am expect universities to be spending millions of dollars outfitting their campuses with expensive security devices, safe rooms, lockdown procedures -- and let us not forget security "consultants". Students are being blacklisted and publically humiliated by the same institutions that refuse to "reveal the identity" because of "privacy violations" for all sorts of other reasons" (from the Denver Post):

"This is a healthy discussion," [University President Kay] Norton wrote about reaction to the website. "However, we do not and will not talk about individuals who receive persona non grata orders."

While universities, including public universities, will spend millions of dollars each into the latest technology to assure that they are doing something. But, the most effective intervention would have been listening to his professors who notified authorities that they were concerned about his behavior and writings. But, that's not "sexy" or high-profile, so the impression of doing something is more important than actually doing something.