DEAR EDITOR:

Despite saying he’d be willing to sit and speak with anyone willing to listen, neither I nor others in the Youngstown State University community wanting to know how Bill Johnson got to campus and how he got that big three-year contract have been invited to any sit-down.

Now into his fourth month as an unvetted and surreptitiously appointed “leader” by an equally clandestine board of “trustees,” who all appear to be AWOL. My suspicion is that the players, including Billy’s support staff, who are collectively worth yearly salaries of $319,360, are counting on the fact that like mass shootings, however egregious, the public will soon forget. But that’s not going to happen.

How on the backs of working students and their families can they be subjected to paying these salaries? And how can these various players not be willing to host a pre-announced open forum to address the many questions surrounding the deception? Guess we’ll just have to wait until a campus function presents itself for both Johnson and Peterson to be asked, and hopefully, answer these lingering questions. Until then, just like Billy’s political career, everything will be shrouded in obfuscation.

In a nutshell, Mr. Johnson has limited leadership and political skills, which, ironically, continue to ennoble an outward appearance of confidence. This superficial and vacuous level of pseudo-confidence is better known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Put simply and like many of Billy’s heroes in the MAGA tribe, incompetent people think they know more than they really do, and they tend to be more boastful about it.

Given president pro-tem Johnson’s extremely troubling childhood, one can readily see how a need to overcompensate for such trauma has, in fact, been the modus operandi of his entire existence. Unfortunately, the current position is merely a contrivance … spurious as it is.

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

TERRY CROGAN

Boardman