Vanessa Miller, The Gazette
October 22, 2015 | 11:29 am
IOWA CITY — One day after hundreds of University of Iowa faculty,
staff, students and community members packed the Board of Regents
meeting waving signs and shouting “resign” at board members, Regent
Subhash Sahai said certain aspects of the presidential search process
made him “angry” and “mad.”
Sahai, who made his comments during the second day of a two-day board meeting on the UI campus, said he wanted to address the protesters and the concerns that have been raised around the board’s appointment of J. Bruce Harreld as the university’s 21st president.
Sahai
stood by the selection but also said he didn’t know about
previously-undisclosed meetings Harreld had with five other regents
before the application deadline and was “sad about this revelation.”
His exact words to board staff were, “I am pissed,” he said Thursday.
“I am being strong in these words because I love this place,” Sahai said.
