Truth is Stranger than Fiction

This is something I've suspected for years but never bothered looking up. College coaches make more than university presidents. Of course, you'll have to blame each institution's Board of Regents/Trustees for the drastic inequities.

For the record, the minutes of the July 15, 2008 Board of Regents meeting (the last ones available at the time of this entry) for NMSU show the salary and perquisites of our interim president: $300,000, an automobile to be used "primarily for university purposes," and reimbursement of "reasonable entertainment, travel, and other expenses incurred by her, including country club expenses as is normal by the president." (Emphasis mine.)

Other than the obvious question of who decides what is "primarily" and "reasonable", I wonder why country club expenses are "normal", when you consider that the university has its own golf course. Shouldn't the president play there?