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AlObamas highest paid educator is Coach Saban. Meanwhile, at Rutgers:
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Rutgers University paid Snooki, the bubbly Jersey Shore character, $32,000 to speak at the college, $2,000 more than it is paying Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation.

The New Jersey university's Programming Association booked Snooki for two question-and-answer sessions.

Snooki, whose real name is Nicole Polizzi, was paid out of the funds from mandatory student activity fees which undergraduates have to pay for their tuition.


Adham Abdel-Raouf, 18, from Alabama , said he thought the campus show was a bargain, considering Snooki’s popularity. 'Honestly, I thought they would have paid her more,' he said

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Some things never change. What we really need is a No CHild Left behind program for college football players, requiring them to graduate instead of just there to play semi-pro ball

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But in Tuscaloosa, which was desperate to return to national football prominence, Saban, 56, was a savior, welcomed with an open wallet. Saban, with his agent, James E. Sexton II, negotiated an eight-year, $32 million contract that was, at the time, the highest salary ever paid to a college coach. It remains among the highest and is bigger than all but a handful of NFL coaching salaries. His deal includes, among other perks, 25 hours of private use of a university airplane, two cars and a country club membership, extras that make his annual compensation closer to $5 million a year, estimates Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist. He can leave the school at any time without financial penalty, a rarity in big-time college coaching contracts.

All of which may overcome resentment from professors (average salary at Alabama: $116,000) of Saban's contract. Witt can also argue that not a penny of Saban's salary comes from either students or taxpayers. It comes from athletic department revenue, which consists of broadcasting fees, ad sponsorships, donations from "boosters" (alums who give to football, not the university's general fund), ticket sales and shoe and apparel endorsements.

"In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Alabama was last in everything--education, highway funding, progress in civil rights--the one thing people could take pride in was the success of the Alabama football team," says Paul Finebaum, a radio host and newspaper columnist in Birmingham.

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