Greenwood points to political pressure

The UH president says she felt she had to keep Donovan on the payroll

By Ferd Lewis

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 25, 2012

~~<p>University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood said she felt political pressure to let then-athletic director Jim Donovan keep his job, but instead the school offered him a position that he had neither asked for, nor wanted, at an annual salary of $211,000 for three years.</p>
<p>Those revelations came amid six hours of intense and often contentious and contradictory testimony Monday before the state Senate Special Committee on Accountability that exposed dysfunction at the university going into and coming out of the Stevie Wonder concert fiasco.</p>
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University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood said she felt political pressure to let then-athletic director Jim Donovan keep his job, but instead the school offered him a position that he had neither asked for, nor wanted, at an annual salary of $211,000 for three years.

Those revelations came amid six hours of intense and often contentious and contradictory testimony Monday before the state Senate Special Committee on Accountability that exposed dysfunction at the university going into and coming out of the Stevie Wonder concert fiasco. Login for more...