University of Vermont President Marlene Tromp silent on dorm squalor while she lives with her entire family in ‘free’ campus housing.
By Ted Cohen
While UVM’s president has a free pass to move her entire family and ex-husband into a millionaire paid-for mansion, students in the dorms are dealing with leaking roofs and broken pipes as well as dangerous unhealthy mold.
Marlene Tromp lives in the university’s presidential mansion with her adult son, her adult sister and her former husband.
Tromp goes all over campus making small talk with anybody and everybody but there’s one thing she won’t discuss – her glitzy living arrangements.
A letter to a weekly paper questioning Tromp’s ‘free’ family public housing prompted cries of unfair treatment from her fam club aka fan club.
How dare anyone question her living in palatial elegance while students in the dorms are paying an arm and a leg to live in squalor.
Students can’t get an answer from UVM administration as to why the dorms are in such poor condition.
But that same administration is just fine thank you letting Tromp live high off the hog on campus in Englesby House with her entire family and ex-husband.
Tromp, 59, was vaguely described by the latest edition of the school’s alumni magazine as cohabiting in her fancy digs “with her adult son and other family members.”
The maggie is afraid to get any more specific lest anyone compare her luxurious living conditions to the students living in expensive UVM-run cold-water flats.
The members of the administration aren’t the only ones keeping wraps on the scandal.
The UVM student newspaper, The Cynic, won’t touch the subject.
The question is: Why?