Oh my, poor Dan! Was kind of a nice guy back in his reporter days for FOX 5 as I recall. Wonder what kind of horrible things he's been doing over these past few years to deserve this bummer of an appointment.

not sure why Prez Ashley gets the discounted rate for a personal event.

I can't believe this joker's name keeps coming up as a VP candidate. If Obama picks him, then the vetting process has failed completely. It doesn't often come out in the media but let's just say he has rampant John Edwards-type issues, and is known as a 'grabber' as well. Ick

Does this mean Chancellor Rogers won't accept my $25,000? Darn!

Um, no. Unfortunately I do know firsthand about these expenditures, and the physical reality of office expansion should be immediately evident to anyone who walks around the top floor of FDH. there was another staff office to the east of the president's suite, now it's part of the president's suite. He also has two computers, one for each office. Truth.

I think the desk expense would have paid for a full time faculty member, or perhaps 2 or 3 PTIs

Ok mr/ms truth. Also unreported? Ashley took over the office next door to his to create a working and a private office, and remodeled both to the tune of 75K or maybe more. Why do you think the Sun wasn't allowed to take photos. Funny because with the little time the guy is actually on campus he probably doesn't need one office, let alone two. And don't YA THINK that UNLV paid to ship his personal albeit collosal conference table from cali to nevada?