<p>Please give your mindless spiel elsewhere. First, this is a dead topic. Second, you’re late on the issue since the plan to hire outside consultants was announced sometime in Novemeber 2009 as shown by the article [url=<a href=“http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/remarks/11-15-09-NYTimes.pdf]here[/url”>http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/remarks/11-15-09-NYTimes.pdf]here[/url</a>]. Third, consulting firms exist because they provide a valuable service. If the Chancellor didn’t think the consultants could save the university far more than $3 million, he wouldn’t have hired them.</p>