When Governor Deval Patrick breezed into Roxbury Community College last Tuesday with $20 million in his pocket for the beleaguered school, Ricardo Canuto was 3 miles away, behind the counter at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Washington Street in Dorchester.
“I didn’t know he was going to be there,” said Canuto, a second-year student at RCC. “None of the students knew he was going to be there. It’s like they kept it a secret. If I knew, I would have gotten someone to work my shift and I would have tried to talk to the governor.”
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Unfortunately, maladministration at RCC is not new. It dates back to the institution's founding. Check the Globe's archives. Adninistration-faculty hijinks at RCC are cyclical. The students are always the losers. It seems successive state administrations never call for accountability or tough penalties for those for let events at RCC run out of control. A $20 million temporary fix is not the answer. Compare and contrast- why do things not run amok at Bunker Hill Community College across town.?