F. King Alexander: Good for LSU or Super Villain?

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LINK: Book says F.King a “super villain”

Which brings us to the key antagonist -- indeed, the super villain -- of our piece.

Fieldon King Alexander. A man who was not named he was titled. A man who, himself, chose to drop his first name and be called "King". King Alexander. That's the name he goes by. And that's all you need to know.

He's a giant tall man, six feet and many many more inches. In college he studied academic administration, which was the family profession. His father -- S. Kern Alexander -- was president of Murray State University in Kentucky from 1994 to 2001. Then the son -- F. King Alexander -- became President of Murray State, until his godfather, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed, brought King Alexander to CSULB as of December 2005, where everyone understood at the time that he would ultimately step into the Chancellor's shoes when Reed would retire.

So, Alexander is a classic case of privilege and inheritance and entitlement and lack of initiative. But, hold on before you gag, because this history gets worse.
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On the other hand, Alexander maintains his distance and has nothing to say you couldn't find in someone else's press release. Vapid would not be an inapt description. Pretender would be another. His only goals are not to be criticized or have unexpected situations develop. His only worry is that someone will take away everything he has that he never earned. So, this book will freak him out like nothing has ever done before.

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Alexander was born in Kentucky. He received a PhD in higher education administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a master's degree in educational studies/comparative education policy from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor's degree in political science from St. Lawrence University.

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It was announced on March 27, 2013, that Alexander would become president of the LSU system and chancellor of Louisiana State University A&M effective July 1, 2013.[9] Some criticism occurred over the way the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors had conducted its search to fill the position of president of LSU after John V. Lombardi had been fired from it under alleged influence by Governor Bobby Jindal and as Alexander was named the sole finalist for president of LSU. The decision was met with a unanimously negative vote of confidence by LSU's faculty senate against the LSU Board of Supervisors, but Board of Supervisors chair Hank Danos asserted that Alexander "was clearly the right guy for LSU."[10] The Faculty Senate's vote of no confidence in Alexander's hiring noted that Alexander had never been a tenured full professor at a major research university and that the graduation rates at CSULB were lower than those at LSU

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