By Katie Lannan, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
For $219,000, Kean University administrators got not only a custom multi-media conference table, but also a good deal of controversy.
The purchase of the table has puzzled students, drawn criticism from lawmakers, garnered national attention and even spawned a parody Twitter account that satirically brags about the table’s famous “relatives,” like the desk in the Oval Office.
A student-led online petition launched Wednesday calls on the school’s Board of Trustees to fire university President Dawood Farahi, pointing to the table purchase and past controversies. The petition had nearly 200 signatures as of 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Kean junior Kelly Tomas, who wrote the petition, calls it a “baby step” intended to get people thinking.
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