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re: Opinion: Privatize several public LA universities
Posted on 3/30/15 at 5:13 pm to CarRamrod
Posted on 3/30/15 at 5:13 pm to CarRamrod
I went to tech and there's two drive thru liquor stores that were less than a mile from my house. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Eta: one of them shown in my avatar
Eta: one of them shown in my avatar
This post was edited on 3/30/15 at 5:16 pm
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Posted on 3/30/15 at 10:30 pm to Rabbs and QStick
Is Wil-Mart still open?
Posted on 3/30/15 at 10:57 pm to Upperdecker
1. Close Southern and Grambling today. Immediate savings.
2. Merge Tech with ULM
3. Merge NWSU with LSUS
4. Scale back Nicholls and SLU to CCs. Give BRCC Southern's campus.
2. Merge Tech with ULM
3. Merge NWSU with LSUS
4. Scale back Nicholls and SLU to CCs. Give BRCC Southern's campus.
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:00 pm to LSU_Saints_Hornets
quote:
we need the bayou classic.
Please tell me how we need that? How do we need ppl grilling in the bathrooms of hotels?
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:02 pm to WeeWee
quote:don't argue with strong safety you fricking racistquote:Please tell me how we need that
we need the bayou classic
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:02 pm to CarRamrod
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CarRamrod
You've obviously never been to Ruston.
There are 3 drive through liquor stores (at least there were when I was there) that are within 400 yards of each other. There are some tighter restrictions than in SLA, but it's not a dry parish.
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:37 pm to upgrayedd
The people at Hayride are the same people who cheered Piyush into office. The same who desperately want to implement some form of damage control, who desperately look for some spin to put on the utter failure of the Jindal/Norquist administration's tenure in Baton Rouge.
frick these people, and frick privatizing the schools that belong to the people of this State. All of their contributors put together couldn't tie Bob Mann's shoe.
frick these people, and frick privatizing the schools that belong to the people of this State. All of their contributors put together couldn't tie Bob Mann's shoe.
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:38 pm to Upperdecker
I don't know what that we need to close any per se, except for the obvious mergers: SUNO-UNO (SUNO is a segregationist school and has no historical significance); La Tech -Monroe-Grambling.
But for sure, all graduate programs should cease at McNeese, Nichols, NW State and SELU, except for teaching, a cash cow like MBA or anything that is fully funded from private sources. NO more PhDs.
Even Tech, UNO and ULL should be limited in PhD programs...no duplication between them. Dole the PhDs out between the 3.
CC education should be expanded to encourage anyone below ACT 23 to start at CC for 2 years. Then the Universities need to get over themselves and accept, seamlessly, the 2 year CC degree and place those students as edit Juniors (The arrogance of schools like Nichols state re CC courses is beyond belief - worse than LSU's).
But for sure, all graduate programs should cease at McNeese, Nichols, NW State and SELU, except for teaching, a cash cow like MBA or anything that is fully funded from private sources. NO more PhDs.
Even Tech, UNO and ULL should be limited in PhD programs...no duplication between them. Dole the PhDs out between the 3.
CC education should be expanded to encourage anyone below ACT 23 to start at CC for 2 years. Then the Universities need to get over themselves and accept, seamlessly, the 2 year CC degree and place those students as edit Juniors (The arrogance of schools like Nichols state re CC courses is beyond belief - worse than LSU's).
This post was edited on 3/31/15 at 7:32 am
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:41 pm to Acadien
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frick these people, and frick privatizing the schools that belong to the people of this State
You mean the schools that are bankrupting the people of this state and failing the people of this state?
Posted on 3/30/15 at 11:44 pm to Overbrook
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I don't know what that we need to close any per se, except for the obvious mergers: SUNO-UNO (SUNO is a segregationist school and has no historical significance)
SUNO is the most obvious one, except it is now 'racist' to close a school which, as you pointed out, is segregated and has failed abysmally at graduating its students. Any attempts to usher its students into better performing, integrated schools will be impugned as 'racist.' That is the world we live in now.
Posted on 3/31/15 at 12:01 am to REG861
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You mean the schools that are bankrupting the people of this state and failing the people of this state?
Healthcare and education should be the #1 and #2 priority of any state government. The petro-economy isn't sustainable, and frankly it hasn't ever "worked" in Louisiana. When will we finally get sick of being #49 in every quantifiable category?
Posted on 3/31/15 at 12:06 am to Acadien
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Healthcare and education should be the #1 and #2 priority of any state government.
Then maybe we should stop stretching ourselves so thin when it comes to education. We have far more four year public universities than a state of our population needs. It's absurd. Didn't someone say we have more than the state of Florida?
Posted on 3/31/15 at 12:11 am to REG861
quote:I shudder to think what would happen if you dare suggest many of these students shouldn't attend college at all and would be better off in trade school
Any attempts to usher its students into better performing, integrated schools will be impugned as 'racist.
Posted on 3/31/15 at 1:00 am to Upperdecker
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There’s plenty of room to build a world class campus on the site of LSU-S and the surrounding area. The school should model itself after CalTech and MIT and become Louisiana’s public university that has an emphasis on science and technology.
Good luck doing that without a massive endowment already in place or a tremendous, multi-year investment from the state.
Quality science and technology programs aren't cheap. They're funded by world-class professors who can bring in large private and government grants, generous alumni donations, and (increasingly) wealthy international students who are willing to pay exorbitant amounts of tuition for degree prestige.
This post was edited on 3/31/15 at 1:02 am
Posted on 3/31/15 at 1:08 am to Slippy
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I grew up a few hundred yards from the LSUS campus, and my parents are still there. There is a LOT of empty space around that campus, particularly toward Bert Kouns. The actual central campus has a lot of unused space (parking lots go on forever) and could be more densely built. It could accomodate quite a few students. Put the dorms over by the hospital. It could be done easy peasy. But it will never happen.
There's not even close to enough space to add very much to that campus. You want to add more students, you're going to need that parking space. And where besides the soccer fields is there to put more buildings?
Posted on 3/31/15 at 1:52 am to WeeWee
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How do we need ppl grilling in the bathrooms of hotels?
Wait....what is the backstory behind this?
Posted on 3/31/15 at 7:09 am to Acadien
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Healthcare and education should be the #1 and #2 priority of any state government. The petro-economy isn't sustainable, and frankly it hasn't ever "worked" in Louisiana. When will we finally get sick of being #49 in every quantifiable category?
Workers of the World, Unite!
Posted on 3/31/15 at 7:26 am to goofball
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How do we need ppl grilling in the bathrooms of hotels?
Wait....what is the backstory behind this?
A few years back one of the hotels found its "guest" grilling in the bathroom. It is one of the common lines thrown around here during Bayou Classic week.
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