re: Serious questions about spending priorities at LSU.

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if you think academics and athletics are completely separate universes.

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Financially, they pretty much are.

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Do you care that there are academic buildings on campus with the ceilings caving in, that can be fully renovated for $15 million

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So you're an art student.

Listen up you dirty hippy, and put down the kool.

They have already approved your building. It was approved and plans were ready BEFORE you fricking clowns had your stupid little march recently.

The fact you blithering tarts have no concept of which you speak is even more depressing than the drivel you produce.

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Do things like faculty salaries even make a blip on your radar screen?

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what about them?

-I think LSU is not aggressive enough in raising funds to build their academic endowment and they don't have enough freedom to raise tuition and fees. I'm disgusted with their lack of focus on building their academics endowment as of late.

- I think more students- especially freshmen- should live on campus. That's not going to happen until much more is spent improving the campus housing options- especially engineering and science residential colleges.

- I think that athletics contribute greatly to the academic side at LSU and keeps alumni engaged for decades after graduation. If a $90 million stadium expansion enhances the cash cow, then it's probably worth it.

- I think it's unlikely that my children will attend LSU because my career has taken me out of state permanently, so I don't see myself as having a major stake in the school anymore.

too much waste for me to be concerned with budget problems

someone find that link that lists all the positions at lsu and we'll go through them and see what can be eliminated....wtf do some of these people even do?

My thoughts are TAF pays for all athletic stuff and gives $$$ to the school. Also good athletics mean more out of state students wanting to go to LSU. I am a little concerned with the cuts but that is a result of our retarded state constitution and the fact that we are wasting $$$ on the HBCU's.

I can put my students in a fricking barn. If the prof is good he can teach anywhere in any environment.

The process is only halfway done. Being an athletic powerhouse gives the university more national exposure and money than being a top tier academic school. Then we slowly increase the requirements for admission. The problem is, we can't do that yet because LA is 49 in education and it would force the locals to other state schools. Then we'd just be UT Baton Rouge. I do feel TAF needs to give more money to the school than they do. If the athletic foundation gave more to the university, then they will be able to afford teachers from good academic schools like yale, princeton, harvard, etc. and raise the standard of education.

LSU football is my life and nothing else matters. But I didn't go to LSU

Yes to all three.

Unless you moved here from Mississippi, you're giving your kid the shite end of the stick by educating them in Louisiana at all. Yes, there are exceptions to this, but they are just that, exceptions. You're lying to yourself if you can't admit that.

It's amazing LSU functions at all. I don't know what kind of shape LSU would be in without athletics, or if anyone who didn't have to, would attend LSU without athletics.