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re: What F. King Alexander Really Thought About Louisiana - Good stuff
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:23 pm to Notnac
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:23 pm to Notnac
LSU was a very diverse campus before he set foot on it
The problem with F King was he wanted to reduce admission requirements which is something LSU spend decades improving - that's where the pushback came from. It had nothing to do with diversity in admissions. F King wanted to lower the admission standards which would set back LSU even further.
This was from an old Tigerdroppings thread:
It appears F King Alexander wants to lower the admission standards currently in place at LSU. He wants to replace them with a "Holistic Process".
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Greater weight will be put on personal recommendations, student-written essays and outside activities, thereby opening LSU’s doors to students who test poorly but otherwise have good credentials.
Much of today's current high admission standards were put in place under Mark Emmert's tenure. This is raising the ire of members of the Board of Regents and alumni, and lots of newspaper editorials across the state have been critical of F King Alexander and his proposal. Maybe the Board of Regents and the LSU Board will decide to send him packing, and a new President will do the same with AD Joe Alleva.
The problem with F King was he wanted to reduce admission requirements which is something LSU spend decades improving - that's where the pushback came from. It had nothing to do with diversity in admissions. F King wanted to lower the admission standards which would set back LSU even further.
This was from an old Tigerdroppings thread:
It appears F King Alexander wants to lower the admission standards currently in place at LSU. He wants to replace them with a "Holistic Process".
quote:
Greater weight will be put on personal recommendations, student-written essays and outside activities, thereby opening LSU’s doors to students who test poorly but otherwise have good credentials.
Much of today's current high admission standards were put in place under Mark Emmert's tenure. This is raising the ire of members of the Board of Regents and alumni, and lots of newspaper editorials across the state have been critical of F King Alexander and his proposal. Maybe the Board of Regents and the LSU Board will decide to send him packing, and a new President will do the same with AD Joe Alleva.
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 1:29 pm
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Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:28 pm to Nature Boy
Hey Oregon you guys keep that dildo over there. He is a total waist. I hope he keeps his job, and he will butt ruin. that university in no time....
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:28 pm to cyarrr
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Can you elaborate on this?
Oregon has looked like a shite show this year. What are you basing this on?
I would argue that the south in general is actually less racist than the rest of the country.
Don’t feed the troll
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:37 pm to Nature Boy
Dude is a bitch.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 1:43 pm to Black n Gold
Everyone knows that guy was subhuman garbage.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 2:12 pm to Nature Boy
Oregon State and Oregon have separate boards .......... pot/kettle
Posted on 3/18/21 at 2:41 pm to Nature Boy
[quote]battling institutional racism from the “large segment” of the LSU community that did not want him to increase diversity on campus, [/
It's as if diversity in and of itself is something worth celebrating. Like everything else, quality matters.
It's as if diversity in and of itself is something worth celebrating. Like everything else, quality matters.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 2:54 pm to St Jean The Baptiste
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Oregon is more advanced than Louisiana, and there is more racism in Louisiana than Oregon.
Has Louisiana ever had laws that excluded black people from living there? Oregon has.
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:20 pm to Nature Boy
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institutional racism
I have no idea what this is
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:32 pm to Nature Boy
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Alexander recounted his seven-year tenure at LSU as one spent putting out fires on multiple fronts that included fighting massive state budget cuts, “shutting down for an entire year” the toxic Greek system, battling institutional racism from the “large segment” of the LSU community that did not want him to increase diversity on campus, and navigating a culture of ingrained politics that pushed back against efforts to consolidate powerful institutions within the LSU System.
That's actually a pretty accurate assessment of his tenure
Jindal budget cuts and the subsequent flipping of the revenue model at LSU
Greek Life caused several high profile lawsuits
I wouldn't call it racism but there was a HUGE backlash on holistic admissions
The governors meddle in LSU to suit his political agenda
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:34 pm to danilo
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institutional racism
I have no idea what this is
academic term for "The Man"....
and we all know "The Man" wants to keep black ppl down
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:35 pm to Tigeralum2008
And as a principled, scrupulous sort of guy, how did he handle this?
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:36 pm to Nature Boy
Member when the PAC wasn't going to play and he smugly said what they were seeing that the SEC wasn't seeing was "reality"?
That didn't age well.
I would also argue that FKing is the real racist because he believes the only way to diversify is by watering down standards.
That didn't age well.
I would also argue that FKing is the real racist because he believes the only way to diversify is by watering down standards.
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 3:50 pm
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:48 pm to 777Tiger
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And as a principled, scrupulous sort of guy, how did he handle this?
Terribly
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:51 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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I would also argye that FKing is the real racist because he believes the only way to diversify is by watering down standards.
LSU's last 3 freshman classes have all broken records for HS GPA and ACT scores. I'm sure the stats have been massaged but we will have to wait and see if those kids graduate on time in order to see if the new approach is working.
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:51 pm to St Jean The Baptiste
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Oregon is more advanced than Louisiana, and there is more racism in Louisiana than Oregon.
You need to listen to a little ditty named "Rednecks" by the great philosopher Randy Newman.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:53 pm to chryso
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He sounds racist.
He sounds gay.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 3:53 pm to Nature Boy
F. King
The F stands for FAILURE.
Dude blames everyone else for his mistakes and failures. When Alleva looks good with his decisions compared to you, then you are a total failure.
The F stands for FAILURE.
Dude blames everyone else for his mistakes and failures. When Alleva looks good with his decisions compared to you, then you are a total failure.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 4:02 pm to Nature Boy
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Whether the OSU board took the letter to heart, the six-man, six-woman board emerged two hours later from a closed-door meeting to say it still had questions about what happened at LSU. In the end, the board voted not to fire Alexander, but to put him on probation until June, while it continues to investigate issues at LSU and also watches to see how Alexander works to rebuild trust at OSU, where he has only been on the job nine months.
I wish someone had the spine to ask F. King Alexander the following questions. If you believe that the other elements that you were battling were responsible for the mismanagement of the situation. Then why didn't you, former athletic director Joe Alleva, and the board use CLM's behavior and the mismanagement of the sexual assault claims, etc fire CLM with cause at the end of the 2015 season? Why did you wait 10 months and the fire him and pay him millions of dollars in a buyout of his contract?
We all know that he cannot because he was busy ignoring or covering up those incidents and allegations. However, I would love to see that virtue signaling, hypocritical, and all around POS F. King Alexander try to answer those questions.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 6:12 pm to Nature Boy
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included fighting massive state budget cuts
valid point, but until we trim the number of universities, including traditionally black colleges, there will never be enough money
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“shutting down for an entire year” the toxic Greek system,
uh, He shut it down. For a year. How is that putting out a fire? He got exactly what he wanted. Weak sauce
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battling institutional racism from the “large segment” of the LSU community that did not want him to increase diversity on campus
lulz, resisting the reduction of admission standards to community college levels is not institutional racism. And it was most certainly opposed by a large segment. Which should be a clue that its a piss poor idea
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against efforts to consolidate powerful institutions within the LSU System.
Yeah, lets diversify LSU, but not have the balls to close black colleges that are draining the state budget. Cant have it both ways, homie
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